Has the iPod backlash begun? Consider this email from a Curbed reader in Tribeca:
What’s up with all those “iPods Lick Balls” stickers (Black Square with White Arial Font) that I’m seeing in Tribeca? I ripped one down and the next week there was another one up. Is this marketing genius from Sony or Rio?
Curbed has posted a photo of one of the stickers plastered on a light pole here.
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps Apple is using guerilla marketing for the stealth introduction of a new iPod feature?
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Hmmm, can’t wait to see what _that_ new feature would be like…. The imagination reels!
Apple once again gives the consumers what they want…
Warning: do not select the new “lick balls” feature while charging.
Gee… what button combination do you have to press for that feature?
The full thing says that the stickers were realy easy to peal off.
Makes you wonder….
I’m waiting to buy my next ipod becasue I heard the G6 will have Suck Balls & Lick Anus features.
It’s not an Apple feature, it’s a new Griffin add-on, the iLick. It will come in two versions, a white one and a black one (for the U2 iPod) but the artificial tongues will be pink on both.
another campaign headed up by the ballmer/thurott/enderle group, i suppose..
you know, this could just be something to get people to look for the word “ipod” on the internet, I mean, if you saw stickers everywhere that said “Nowers suck! Don’t buy any! They just want you to think that they are cool!”, you would do a google search for nowers (a made up word, i think) as soon as you got home.
I think I liked the hooded figure with the arms and wires standing on a box better.
maybe these stickers are from those lost souls who think that the Dell DJ is the better. or one of the other players, or this group is upset that Apple is achieving over MS.
The consensus at Engadget is that the image is Photoshopped:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/9276274415216939/
New campaign slogan, “Licks Anywhere”?
I think it should say “iPods lick Ballmer” as in they’ve got MS’s Steve Ballmer beat.
Looks like Bill Gates, Ballmer, Thurrott et al have been busy at the weekends printing off these stickers on their A4 inkjet printers!
Ive always wondered what the CEO of Microsoft does at weekends – now we know!
He gets his ipod to lick his balls!
(amazing it can find them really – because everyone knows he aint got any!)
LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
The latest joke, coming out of Redmond.. can be found.. Over Here…
A word of caution…. dont be drinking something over your keyboard as you read this …
Actually, the next generation iPods will lick balls. Priced at $499, the special ball licking iPods will not only be a fashion statement, but will also help thousands off lonely single guys around the world!
In other news, my Hotmail account has been upgraded to 250MB.
10,000 licks in your pocket!
Maybe is a Rolling Stones iPod, Thousand Licks edition
Slow news day, MDN?
MDN does innuendo — LOL!
“I think I liked the hooded figure with the arms and wires standing on a box better.”
hmmm. then why are you not in iraq fighting for Haliburton profits and killing babies?
coward.
Should be “iPods suck the Life out of your pocket book”
“It’s not an Apple feature, it’s a new Griffin add-on, the iLick. It will come in two versions, a white one and a black one (for the U2 iPod) but the artificial tongues will be pink on both.”
I think I saw the prototype to this on So Graham Norton. He gave a battery operated one to Joan Collins.
You guys are so rude. No wonder I like it here.
This is the freedom of choice, now we know that the majority thinks that iPods are balls licker. We too believe so.
Hey Apple, stop licking my balls and stop messing with my ipod.
Real Networkds
#1. I wonder what the battery life would be with that function enabled?
#2. I’m very surprised that Mac Beth hasn’t commented on this!
No surprise, the iPod looks gay.
Karl Rove is behind this
Put me down for two.
The full thing says that the stickers were realy easy to peal off.
Makes you wonder…. – username
Yeah, the signal from my tinfoil hat says that Microsoft is behind this. IIRC, they used stickers that are easily peeled off during the MSN butterfly controversy.
#2. I’m very surprised that Mac Beth hasn’t commented on this! – twilightmoon@mac.com
She is still smarting because there is no version for female iPod users.
prob just a reaction to the Apple rating itself five stars.
funny.
Who cares. It’s a troll picture just like Enderle and Thurdot articles(however you spell their names).
as opposed to microsoft’s “sucks for sure” campaign.
Licking balls is quite arousing; licking same balls while listening to my iPod mini is orgasmic As for my bf, he is none the wiser *grin*
If you follow the links you will see this is more of a rant about artist compensation from the iTMS. I have only one thing to say about the whole issue- nobody made you take a raw deal from a record company.
We live in a time when anyone can, with minimal investment, set up a home studio and produce their own recordings. With CD replication services easily available anyone can manufacture mass numbers of CDs at low cost. Add iTunes being opened up to independent artists and there is NO ISSUE HERE.
Free Enterprise allows anyone who is willing to assume the risk to OWN their own recordings and the full profits that go with the risk. If an artist or band wishes to let a record company assume the risk and develop/promote for a large share of the profit that’s not Apple’s or the consumer’s problem.
Welcome to the U.S.A.-assume the risk and reap the reward, share the risk and split the profits. It’s nothing new.
That is an unsupported feature, and should not be attempted by an amateur.
Okay, I realize I am totally not playing the game here. But am I the only one that thinks this is a mediocre piece of Photoshop work on the picture. Of course, with a web photo is hard to tell, but really, look at it. Still, “iPods Lick Balls” is such an odd “insult”, it almost has to be real. Maybe it is a cultural thing?
Why is that dog lickin’ it’s balls?
Because it can.
That’s the subliminal message here.
Apple, because it can.
Not playing and I agree with Duane, it’s a mediocre ploy using Photoshop. Also it doesn’t make sense, the size, wording…… just someone trying to get attention.
if it can lick balls, it definitely can lick pussy too! i don’t think it will be programmed to discriminate. it will have been designed to just lick. now there’s just one more reason not to leave the house.
soon you will see underwear manufacturers come out with their ipod verson undies. ones that come with a pouch that holds the ipod so you can have 15 hours of nonstop ball licking pleasure wherever you go.
TO JENNA:
I ENVY YOUR BOYFRIEND. WHAT A LUCKY BASTARD!!! JENNA, YOUR LAST NAME DOESNT HAPPEN TO BUSH, IS IT?
All this talk about ball-licking just got me aroused.
I’ll see all in 5.
Sorry guys, this photo is real, for whatever that’s worth. Whoever took the picture has posted the full res (non Photoshopped) version on his or her website:
That doesn’t mean he or she didn’t put the sticker there and then take the photo, but it’s not a fake photo.
Eric:
Too much information, bro.
what the hell does MicroSoft lick ? There’s a lot more of them than iPod users.
Why is that dog lickin’ it’s balls?
Because it can.
That’s the subliminal message here.
Apple, because it can. —-
Ah, so this message is said out of love. Very subliminal way of saying it.
Hmm, looks like the morons who vandalized all those candidate signs during the presidential campaigns have apparently found new work.
So they think iPod licks. Have a cookie. Either use it or build a better product; grassroots campaigns this stupid benefit nobody.
Eric: God no, my last name is not Bush (and have none either *grin*)
Say what you will with these ads (whether real or not) it creates more buzz for the iPod. All that’s needed is for a potential customer to see an iPod up close and hopefully they’re hooked.
Jenna
ps: Thank a Veteran if you have the chance!
Found this video of the new iSuck which is being released just in time for the Christmas season.
http://kaktuz.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=391&mode;=&order=0&thold=0
New motto: “Lick different”.
Hey great news! I need one of those. Now I can finally get some.
I want one balls licking iPod!
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Then I can drop my expensive boyfriend and be single again
Jenna: Care to prove it?
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Jason, we’d be getting off….topic
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Not really a big deal – somebody having fun. It’s not a MS conspiracy. Stickers like this pop up all over the place here in NYC. It’s been a growing attitude torward iPods here, in coversation, as well as weekly mags like Time Out New York – iPod zombies that can’t be bothered with public interaction.
You see a lot of white earbuds everyday and some people find it mildly annoying; like when everyone is wearing the same jeans (Seven) or bopping around in the same shoes (UGG boots anyone?) and if you like this sort of funny social commentary you should move to a major metropolitan area, it’s fun.
Midcap’s post is so irrationally apathetic towards anything weird or different, I suspect red-state syndrome… Probably thought the iPod was stupid too. Do you ever do anything fun?
I still have my 1st gen 5gig… Do the new ones REALLY lick balls?
Jenna: I don’t care if we are off topic ; ) e-mail it to me and no one has to know ; ) Just click on my name and off it goes. Just between us : )