Apple not happy with ‘iGasm’ iPod sex toy advertising

“iPod-maker Apple is threatening to sue a sex shop over a vibrator that hooks up to an iPod and has similar advertising to that used in posters for the digital music player,” Simon Jary reports for PC Advisor.

Jary reports, “Apple is demanding that stores remove all posters for the gadget, called an iGasm. ‘We hope this request to remove it immediately will prevent us having to consider further action,’ said Apple lawyers.”

Jary reports, “The Ann Summers neon-pink ads feature a sexy woman with wires coming out of her iPod and into her knickers, teasing ‘ Go at it hard and fast with a pounding drum and bass track or chill with the ambient classic.'”

Full article here.

46 Comments

  1. What… no comment from MDN? ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”raspberry” style=”border:0;” />

    I think it might be interesting to see what our host thinks about this 😀

    Or does the MDN Magic Word (Well) have anything to do with it?

  2. BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HEE HOO HA HA HA HA AH HAH HA!!!
    hee hee, ohhhh…sniff….yeah it is a blatant ripoff, Apple definitely needs to go ahead and protect their intellectual HA HA HA HA OH THAT’S RICH AH HA HAH HA HA HA HA

  3. The Ann Summers company should be very careful not to pick a fight with Apple. Apart from the similarity between that advert and the iPod adverts, there is more than a passing resemblance between the Ann Summers logo and Apple’s logo.

    I’m assured that the Ann Summers logo is intended to be a cherry with a bite taken out of it, but until I was told that, I always assumed it was an Apple.

  4. Too bad this is just a poster ad … I’d love to see the video for this one on YouTube ! ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”LOL” style=”border:0;” />

    Chrissy … I’m glad I put the coffee cup down before reading your posts !

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