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merricksmile aka has been a member since August 20, 2004, has scored 423 submissions, giving an average score of 2.00.

Jun 23 '05 by merricksmile

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iRock (Reprise) / Bill Gates in on the Action

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Okay, as expected, my iRock shirt has developed a negative fan base. Hate comments are always fun to read and I share them with you now.

motorama, at 12:17pm on Jun 22, 2005
"iSTOLE. Steve Jobs paid a lot of money for this campaign--of course it's nice... "

-- iSTOLE :: well that's original too. next.

swingliner, at 5:01pm on Jun 19, 2005
"i don't think i get this at all. correct me if i'm wrong but basically you're using someone else's design and concept except you added a little word play?"

-- isn't that how spoofs work? it wouldn't be a spoof if the idea wasn't spun off another idea. next.

turkeymonkey, at 11:22pm on Jun 22, 2005
"what, am i an ad for ipod? i don't like this at all. very dated design."

-- this last one isn't so bad, but neither is it constructive. anyway, it's still ammusing.

Side note :: this made me crack up when i saw it.
www.iriver.com
www.iriveramerica.com
iRiver - it seems Microsoft is in on the iPod spoofs too.
I reckon hicks listen to mp3s down yonder river.

Pifman on Jun 23 '05 at 2:56pm

Umm.. well it's not like the bad comments just came out of nowhere. I too am not trying to give you a hard time, but you pretty much expected that type of response.

I have a feeling that your going to submit a pretty cool shirt in the near future.

merricksmile on Jun 23 '05 at 3:10pm

all good. hehehe. funny how microsof made the iRiver mp3 player though.

Pifman on Jun 23 '05 at 5:29pm

Are you sure it's made by Microsoft? Well whoever makes it, it's always bothered me that they just flat out ripped off the iPod name. Trying to ride their coat-tails.

merricksmile on Jun 23 '05 at 9:31pm

maybe you're right, i don't think microsoft itself developed the player but it's a proprietary media player for microsoft and promotes windows media formats

¥s on Jun 23 '05 at 9:47pm

most people dont even know the I in all of Apples products stands for Internet... and therefore often misplaced when ripped

merricksmile on Jun 23 '05 at 11:51pm

internet? funky. makes sense for iTunes. but iMac G4 its kinda funky. same with iPod. internet pod. would've been better if it meant 'intelligent' with the exception of iTunes.

littlem on Jun 24 '05 at 12:09am

actually it stand for idiot's: idiot's pod, idiot's Mac G4, etc etc.

I know, I'm an idiot. hahaha

xoxo

littlem on Jun 24 '05 at 12:09am

i'm sorry for polluting your blog.

Kallen on Jun 24 '05 at 12:13am

iRiver has been around as long as the ipod. At least they both came to my conscious awareness at the same time about 1.5 years ago

¥s on Jun 24 '05 at 12:20am

the iPod is almost 4 years old, the iRiver is a much later knock off

but it was actually the first iMac that sparked the hole era of ripoff iProducts

bottlesandcans on Jun 24 '05 at 12:51am

i just think you are stupid and i wish you were dea.

bottlesandcans on Jun 24 '05 at 12:51am

merricksmile on Jun 24 '05 at 2:26am

death wishes are fun.

Kallen on Jun 24 '05 at 3:41am

it's an i. who cares. iHOP has been around decades before iPOD. so what? adding a lowercase i is not copyright infringing. it's a lame attempt to copyright the alphabet.

swingliner on Jun 24 '05 at 4:06am

spoofs take the item out of context in a unique way. portraying something that is not expected of the subject. this doesn't do anything, it very well could be used for an ipod commercial. but then again.. there is such a thing as a bad spoof.

Pifman on Jun 24 '05 at 12:04pm

So wait, Ys, your saying that the iMac ripped off the whole i thing first? Cuz iMacs are made by apple. And they're the first ones to do the whole i thing.

Thus, ripping off themselves.

merricksmile on Jun 24 '05 at 2:31pm

i think what he's saying is that iRiver is the ripoff and Macintosh has all rights to use the iBlahblah on any other product they own such as iMac, iTunes, iPod

¥s on Jun 24 '05 at 3:48pm

well, im not syaing Apple own the right to use the iWhatever, just that they started it and soon the rest came along.

It's just funny how some makers of these products dont realize it stands for internet and put it in front of names of products with no relation with the internet or computers at all.

littlem on Jun 24 '05 at 4:12pm

ummm, no. not gonna do it again.

¥s on Jun 24 '05 at 4:25pm

iDiot

:þ

littlem on Jun 24 '05 at 4:36pm

:0)

MrDomino on Jun 24 '05 at 5:06pm

Uh, Creative had the Nomad a long time before Apple made the iPod. Not to mention that Rio had portable mp3 players before that.

The iRiver is owned and manufactured by iRiver, to the best of my knowledge there's no other stake in them. Apple is very good at marketing things as though they invented them, but in reality have not. Most of the time they also toss in a heaping helping of corporate cool and a hefty price tag. The iRiver plays more formats than the iPod, includes an FM tuner and costs less than an iPod of the same storage size.

Of course it's not as pretentious, nor does it have as talented an advertising team.

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