iPod Socks
Yesterday brought us the hideous u2 ipod, the long-rumored ipod photo and itunes music stores in canada and many european countries, even hear in austria. Now i don’t care much for u2, viewing photos on a 2″ screen is not very appealing and i don’t buy drmed music on principle (though i have to confess that it’s hard to resist, especially with their great selection of audio books). What left me curious however was the announcement of “ipod socks” and after a solid five minutes of skimming over the usual mac news sites i finally found a small pic of an ipod sock (the one pictured above) @macminute, courtesy of cnet news, and there are a few more pics on the apple insider forums.
I think it’s save to say that apple finally jumped the shark with regards to ipods. First that forgettable ad campaign with black silhouettes on colorful backgrounds which wore thin far too fast, the cheap(er) packaging of 4g ipods, the introduction of photo ipods for no good reason and without compelling features (perhaps they just try to justify the color-screens?), the fugly u2 ipod and now ipod socks in 6 colors, packaged for just 30 bucks. When i first read about them before i’d seen any pictures i thought it was a joke. When i read about them on more and more sites i told myself “if anyone’s capable of pulling this off gracefully it’s apple’s design team”. When i saw the pictures all hope was lost.
Of course i expect them to be a huge success and i’ll most likely buy them anyway. I mean ipod socks! In 6 different colors! With apple logos! Which you could possibly use as faux wristbands!