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iPod Rocks...No More? |
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 Hey remember that iPod Rocks Website that was launched a few months before Christmas to entice youngsters to beg and plead to their parents to buy them an iPod for Christmas? If you answered yes, then kudos to you, you're an intelligent and informed Machead of the 1st Degree. You're also very attractive and you smell like fresh laundry. If you answered no, well then ... we'll just have our trained lackey Mungo show you out the back door [Whispers under his breath to Mungo: "Make sure they don't find the body"].
Now that everyone's on the same page, if you go to the iPod rocks site now, you'll find that the domain goes right to Apple's home page. (Just like mammals.org, imac.com and a bunch of other domain names that elude me right now)
Is this a sign that Apple has given up on attracting today's youth? Why has the site gone the way of OS 9, the dodo, and your car keys? Some folks at Apple had obviously spent a lot of time on the site: it had cool flash movies where you could change the background and the soundtrack, e-cards, all sorts of cool info about the iPod, even ways for teens to convince their parents to get them Podified. Wouldn't it stand to reason that Apple would let the site stay up year-round, if not for Christmas gift-giving season, maybe for lesser events like birthdays, Arbor Day, No Pants Day, or Steve's Keynote Day?
There has to be an explanation for why Apple would pull the plug on this site. Maybe it was doing too well, and parents were going bankrupt buying iPods for their kids, so the parents banded together forming Parents Against iPod Rocks (PAIR) and sued Apple, forcing a removal of the site. Or maybe kids nationwide were turned into Pod Zombies, ignoring schoolwork and even (perish the thought) videogames, so Apple killed the site in an act of goodwill towards man. Perhaps Bill Gates has something on Steve Jobs (like he once ate a steak with him or (* gasp *) used Windows) and blackmailed him into removing the site. Who knows, maybe the iTunes Music Store started using so much bandwidth that Apple had to let some sites go, and iPodrocks.com drew the short straw.
Actually, there's I'm sure there's a much less goofy explanation. Apple probably just decided that iPod is selling itself right now. Everyone knows what it is, and everyone wants one (well, except for some of the folks Mungo escorted out back). Apple doesn't need to have a site that more or less forces the issue, and besides, it not their style.
On second thought, maybe a wild Ballmer rampaged through Apple HQ one day, deluging the Web server housing iPodRocks.com with buckets of sweat, thereby knocking it offline and destroying all the pages. And Apple forgot to back up. Tsk, tsk, Apple, you should know better. |
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March 19 2004, 12:38 PM EDT, by
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Comments:
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| Fuzzmanmatt |
3/19/04, 6:09 PM EDT |
I hated the site. But I have dial-up, and I'm lucky to connect at 28.8. Ten years I've been downloading music at this speed.....
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| okcalla |
3/19/04, 6:21 PM EDT |
ummm what???? the dial up thing has nothing to do with anything!!!
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| mike |
3/22/04, 3:05 PM EDT |
if you want access to the site, just get to it from google.com
All you have to do is type ipodrocks and then look for the page that has a direct link to ipodrocks.com and then click on the cached page option that google provides!! Google ROCKS!
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| daver |
3/23/04, 1:56 AM EDT |
maybe it wasn't getting any hits. is there a way to find this out?
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| stickman67 |
3/23/04, 7:01 PM EDT |
More cutting-edge news from Jonahan.
There's no two ways about it, Big J -- you have an eye for sore sites!
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| sweetjimmyhugs |
3/24/04, 7:42 AM EDT |
... and the pants to match!
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| Jonahan |
3/25/04, 12:05 PM EDT |
Hey, without 2GAMAAW's hard-hitting, incisive journalism, where would we be? Probly in a hot tub sipping pina coladas with a bevy of beautiful women and for some reason Vern Troyer.
Now who wants that, honestly?
Oh... yeah, probably every hot-blooded male in the world and most of the lesbians. Nevermind.
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| Jonahan |
3/25/04, 12:06 PM EDT |
daver: no way that I know of.
okcalla: it was a pretty flash-heavy site, that took a while to load. I know I wouldn't want to mess with it on dial-up.
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| stickman67 |
3/26/04, 5:18 AM EDT |
Could you make mine a beer? Pina coladas give me a nasty rash on the ... Just get me a beer, will ya!
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