Please, tell me this is a joke....

[oneirophrenia]

The iPod Flea

It's, like, a TicTac that holds one mp3 song.

I am pretty sure the QuickTime vid linked from the above Gizmodo site is a parody--which is freakin' great. But...at the same time...what if it's real?

If this Flea thing isn't just a clever jape on Apple, then Apple has completely lost its fucking mind. Who in their right gourd is going to shell out Apple prices for something that can store one single song and is small enough to very easily lose, swallow, or jam up your sphincter?

UPDATE: Oh, wait--it IS a parody! In that case, it's funny as hell. :)

Comments

[blackcatbon.livejournal.com]

baaad idea

because...

welll...

you know what they say about mp3s

you cant eat just one:)

*CHOMP*
*BROKEN TOOTH*
*EEEEEK!*

[shad0ws.livejournal.com]

a) i'm sure it's a parody.

but.. b) if you really think about it, the iPod Shuffle was one of the best business moves Apple could have made. yes, it's a stupid, small-capacity, interface-disaster of a player. but it also effectively worked to keep regular iPod prices exactly where they are in spite of both their time on the market and their competition. maybe you or i wouldn't buy one, but apparently there are plenty of morons out there who would...

no, Apple hasn't lost it's mind. it's just making everyone think that, while they've been slowly gaining a significant edge in multiple markets.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Does the shuffle work as a flash stick for general data though? I thought it only worked to play music files...

[eolh.livejournal.com]

The iPod Shuffle is targeted at the pop music audience that for whatever reason want to build their own radio station rather than listen to albums. Think about it -- you can fit just about as many songs on it as you're likely to hear on a pop station over the course of the day, and it plays them in a pseudo-random mix.

I'm not sure about it being designed to keep the prices up on the regular iPods. If prices could be lower, their direct competiton (iRiver, Samsung, Creative Labs, Memorex, etc.) would be lowering their prices to try to get the edge on the market. Instead, they're all running about neck-and-neck with Apple and each other, and Apple is trouncing them through marketing and branding. Instead, I think it's designed to compete in the market with other low-end mp3 players, where they didn't have a product before.