if i see that u2 ipod commercial just one more time, so help me god..

[frylock]

the fuggin' remote is going through the TV. I was giving serious consideration into buying an iPod, but seeing this commercial for the quatorce-hundredth time over the last couple of weeks has driven me to research their competition's players.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I thought you were gonna say...

...I'll rush right out and buy one.

[name not needed]

2. I'm gonna buy the U2 iPod out of spite

:)

[frylock]

5. bastardo!!!

:evilgrin:

[terrya]

3. It's just U2 selling out. Kind of sad, eh?

But I agree...it's on very heavy rotation.

[DS1]

4. YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! - so unbecoming of U2

[Deja Q]

6. My Palm PDA allows me to play MP3s. iPod is an iWaste of myMoney and

U2 selling out is not exactly earthshattering news. :-(

[frylock]

7. iPod is an iWaste..

dude, that is freakin' hilarious. I use that same language when speaking with my Mac iPeeps!!

[maxudargo]

8. I don't understand the iPod thing

Aren't they like $300 and big like a hand calculator or something?

I have a little Creative MP3 player that is about the size, shape and weight of a cigarette lighter. In fact, it is smaller than most cigarette lighters. It has no moving parts - no disc, just flash memory - so it can't skip. I have about 40 songs on it and there is plenty of room for more. I can put other kinds of files on it too, for transport. It plugs into any USB port and the computer sees it as an additional disc drive - you can drag and drop files easily from your computer to the player and back. It uses a single AAA battery. It cost me $120.

I go to the gym and listen to my own music instead of the gawd-awful hip-hop they always play. It fits inside my shirt pocket. In fact, I could fit two of them side by side in my shirt pocket.

Why buy an iPod?

[GCP]

10. Well, maybe the fact that it can hold 5000 songs

as opposed to your 40?

[maxudargo]

11. Well, if you need that many

I'm sure my player could hold 50 or 60, and that's plenty for me. I store my songs on my computer and drop the songs I want to listen to into the player. There are only so many of my songs appropriate for an energetic gym workout. I'm sure that's the case with any situation where I would be listening to the player - I'm only going to want to listen to a subset of my whole MP3 library. Why would I need 5,000 songs to choose from? I plan better than that.

[GCP]

13. We have different playlists on our iPod

Play anything we like whenever we like. I could tell you more but obviously you're not interested. Google iTrip sometime.

Like here: http://www.buy.com/retail/product_jump.asp?sku=10348568&SearchEngine=Froogle&SearchTerm=10348568&Type=PE&Category=Comp&dcaid=17379

[SmileyBoy]

9. Bono sings "One Two Three Fourteen" at the beginning.

He doesn't know Spanish.

[name not needed]

12. Not quite

He was referring to the guy who produced U2's first, second, third, and fourteenth albums, I think.

[dolo amber]

14. I'm having the same issue with

the Macy Gray/Walkman "Walk This Way" ...that song is rubbish enough without her nails-on-a-chalkboard squawk...x(