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What would happen if Microsoft redesigned the iPod box?

Category: Humor
Posted on: February 28, 2006 5:58 PM, by Orac

Although the images used are a bit out of date (for one thing, that looks like a first generation iPod on the box), this video is spot on hilarious.

Pray this never happens...

Comments

Oh yeah. I worked for a short stint at Microsoft Studios, their in-house video production facility, and I had to do some of those very type of graphics for a promo video. You have no idea how right you are when you say, "spot on."

Indeed, let's hope this never, ever happens.

Posted by: Jeff Knapp | February 28, 2006 6:38 PM

thanks for the smile.
offtopic:

That is the second time (in relatively short time ) that the RSS feed of your journal produces illegal html in livejournal - first time it merely produced an ugly " incorrigible HTML erro here is the raw feed " error - which is ugly but readable if one can read HTML this time however - this little posts feeed messed up my page layout to the point where posts just before yours became illegible. That is obviously calling for a remedy. Currently I took you of from my subscription list ( what LJ mistakenly call 'friendslist' ) and just hope I will remember to look up your page occasionally - however there is the hope tht this is an after effect of the recent problems and can be rectified on your end.
Thanks.

Posted by: A. Schaefer | March 1, 2006 5:10 AM

Tis funny because its true. Worked at companies fulltime as well as freelance as an artist and dtp grunt. Man, nobody in marketing ever listens to good advice.

You think office dorks in America are annoying? Try Malaysia, watch how they get all huffy when I tell 'em the design stinks.

Posted by: Norman | March 4, 2006 4:06 AM

I think the iPod and other media players is severely overpriced and overated

Science Tips

Posted by: DemosSoft | August 18, 2006 12:44 AM