Gateway Rips off Apple

jimsowden

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 25, 2004

• #1

I was looking at the gateway site, just to see what the competition was up to, and came across this ad for the Gateway iPod ripoff, thats exactly the one apple has:

 

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Sun Baked

macrumors G5

• Feb 25, 2004

• #2

This is an "exact" ripoff...

Since when is the iPod advertised as a FM Tuner/Voice Recorder/Storage/Jukebox unit?

 

jimsowden

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Feb 25, 2004

• #3

I've been trying to find that apple ad this rips off, but I can't really. It said Carry a tune, or 10,000

 

bennetsaysargh

macrumors 68020

• Feb 25, 2004

• #4

it seems that a lot of companies are doing the same thing, but the only thing i've seen that takes on the iPod is the dell digital jukebox because on their commercial, they have a little things in the top left saying up to twice the battery life of the ipod. at least it's something to that degree.

 

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rikers_mailbox

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 25, 2004

• #5

Originally posted by jimsowden
I've been trying to find that apple ad this rips off, but I can't really. It said Carry a tune, or 10,000

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I remember that Apple ad. . .

there's nothing worse than being unoriginal. Isn't Gateway really hurting these days? Looks like they're trying to get all the help they can.

-rik

 

Sun Baked

macrumors G5

• Feb 25, 2004

• #6

Oh, they are copying Apple's advertising.

My mistake...

 

fartheststar

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 25, 2004

• #7

So how can the 20 gb iPod hold only 5000 tunes but the Gateway one can hold 8000?

Does that mean that the gateway 40 gig (if one exists) can hold 16000 songs while the apple one only holds 10000?

😀

(said dripping with sarchasm).

Maybe the Gateway users have shorter attention spans and therefore listen to shorter songs.

 

Phatpat

macrumors 6502a

• Feb 25, 2004

• #8

Looks a lot more like a rip off of dell's mp3 player than the iPod 🙄

 

invaLPsion

macrumors 65816

• Feb 25, 2004

• #9

Originally posted by fartheststar
So how can the 20 gb iPod hold only 5000 tunes but the Gateway one can hold 8000?

Does that mean that the gateway 40 gig (if one exists) can hold 16000 songs while the apple one only holds 10000?

😀

(said dripping with sarchasm).

Maybe the Gateway users have shorter attention spans and therefore listen to shorter songs.

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Those songs are 2 minutes long a 64 bit MP3...Duh.😉 😛