Apple Announces Pink iPod nano

[pubb]

The guy is an industry pioneer. A multibillionaire. His actions have considerable impact on the worlds of technology, music, and movies. And you call him Stevo. He wouldn't even look at the spit he sends flying into your face if you walked up to him.

Pubb

Nuff of this silliness -- give us a new MBP pronto, Stevo!!!

 

[QuarterSwede]

Women (especially girls) will buy those like crazy. It's the number one request for a color at work believe it or not.

The guy is an industry pioneer. A multibillionaire. His actions have considerable impact on the worlds of technology, music, and movies. And you call him Stevo. He wouldn't even look at the spit he sends flying into your face if you walked up to him.

That being said, he is just a man like any of us.

 

[~Shard~]

The guy is an industry pioneer. A multibillionaire. His actions have considerable impact on the worlds of technology, music, and movies. And you call him Stevo. He wouldn't even look at the spit he sends flying into your face if you walked up to him.

Pubb

This just in! No one is allowed to add an "o" to the end of any multibillionaire industry pioneer's name. If they are not an industry pioneer who has billions of dollars however it is then perfectly acceptable to add an "o" to their name.

This new rule has been brought to you by Pubbo.

 

[Stridder44]

The guy is an industry pioneer. A multibillionaire. His actions have considerable impact on the worlds of technology, music, and movies. And you call him Stevo. He wouldn't even look at the spit he sends flying into your face if you walked up to him.

Pubb

And yet if I kicked him in the nuts he would still fall to the ground.

I'm assumin you were being sarcastic though

 

[killerrobot]

hmm this should have been done for something like project red but for breast cancer instead of aids...

And how much of each sale is being donated to Breast Cancer Research?

Thats the same question that comes in my mind. whether this valentine product would contributes something to the Breast Cancer Research? Just my two cents .

I agree that if they did some combination with Breast Cancer or some other charity that would of been great.

+10 (I skipped a few people's quotes)
I think it would have really promoted the sale of the pink even more because then you get an ipod AND help out.
Now you just get an ipod (I can´t believe Apple's marketing blew this opportunity.)

 

[lazyrighteye]

While it appears pink is trending downward (was smoldering the past 3 years), I have a feeling these will still fly off the shelves.
And who knows - maybe Apple will revive pink.
Weird.

 

[Brianstorm91]

No blimmin' MBP though is there

 

[whatever]

I agree that if they did some combination with Breast Cancer or some other charity that would of been great. I cannot see this being as popular as the red one but I like that they are meeting some demands of customers.

Are you kidding me! This will be the most popular selling iPod of the year.

How many parents will give this Pink iPod Nano to their daughters on Valentines day alone!

As far as giving money to Breast Cancer, the whole pink thing (and Red) is not about raising money, but awareness of an issue. People are well aware of breast cancer these days (it's not even a top five cause of death in the world).

Apple is a business and with the world economy sinking, they need to keep thinking about their bottom line.

A pink MacBook would also be huge. It would be one way to prevent brothers from stealing their sister's laptops (I hear that argument all of the time!).

 

[lazyrighteye]

+10 (I skipped a few people's quotes)
I think it would have really promoted the sale of the pink even more because then you get an ipod AND help out.
Now you just get an ipod (I can´t believe Apple's marketing blew this opportunity.)

Agreed with all that posted about linking the pink nano with Breast Cancer. I actually assumed there was a connection - much like the red nano & (Product) Red.

Huh... weird.*



* I now realize I have ended consecutive posts, in this thread, with "weird."
Leading me to believe this whole out-of-the-blue pink nano is just... plain... weird.

 

[whatever]

+10 (I skipped a few people's quotes)
I think it would have really promoted the sale of the pink even more because then you get an ipod AND help out.
Now you just get an ipod (I can´t believe Apple's marketing blew this opportunity.)

For starters they didn't miss out.

A Pink Nano will sell regardless.

Now the Project Red people approached Apple and other companies to participate and from what I heard they were very flexible. Now did the pink breast cancer people approach Apple and if so were they equally flexible?

The Project Red Nano is a branded product. However, that does not mean Apple can't say for Breast Cancer Awareness month, a percentage of Pink Nano sales goes to Breast Cancer. And then when the month is over they can stop. This can't be done with the Project Red Nano because again it's a branded product.

Also the color pink is associated with many things beyond Breast Cancer. For example the Pink Triangle (https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4810353&posted=1#post4810353) dates back to WW II when then the Germans would make gay men wear them in Concentration Camps and it is now a sense of gay pride, second only to the rainbow flag.

So in many ways it smart for Apple not to associate this color with any one group, since it has different meanings for different groups.

 

[inkswamp]

There was a pink nano i think, the older model....

She doesn't follow this stuff very closely, but she knows the difference between the older Nano and the newer (our daughter has one of the older ones) and she was insistent that it was the newer one.

 

[jouster]

The guy is an industry pioneer. A multibillionaire. His actions have considerable impact on the worlds of technology, music, and movies. And you call him Stevo. He wouldn't even look at the spit he sends flying into your face if you walked up to him.

Pubb

Classy.

 

[Quiara]

I'd like the pink more if it donated to Susan G Komen breast cancer foundation or something. Apple could go whole-hog socially responsible and release iPods with matching cause ribbons. ^_~

 

[SheriffParker]

She doesn't follow this stuff very closely, but she knows the difference between the older Nano and the newer (our daughter has one of the older ones) and she was insistent that it was the newer one.

Wow that would be really frustrating, trying to tell her she saw something else. My thoughts are with you...

As for the color, it looks alright to me. I bet it will be really popular.

 

[puckhead193]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8130/4.3.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

My friend Tara will. Be tempted to but one

 

[GrannySmith_G5]

This is the coolest thing I've seen in the last 20 seconds.

 

[killerrobot]

For starters they didn't miss out.

A Pink Nano will sell regardless.

For starters they did miss out.
I also never said it wouldn't sell. I said it would help it to sell - much like it helps sell a red iPod.

Also the color pink is associated with many things beyond Breast Cancer. For example the Pink Triangle (https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4810353&posted=1#post4810353) dates back to WW II when then the Germans would make gay men wear them in Concentration Camps and it is now a sense of gay pride, second only to the rainbow flag.

So in many ways it smart for Apple not to associate this color with any one group, since it has different meanings for different groups.

You kind of lost me with the pink symbology. So you're happy to say that pink represents WWII concentration camps?

Also just because breast cancer isn't a top 5 world killer doesn't mean no one shouldn't give a sh·$. HIV/AIDS wasn't always in the top five either.

And you're right, Apple is a business and should look at the bottom line. Hence them promoting themselves in a favorable way of helping out the world (either by going green or by helping HIV/AIDS or Breast Cancer projects) go a lot further in creating longterm customers than short term ones.

 

[Father Jack]

I suppose some will want it ...

 

[gkarris]

+10 (I skipped a few people's quotes)
I think it would have really promoted the sale of the pink even more because then you get an ipod AND help out.
Now you just get an ipod (I can´t believe Apple's marketing blew this opportunity.)

The Breast Cancer awareness package with the pink Nano was available only at Target. Check Target in a couple of weeks to see if they are offering this new one...

I assume in time for Valentine's Day...

 

[MacTO]

Pretty in pink...?

I'll stick with mine - handsome in silver!

Cheers!

 

[Tom B.]

I left that conversation convinced my wife was confusing what she saw for something else, but now this news today. I'm going to have to find out who exactly she was talking to at her workplace and why they apparently had an actual pink iPod Nano a week ahead of this announcement.

She doesn't follow this stuff very closely, but she knows the difference between the older Nano and the newer (our daughter has one of the older ones) and she was insistent that it was the newer one.

The red 3G nanos do look pink in the right lighting. Look at this red nano:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddiewong/1345268181/

 

[akm3]

Happy Singles' Awareness Day.

Grey would be the color
If I had an iPod

NIN reference FTW

 

[MikeTheC]

Do we really care if this product is involved in some kind of fund-raiser program? Of course, I also never got the whole (PRODUCT) thing, either.

 

[whatever]

For starters they did miss out.
I also never said it wouldn't sell. I said it would help it to sell - much like it helps sell a red iPod.



You kind of lost me with the pink symbology. So you're happy to say that pink represents WWII concentration camps?

Also just because breast cancer isn't a top 5 world killer doesn't mean no one shouldn't give a sh·$. HIV/AIDS wasn't always in the top five either.

And you're right, Apple is a business and should look at the bottom line. Hence them promoting themselves in a favorable way of helping out the world (either by going green or by helping HIV/AIDS or Breast Cancer projects) go a lot further in creating longterm customers than short term ones.

Sorry to have lost you, what I'm saying is that the color pink is widely used in the gay community (I didn't know this myself until I questioned a name of a new company).

And I'm not saying people shouldn't care about breast cancer either (and in fact I do, my Godmother was told that if this latest treatment works she will have a 6 months to year to live), it's just not the biggest killer (nor has ever been). The biggest problem with breast cancer was the lack of awareness that women had and that in many cases early detection would save the persons life. This awareness has been achieved.

Now if Apple really wanted to bring awareness to a disease it would be colon, rectum cancer and prostate cancer. More men die of these diseases due to lack of awareness (and also because most of use are to dumb/busy to go to the doctors until it's to late).

But wait if Apple really wanted to support a cancer charity why not Pancreatic cancer, since that's what Steve Jobs had a few years back.

My question you and everyone else, if you want to donate to a charity, why don't you do it on your own. Why is that people want something, an iPod Nano and then want the company selling it to give a cut to the charity. Here is a link NBCF, http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/give-hope/donate-online , and you can donate yourself. Sure you don't get an iPod, but you do get a nice tax deduction.

 

[Nick012]

I thought it said 'Pink Floyd iPod'. I nearly had a heart attack...