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Beats by Dre Debuts Special Edition Hello Kitty Headphones for 40th Anniversary
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johnnyturbouk
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Millions of Japanese teens - hello kitty is huge in Japan. Oh and also Avril Lavinge who now thinks she's a Japanese teen with that awful hello kitty song she did
One of my favorites.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0020.html
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And every 5yo needs $250 headphones.
They are. Furnishing headphones for sound as equivalent to Macdonalds for food. Billions served high salt, fat, questionable meat, etc.
johnnyturbouk
macrumors 68000
No Jonny Ive does that perfectly well alone. Beats was all about performing CPR on Apple's dwindling iTunes sales and releasing a subscription service to compete with Spotify
As the father of 4 daughters, 
I think they will love these kinds of things!
I just want to see the athletes getting fined for these, now.
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How do these take that street cred away?
I think they will love these kinds of things!
I just want to see the athletes getting fined for these, now.
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How do these take that street cred away?
The only interest I have in this story is making sure my 7-year-old daughter never sees it, or I will be a much poorer man than I already am.
Plenty of stores in Japan selling nothing but Sanrio merchandise, including a big one right under Tokyo Station. You routinely see 30-something women sporting Hello Kitty items, not to mention hordes of younger ones. "kawaii" is important to many Japanese women, and some men. You even see hardcore tuner cars sporting the damn thing.
They will sell enough of these to put a healthy dent in the cost of the acquisition.
They will sell enough of these to put a healthy dent in the cost of the acquisition.
I was wondering if Jony Ive would take over designing the next generation of Beats headphones but yeah... I don't think Jony wants anything to do with this.
I don't mind Hello Kitty and I know how popular it is. That's not the issue here. Apple has made a name for itself for its discriminating, high-end, minimalist, clean design. Hello Kitty (and Beats, of course) is not on the same level.
Needless to say, Apple definitely seems to have lost its way. The world has suffered a terrible loss with the death of Steve Jobs.
The only thing Steve would care about is people bringing up his name like you did in macrumors posts.
Beats is free to make whatever headphones it wants, Apple isn't going to get in the way of their operations over a hello kitty paint job.
