iPod Heard of iPod Vending Machine?

[WildCowboy]

how high do you think it is drop? Is it high enough to have damages upon retrieval even its inside a box....

As Kinsley pointed out, the items don't drop like in a traditional vending machine. A robotic arm plucks it from its spot and deposits it in a hopper where you can retrieve it.

 

[DCapple]

Has anyone here actually bought an iPod from one of these machines?
It makes sense in a place like an airport where people have to stay inside and maybe they forgot their iPod. Talk about an impulse purchase.

yes i want to know that also...if anyone purchased an iPod from this vending machine?

 

[portent]

If I ever decide to buy another iPod, that's where I'm doing it. Definitely.

It'd be worth it just to see the look on the face of passers-by.

I could also see someone using them to pick up a case, or some earphones or a power adapter they forgot to pack. And of course, it's great for the oh-crap-I-was-supposed-to-bring-back-a-gift-from-my-vacation set.

 

[DCapple]

If I ever decide to buy another iPod, that's where I'm doing it. Definitely.

It'd be worth it just to see the look on the face of passers-by.

I could also see someone using them to pick up a case, or some earphones or a power adapter they forgot to pack. And of course, it's great for the oh-crap-I-was-supposed-to-bring-back-a-gift-from-my-vacation set.

if you do get iPod from that machine tell us how it works or you can take a picture while purchasing it just a souvenir...

 

[Timo_Existencia]

Brilliant

I think this concept is brilliant.

Especially for accessories...headphones, cases, extended batteries, etc. I think Apple should buy this company and scrap the mini store idea for this. Put them in grocery stores, malls, etc. That way, the stores could guarantee the purchases, but you could mass distribute the products all over.

Brilliant idea...

 

[Ja Di ksw]

I don't get it

iPods aren't like discmans or walkmans, you have to load the music onto it. I go to an airport, don't have my iPod on me, so now I buy one with . . . . no songs on it to listen to? What's the point?

"You might have your computer with you, then you can put the songs on it"

"Or I could just listen to them off my computer if I have it with me"



"You don't have headphones for your computer and don't want to play it loudly on the plane"

". . . . so you buy an iPod for the oh-so-high-quality headphones? Brilliant"



"What if you have your computer on you, no headphones, and the iPods come charged (do they?)? Then you would want one b/c it would last longer"

"Yes, yes. I suppose if I was traveling for longer than my computer's battery/batteries lasted, had my computer on me, had no headphones, had forgotten my iPod at home, had hundreds of dollars to blow on something I already own, and was so use to other people entertaining me that I couldn't amuse myself for a few hours, then yes, I *might* buy one"

"See!? It's a good idea!"

 

[viperguy]

LOL great stuff, this should be posted on the main macrumors page

 

[m-dogg]

I wonder if their is an education option

Yes, just swipe your student ID!

 

[macpastor]

Has anyone actually bought off one of these units???

 

[Timo_Existencia]

Airports not the only outlet...

I know several of you keep critiquing this idea as though airports are the only place that houses these vending units. But, the story I saw on CNN today had one in a grocery store.

Sure, airports pose the question of "how do you load music on it for your flight." But, the larger outlet of these, for me, are to put them in multiple locations around a city or town that might not otherwise have close access to other stores or distribution outlets...

These, essentially, become an iPod store that you can place just about anywhere. And in those terms, I still think they are brilliant.

Think beyond airports. Think college campus. Think strip malls. Think grocery stores. Think subway terminals. To be able to capture the quick impulse purchase of lots of consumers without having to open up a store? Brilliant.

 

[briansolomon]

Has anyone here actually bought an iPod from one of these machines?
It makes sense in a place like an airport where people have to stay inside and maybe they forgot their iPod. Talk about an impulse purchase.

I had a friend buy a nano from the one in Atlanta last year shortly after the nano debuted. He asked me if I had heard of them...and I had, thanks to Macrumors.

Music was preloaded on it, I believe.

Brian