Strange Apple Store shopping cart
Okay, my friend Steve from UVa (you know, stevegongrui) just ordered his iBook tonight. He was talking to me about it while he placed his order, and all of a sudden he told me he saw something really weird.
See the Sony Fontopia headphones? Well, he didn't order those from the Apple store... he bought them from a place called Audiocube. So how the hell did they get on his Apple Store order?
See the Sony Fontopia headphones? Well, he didn't order those from the Apple store... he bought them from a place called Audiocube. So how the hell did they get on his Apple Store order?
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Yeah, wtf really. I did NOT check it accidentally (I could swear at least some of you would post that)
So, wtf??
Steve.
P.S. Go Hoos!
Originally posted by Melvin
Unless Apple has some super-intelligent AI alogrithm that can guess what its customers want,
Oh I think they do.
Originally posted by Eugene
Considering you did order those headphones elsewhere, there's little chance it was a coincidence. Unless Apple has some super-intelligent AI alogrithm that can guess what its customers want, you did browse those headphones at some point. Maybe you didn't do it that day because Apple Store shopping carts are saved indefinitely per account.
I knew someone would suggest this.
Clarification:
Seriously, I did NOT browse these damn earphones on apple's website. I ****ing swear to god. I NEVER did. I did not even know they had them. In fact, I did not even browse them on audiocube. A friend gave me a link that pointed to the buy page.
Explanation?
Originally posted by stevegongrui
Explanation?
Gnomes.
Originally posted by Ti Fighter
Fontopia?? Sony must be running out of names
What kind of a comment is that? I'm sure you'd know better.
I recently bought a book called Digital Dreams, which is all about sony and sony design.
You'll see how much they put into a product and how incredible their design team is.
I wouldn't talk about Sony running out of names if I were you.
You realise, right, that likewise, PC fanatics could be saying the same thing about iBooks, iMacs and iTunes, etc, "macs runninig out of names?"
iTunes, tunes, music that makes sense.
Originally posted by Ti Fighter
Fontopia = headphones? maybe I'm blind but I don't see the connection. I think of like a font collection. Is Fon supposed to be short for phone? I'm sure they are good headphones, just think it's a silly name is all.
iTunes, tunes, music that makes sense.
Well, I don't think making sense really matters.
Think about the word Walkman.
That doesn't really make sense, yet it became a standard name, it became used for products that are not even sony.
Sony invents a word, and that word becomes a standard one, with a definition.
"hey, I got a new walkman"
"yeah, but I like my discman better"
the products referred to may well be panasonic or whatever, but the word was pioneered by sony.
That's how powerful Sony is.
name association with other similar products are usually happy accidents, sometime well deserved sometimes not. Palm came out with the palm first, so people call sony clies palms. I don't think it would have worked the same if Sony had come out with the clie first
I know my point doesn't really matter, but I just don't think they put a whole lot of thought into Fontopia
Originally posted by Ti Fighter
Palm came out with the palm first, so people call sony clies palms. I don't think it would have worked the same if Sony had come out with the clie first
Actually, the first PDA was the Newton. It's too bad people don't call them Newtons.
Originally posted by applenut
sony sucks
Do you think Apple sux? Steve Jobs set out to make Apple into a Sony of a company. What other single company has innovated as much as Sony?
If you're just saying that to try to piss me off, it's unnecessary.
Originally posted by stevegongrui
Actually, the first PDA was the Newton. It's too bad people don't call them Newtons.
I wasn't taking about the first pda just the first palm. But this is what I mean, the best doesn't always get the product name association.
Originally posted by pensieve
UVa sucks.
Learn to spell first and then maybe you could consider UVa.
Originally posted by stevegongrui
Learn to spell first and then maybe you could consider UVa.
Consider them for what?