The new iPod Nano Video commercial is a joke. To me, it just screams “Don’t buy this, because you can’t see anything on my postage-stamp screen!” And don’t take me as an Apple-basher, because I get it. A lifelong Mac devotee, I bought the 5GB iPod, then 15GB, then 40GB, and then 80GB iPods. If there were a 160GB available, I’d eBay my 80-gigger and get one–and proudly sync it to my Mac.
It’s just that, with his “technology magic” act, Steve Jobs is starting to look trite as the late Doug Henning did there at the end. I want a music player, not a Blackberry-Palm-phone-thing. I don’t want my iPod polluted with a bunch of crappy software that half-works. Plus, with the iPod’s well-known battery issues, what, I want to put my grocery list on my iPod so I can burn the battery out faster? Flucke that. And I certainly don’t want videos, because what good is a music video at 14 pixels square? Plus, all I need is to be driving on the highway amongst a bunch of 17-year-old chickie-doo Feist fans trying to watch the damn video on their Nanos when they should be, er, steering their cars and getting out of my way.
The only thing more embarrassing than watching Steve Jobs unveil some incremental upgrade to his iWhateverDuJour is the slobbering “oohing” and “ahhing” of the audience watching him. Pathetic sycophants, all of them. Ugh. Not like Mike Dell has any charisma whatsoever, but at least Dell devotees don’t wilt like wounded flowers when he speaks.
Which brings us to MySpace, which fixes the problem of the iPod Nano Video commercial. No, it turns out, the video is not a poor Busby Berkeley clone production starring a drunken Britney, Nicole, Lindsay, Paris, and their entourages filmed from the balcony at Pure, which it kinda resembles Nano-sized.
(In fact, a quasi-interesting NYT article explains how the singer, Feist, actually wears t-shirts and jeans most of the time and took something of a chance donning the blue pantsuit for the video–in my opinion, to great effect.)
iPod devotees hipped to Feist via the commercial (and not our own Mike Farley’s review from months ago) can’t go to her own site, which she says was overrun by porn spammers.
In fact, the 30-something Torontonian’s MySpace is the place to go to check out her act, at full size. Before you go, here’s that video the iPod Nano does a great job of not showing on the TV commercial:
