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iPod packaging parody made by Microsoft

Hopefully most of you have caught the above iPod Microsoft parody on the internet. If not, take a few minutes to watch the clip in its entirety and revel in fact that as much of a joke as the clip is supposed to be, it was actually created by Microsoft.

Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. “It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding,” he said via e-mail.

Read the rest of the story on The iPod Observer. The clip was meant for internal use only [as a form of entertainment].


  • http://www.imontheinternet.com Q

    Isn’t that song from PeeWee’s Big Adventure?

  • Matt

    personally, i didn’t really find that funny. It appears to make fun of Microsoft more than Apple. Apple keeps it clean….Microsoft puts as much junk on their stuff as they can…..where is that making fun of apple?

  • http://www.tomshakely.com Tom Shakely

    Matt: The video is making fun of Microsoft, not Apple. ;)

  • Chris

    It’s not making fun of Apple. Did you pay attention?

    The video is making fun of how the average Apple packaging would be desroyed if a Microsoft designer tried to do something like it, and it is also trying to send a message to the marketers who would want to put all that crap on the box. It’s all in the info attatched to the video.

  • http://jump4jay.com Jay

    I laughed out loud when the added “system reqs” to the package.

  • Justin

    Yep, this video’s on me iPod via macTV Videocast :D

  • http://sparxcg.deviantart.com sparX CG

    Haha! Hilarious… Shows perfectly how Microsoft likes to fill all the blanks and Apple likes to keep it clean. I personally like simplicity… =D

  • http://wiredframe.org Ruben

    Although my comment is laughably unneccessary, this video is hilarious as hell :P
    The Sys Reqs final add is just the “i’m really waking up my parents by my loud laughs” :D

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