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can we stop with the unboxing photos already?

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Apple released new iPods on Tuesday. Thankfully, none of them have forced me to drop everything and head to my local Apple Store with my credit card in hand. I've already got an orange Shuffle and an iPhone. The newly-renamed iPod Classic is almost attractive in its 160GB model, but that's not big enough to hold my complete music collection and I'm not sure if I want to carry all of my music collection anyway.

As has become the tradition with new Apple products, there are unboxing pictures on the web. Maybe it's just that I'm getting crankier in my old age, but I don't get the point of them any more. Apple does a fantastic job with its out-of-box experience, and I think that more hardware manufacturers should learn from Apple's example here. A picture or two is great, show me everything that comes in the box, show me the differences between this iPod and the previous model. But seriously, do I need to see a picture of the box in the plastic wrap, a picture of the box without the plastic wrap, a picture of the box after it's just been opened, a picture of the iPod sitting oh-so-artistically leaning against the box, the same thing at a different angle, etc etc etc?

Unboxing pictures are so overdone that it's just a cliché now. Yes, Apple does packaging right. Let's save the unboxing pictures for when they've done something really new.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    Finally, someone else who thinks this thing is done.

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    I find myself skipping the iPod unboxing photos too.  Although, my excitement level was much higher for the iPhone and I clicked.  

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    I don't know. Does this count as an unboxing photo? http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/10/30000-apple-logo.html Pretty nifty.

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2007
    I think people are just excited about their new toys and want to share it with others. They're just having a bit of fun. There is a lot of dumb stuff on the net. It would take too long to complain about it all. And on the grand scale this is pretty harmless.

  • Anonymous
    September 10, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    September 11, 2007
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