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Apple offers red Nano to fight AIDS

13 October 2006 8:49 by Dave "Davedough" Horvath | 34 comments

Apple offers red Nano to fight AIDS Apple released today an aluminum red iPod Nano in cooperation with Irish megalomaniac Bono in which every sale will see $10 go towards helping find a cure for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The unit will sell for $199 and offer the same specifications as your typical Nano. With the 1.5" screen, 24 hour playtime on a full battery, 1,000 songs and 25,000 picture capabilities, iPod fanatics can enjoy all their Nano goodness while feeling like they're contributing to a good cause.

The announcement of the iPod Nano Red is a cross-brand campaign with the aforementioned Bono dubbed (PRODUCT) RED. In cooperation with this campaign, several other companies like Motorola are offering a red RAZR and The Gap is ponying up their own red lether jacket to help the cause.

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    spiesfan (Member) 13 October 2006 13:08 Send private message to this user   
    seems like a good idea
    Pop_Smith (Senior Member) 13 October 2006 14:17 Send private message to this user   
    Selfish pigs, they charge you $200 and only donate $10 to three seperate causes. If they equally devide it up that would be ~$3.33 to each cause.

    I think they should have donated at LEAST $30 ($10 to each cause) because that might help a bit. This seems like a stunt just to get people attention off the better quality Creative products and Apple's #1 enemy, MicroSuck's, crapy Zune.
    borhan9 (AfterDawn Addict) 13 October 2006 14:42 Send private message to this user   
    I like the idea but have they not made enough to give all the revenue to the aids people instead of $10 thats pathetic in my book :(
    vashwolf (Newbie) 13 October 2006 18:24 Send private message to this user   
    This is just another lame publicity stunt like $ony's buy a PS3 and cure cancer. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7879.cfm
    lxfactor (Senior Member) 13 October 2006 21:27 Send private message to this user   
    well i always have the latest ipod... so im gonna go from a video.. to a red nano... sweet =]
    thekingo7 (Senior Member) 14 October 2006 6:29 Send private message to this user   
    Well my 30 gig video just got stolen yesterday so maybe I will end up buying one of these.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 14 October 2006 9:21 Send private message to this user   
    Isnt yellow the color of the aids ribbon?

    0_o
    AE27 (Member) 14 October 2006 9:46 Send private message to this user   
    Red ribbon is for hiv/aids
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 14 October 2006 9:48 Send private message to this user   
    AE27
    the yellow is for soldiers..bah... I get things revered ><

    wel red should sell better than yellow anyway *L*
    Deadrum33 (Senior Member) 14 October 2006 12:00 Send private message to this user   
    I think Apple can afford it and is using this to make people forget about admitted sweatshop conditions in poorer countries.

    http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7843.cfm

    Deadrum33 (Senior Member) 14 October 2006 12:02 Send private message to this user   
    PeaInAPod (AfterDawn Addict) 14 October 2006 20:07 Send private message to this user   
    Everyones bickering about how apple only donates $10 thats $10 that was never being donated before. If it costs $120 to make a iPod nano then apple would be making $70 with $10 going to the "Bono Fund". Now its true $10 in itself is not a lot of money, but take into accound the popularity of the iPod. If 1 million of these are sold that would be 10 millian dollars. Didnt something like this happen before?... Anyone else remember the LiveSTRONG bracelets? You bought one for a $1 and that dollar went to fight cancer, sure it was only a $1 and a $1 all by itself wont do much good but look how many people bought LiveSTRONG bracelets!
    BC2002#1 (Newbie) 15 October 2006 2:17 Send private message to this user   
    Currently apple is only offering the ipod Nano Red from their website. I am stationed overseas.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 15 October 2006 2:20 Send private message to this user   
    BC2002#1
    give it acouple months they will have the online soon.
    BC2002#1 (Newbie) 15 October 2006 2:32 Send private message to this user   
    ZIppyDSM

    I know and their are ways around the restrictions; but, I will wait. Military exchange will never carry this model.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 15 October 2006 2:33 Send private message to this user   
    BC2002#1
    need friends back home to get it and send it to you ^^
    max777 (Junior Member) 15 October 2006 3:54 Send private message to this user   
    Who would want an iPod that has AIDS??
    thekingo7 (Senior Member) 15 October 2006 6:41 Send private message to this user   
    Thank you PeaInAPod you fianly got accross the point that everyone else was to stupid to realize.
    aec396 (Newbie) 15 October 2006 9:53 Send private message to this user   
    It should be the cost of the IPOD that is donated to fight the cause of AIDS if they would like to help something like that they should go full boar! Charity work is always needed, to fight a cause such as the cure and reduction of the AIDS impact on the world's population. All this inadtion to some sort of a "Aid the Victums Campaign."
    davidl1l (Junior Member) 15 October 2006 15:46 Send private message to this user   
    this is sad.there are cures to these problems.why do we give money to fund all of these places just to line their pockects.i herd by the time you are 50 the phama conpanys wants to have you on at least 5 medicines.what does that tell you.also where i live they are building phamacys every where.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 15 October 2006 16:06 Send private message to this user   
    davidl1l
    corporate greed is everyone and so is the lack of oversight.
    its how the world works and no one seems to understand that if things keep going theres going to be less stable nations and the Corporations that are undermining current governments will be the only huge powers left making this a world of "Corporate Governments"......
    Mr-Movies (Member) 17 October 2006 9:11 Send private message to this user   
    Good point vashwolf that is what I would have added as well. But it is always good to give to causes like Aids and Cancer, it is poor to use it as a marketing ploy though which happens all the time these days. I get a lot of soliciting from handicaps and disabled Vets but I’m not buying just because of their plight, which doesn’t mean I won’t contribute to a fund though.

    ZIppyDSM – Extremely well stated, good going…

    Is the Red for Red Cross?
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 17 October 2006 11:20 Send private message to this user   
    Mr-Movies
    Really??
    Sometimes my brain dose work :P
    I think Apple could afford 20-40 per red Ipod 10 seems cheap to me,and remeber they have to sell a few thousand of them to make a diffrance ,at 10$ it would have been better to just SELL all ipods for a set ammount of time with the 10 going to the AIDS, fund.
    timrocha (Newbie) 18 October 2006 18:21 Send private message to this user   
    Do any of you post-ers use a spell- or grammar-checker before posting a comment?
    aec396 (Newbie) 18 October 2006 18:40 Send private message to this user   
    This is a good Idea. but not a generous one. They should give a larger donation and incorporate something with an inclusion of I-Tunes along with it. Or have U-2 or Bono right a new song that is really good and make it only availible through I-Tunes and give a larger donation to the AIDS fund.
    ZippyDSM (AfterDawn Addict) 18 October 2006 18:48 Send private message to this user   
    timrocha
    My spell checker got tired of fixing all my errors and revolted :P
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