Since when is it newsworthy that a company tries to influence the sales of one product with another?

It's called the "Parlay" and its how MSFT got to where it is and why Apple (Who didnt do it) is number two. This is a brilliant tactic. Go read Daring Fireball's essay "The Art of Parlay" at http://daringfireball.net/2004/08/parlay

"We certainly won't turn down their business."

Damn straight. And a big fat DUH.

What do they expect, a disclaimer when you buy a PC iPod that they promise they will not attempt to sell you an iMac at any point in the future?

WORD FOR WORD in nearly every paragraph. MM's was posted at 1:40 am ET. This isn't cool.

http://www.macminute.com/2004/09/01/imac-ipod

The iPod is a platform independent product and if Apple is interested in bringing major players like HP on board for strategic partnerships to benefit iPod sales Apple can not give the impression its ready to invade the PC world with an agressive promotion linking the iPod to iMac sales.

No one will deny Apple will directly benefit by a pick-up in CPU sales from the popularity of the iPod. It's already happening especially on college campuses.

Showing the design similarities between the iPod and iMac is more than OK. But the success of the iPod depends on industry-wide support for the popular cross-platform Apple product.

Who has denied this?

The statement above says they don't have a major marketing campaign planned...

It's clear that Apple is linking the two together. And rightfully so. It's a smart thing to do. And what's so wrong with it? Any insightful business would try to leverage the success of one product to boost others. I would not fault them for that.

In your quotes, they don't deny anything! Can someone point me to an official quote from an Apple representative that DOES deny the link?

Is this article as inappropriately titled as it seems to me?

Brad

Thanks for the link to MacMinute's story. Like many sites around the Mac web, both this story and MacMinutes are talking about Apple's use of the iPod as part of the marketing strategy for the new iMac.

I disagree with your assessment that this is simply a copy of MacMinutes' coverage. For one, this story is more in depth and has a different spin on the material. I assume that the source of both stories is press releases from Apple, with quotes and background. I would bet dollars to donuts that the word for word similarities in the two articles are contained entirely to the boilerplate supplied by Apple.

Now. Take a deep breath. Hold it. Now exhale slowly.

Feel better?

Well, I've got news. So does the eMac, and that's been out for quite some time. They all came out of the same styling dept., that's all.

I just bought my first apple computer, imac g5 20", I am a heavy pc user mostly games, but my wife has a minipod and I have a 30 gig ipod. I bought the imac cause we love the ipods and hope the imac is just as satisfying.

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I just bought my first apple computer, imac g5 20", I am a heavy pc user mostly games, but my wife has a minipod and I have a 30 gig ipod. I bought the imac cause we love the ipods and hope the imac is just as satisfying.

All people will see is the 'i' prefix, and the background in 'iPod 4G blue' (See http://images.apple.com/uk/hardware/images/ipod07192004.gif and http://images.apple.com/uk/hardware/images/imac20040831.gif for an example...)
And the iMac ads in Paris are suspiciously similar to the iPod ones, with the black Apple logo in the top right and the white lettering.

Microsoft is responsible for every dirty trick in the book when it comes to pushing their filth to the mass markets but we drink it in without so much as a "wait a minute . . ."

When Apple come up with a sound marketing tactic to help increase awareness of their obvious superiority, and yes, I'll say it, SELL MORE UNITS, we jump all over them!

The world would be a better, more peaceful and joyful and stress-free place if windows users used macs. I for one second any method/tactic/strategy, call it what you will, that results in more macs on more desktops.

The difference is Apple is doing it the way it should, if being a bit coy about it; while MS often does it in an under-handed, shady way that often sells users short!

Gavin

It's called lets plagiarize... shame shame shame on MacObserver... check this out

http://www.happygolarry.com/2004/09/02/mac