Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters bring it up whenever Microsoft product naming, branding or marketing is confusing, pointing to it as a long-running self-aware critique.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Brant Walsh

Topic

product packaging parody

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is supposedly an MS-produced parody of it's marketing efforts. It's very old now (I think it uses a 1st gen iPod?) but is still worth a laugh: [VIDEO] Thankfully MS have learnt a lot of lessons since.

• It's just a few lines of text complain about Windows, and some windows UI screenshots copied onto a max desktop. Not worth 2 minutes of video. The original "Microsoft iPod" video from 2006 is much better [VIDEO]

• Many tech products are still sold on feature lists. Few people care any more. This great (short and funny) internal video from Microsoft was supposed to be a wake up call, but nothing really changed: [VIDEO] The fact that Apple doesn't really play that game …