McDonald's Switches to Sony?

For all the Anti-McDonald's people... I guess you better watch what you wish for. Despite all the people who complained that Apple should not be partnering with McDonald's.... here's the alternative... Someone else is.

arn

Who really cares.

Most people avoid McDonald's like the plague these days.

Ronald McDoanld is the Anti-Christ

Was it ever Mc D's & Apple?

It could have been this way from the start, but you know how rumors are often misconstrued.

Bad news for everyone but sony

For all the Anti-McDonald's people... I guess you better watch what you wish for. Despite all the people who complained that Apple should not be partnering with McDonald's.... here's the alternative... Someone else is.

arn

Here's the thing: I wasn't so sure that Apple partnering with McDonalds was such a great idea, but I also don't think having them partner up with Sony is a great thing for Apple either. Therefore, I can't reasonably give a positive or negative rating to this item.

At least the second big promo (after Apple-Pepsi) is Sony and not some Microsoft WMA store. (There's some snack-chip promo now too... but it doesn't even SAY what store the downloads are from.)

I think Apple can survive a few other company's getting some airtime :) Especially Sony--their service is apparently only for their own players, just like Apple... only Sony doesn't have the iPod! The worst of all worlds.

BTW... I notice that both WMA and Sony's ATRAC format (used in their online store) just lost out to AAC for inclusion on Audio DVDs:

http://www.macdailynews.com/comments.php?id=P2366_0_1_0

does sony even have a music store??? at least it's not microsoft

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65063

-Ted

I have to say, I'm a little disappointed with the marketing on the Apple/Pepsi promotion. Yeah, they show that commercial every once in a while, but in the grocery store, where you actually buy the drinks, there's nothing. Meanwhile there's a huge display with candy bars (baby ruth I think) offering "Download free music!"

Good. That would be bad karma anyways. McDonalds is the devil.

I think this is a good thing. McDonalds does not have a good image, well, certainly not here in the UK, I think that they are seen as trashy + very dodgy image on the environmental front too- so I am personally pleased that Apple are not doing a promotion with them.