Just pick your favorite gadget and do your own version. You can use anything: rocks, paper, plastic, wood, trash, cardboard, Lego... whatever you want. Gizmodo would even give some swag to the winner. You know, like a replica of the underpants I used when I played for Steve, in the presentation of one of the iPods.

Sounds good? Send your photos here.

[Thanks Moe]

You all know we are not fans of John—one of Steve Jobs' favorite pop heads—but having experienced similar situations with family and friends, we absolutely sympathize with his frustration. Update: Some readers are saying this is staged. We don't know if it is or not, but it's funny nonetheless. Update 2: No, we are still not fans of John Mayer.

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OK, you are right. We don't. [Tumblr — Video no longer available — Thanks Benny and Richard]

Each song idea gets its own note in the notepad. And you can make my voice, singing a song that I wrote, your ringtone. I carry a spare SIM card with a brand new number in my wallet, in case one of the two supermodels I banged the night before tries to call me the next day. I hope that helps, I'll see you on tour. [John Mayer BlackBerry Summer Tour]

Thanks for including your email in your bugs.
You provided the following comment:
"Hi Apple, I heard John Mayer gets personal replies to his comments. Will I also receive a reply? My email is **********@scientificoutreachmedia.com So, final cut pro keeps crashing. It was working fine until software update ran itself today, and quicktime was updated. Since then, I can't use Compressor to export to DVD because it keeps crashing. This is a huge problem, since I have to present the final copy of a project tomorrow. I'm at wit's end here."
Can you tell me more about the situation:
- What machine are you using? - OS version? - FCP/Compressor version? - What content (codec type and source) are you attempting to export to DVD? - What parameters are you setting in compressor? - Is this issue content specific? - If it is content specific can you send me a very small piece that reproduces the problem (a 1sec clip)?
Thanks.
-Ken

See? I told you. You send the report mentioning my name and a man grinding a cigarette into an ashtray stands up waving a printout over his head and screams "WE GOT AN iTUNES CRASH OVER HEEAH!!!" Because in my mind everything looks like a '60s-era spy movie. Or a 70s porn one. I never get that right.

Anyway, hope it helps. Now I'm off to teach Steve some guitar. He's trying to get his hippie mojo back.

Thanks for reading, you guys,
Sincerely,
John Mayer
P.S. Hey The Verve, I still love "Bittersweet Symphony." But I haven't returned to Radiohead. Too busy with Madonna and Justin's latest.

[Hi, John Mayer Here in Gizmodo]

...four days later, I received an e-mail from my manager saying that Apple was at my service. Word of my problem initially made it's way to Apple not by way of my public profile, but by a technician receiving the report as they would anyone else's and passing it along internally until word reached my friends at the company.

Well, John, sorry to bust the bubble, but if you start your bug reports saying you are John Mayer, of course your manager is going to get a mail from Apple. The support guy who took care of Mayer had this to say:

"We take crash reports seriously on our side, because for us it's just like being able to talk directly with the customer while the problem is happening. The information that we get from the automated system is perfect for helping us solve the problem, and obviously the customers comments can take it one step further."

We bet that Apple takes reports seriously, but have you ever got anyone from Apple—or any other company—sending you an email from a bug report? [John Mayer —thanks Robbie]

Guest Editor's Answer: Mr. T has sent hundreds of bug reports about Safari breaking down and never got ANYTHING back from those Apple suckas! Here's my latest report:

Hello suckas! Mr. T here. I was trying to do some of editing today for this tech site and the crazy Safari crashed! I pity the fool who goes out tryin' a' take over da world with their browser, then runs home cryin' to his momma! So listen to me, suckas! You're going to fix this! Or I'm gonna kill that crazy Jobs! Sincerely, Mr. T

And then I added a picture of genitals drawn in ASCII code!

He adds in his blog:

I'll let you know if I get a response from anyone at Apple. I wonder if somebody on the other side is really going to read it ... I can hear it now, the squeak of a chair pushing away from a desk as a man grinds his cigarette into an ashtray, stands up waving a printout over his head and screams "WE GOT AN iTUNES CRASH OVER HEEAH!!!" Because in my mind everything looks like a '60s-era spy movie.

Actually, it feels to more like contacting the Wizard of Oz to me, but I guess that John is used to spies and Men in Black every time he has to go to see The Steve to play with his toys.

Do you write this kind of letter in the bug reporters of Mac OS X or Windows? Are they neutral? Fun? Angry? Don't you wish you could draw pictures of genitals and send them? Don't you? Huh? HUH? OK, so maybe that's just me. Post your answers in the comments. [John Mayer's Blog—thanks Camperton]

Press release excerpts after the jump.

Here's what Mayer's publicist said he said:

"Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of songs and albums," said John Mayer, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. "Though the medium of music has changed, the iPod experience has kept the spirit of what it means to be a music lover alive."

100 Million iPods Sold [Apple]

11:01: John's about to take the stage, and we're about to take all of his six-foot three-inch frame and his sexy, sexy guitar playing.

11:07: Want John Mayer's song Gravity? Click here.

11:07: Want his second song World to Change? Click here.

11:09: It's over! "See you all soon!"

11:10: We're about to go take some shots of the product. Come back in a sec!