Apple speaks on iPod mini pricing
Posted by malebolgia on 18 February 2004 - 19:50 · 15 comments & 1217 views
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#1 Posted by aboi on 18 Feb 2004 - 20:00
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i'll stick with the regular ipod
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#2 Posted by Rishdeep on 18 Feb 2004 - 20:06
QUOTE Cleary told Macworld: "The iPod mini is smaller and at a slightly lower price. It's very fashionable, so it may appeal to women or younger people who may not have considered an iPod previously." The $249 price-tag Apple then announced generated a wave of criticism from users who believe that's too expensive. Does Apple think the price is right?
A question of cost
Cleary clearly does. She said: "We really do think the price is right...
That's classic journalism.
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#3 Posted by frod on 18 Feb 2004 - 20:53
- obviously 100,000 people think the price is right as well
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#4 Posted by silly_walk on 18 Feb 2004 - 21:57
QUOTE "The iPod mini is smaller and at a slightly lower price. It's very fashionable, so it may appeal to women or younger people who may not have considered an iPod previously."
So $50 really made that much of a difference to women or younger people? $50? When you're talking about $250 or $300?
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#5 Posted by jbharman45 on 18 Feb 2004 - 22:16
- Keep in mind that 100,000 pre-orders doesn't necessarily mean 100,000 real people. It likely contains a very high percentage of retail bulk orders. Whether half the size and 10% the storage is worth 80% the money probably remains yet to be seen.
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#6 Posted by ABC½ on 18 Feb 2004 - 22:46
- Where can I pre-order that?
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#7 Posted by highdefinition on 19 Feb 2004 - 01:20
- for $50 more you get a 15gb model, but what a lot of people are missing is that it's not just the cheaper price, the main appeal of the mini is its size. plus 4gb is way more than enough for many who drag and drop the collections they want to listen to for a week or so before rearranging their music library to some new collection.
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#7.1 Posted by philbarnes on 19 Feb 2004 - 13:25
- yeah but it's £200 here in the UK. I was thinking of buying a pink
one for my girlfriend if it was £150 or less. Oh well...
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#8 Posted by Yvo on 20 Feb 2004 - 03:44
- They came today in our store. They do look pretty stylish but really for $50 more you get a much better product.
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#9 Posted by mruocky on 05 Mar 2004 - 20:26
- way too expensive!! Dell DJ 15GB for the same price.
As well as a higher capacity and award-winning design, the cross-platfom iPod mini uses the same connector as third-generation iPods. This means that existing third-party peripherals should work with the new product, which can also be used as an external FireWire disk, Cleary confirmed. Cleary told Macworld: "The iPod mini is smaller and at a slightly lower price. It's very fashionable, so it may appeal to women or younger people who may not have considered an iPod previously."
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