[POLL] iPod or iPod Mini

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iPod or iPod Mini Which Do You Want?  

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  1. 1. iPod or iPod Mini Which Do You Want?

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Schmoove

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No Pod....

They're all overpriced. How the hell are they expecting me to drop 300+ euro for a damn MP3 player. Don't they have any idea how much money that is??? Those people at Apple are crazy.....

If I had to choose, I'd still say iPod. The iPod design is much better.

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SuBHuMaNGuY

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I figured $150 was the sweet spot...especially when I read tha the drives are $70 a piece when bought in lots of 100,000... and you know that apple bought more than 100,000. I'm not against a company making a decent profit, but this just seems crazy. I've seen the comparisons to the normal iPod and it's smaller, but does it make THAT much difference since the iPod is already incredibly small and the mini has 11 GB less than the cheapest normal model. I can't justify it, but thats just me.

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Schmoove

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The mini is over priced

Well I think the iPod is overpriced too.

Sure it has a 15gb HD which cost quite a lot.... but I don't want that. 5gb is more then enough for me, hell I could do with 3gb too. The thing is that when I want an iPod I always have to buy one with at least 15gb, so I'm buying a device that I only use half the capacity. That way the iPod will always be overpriced for me.

If it also could play movies then the 15gb could be put to good use, but for me 15gb for just music is just way too much and makes the iPod way too expensive.

So now they introduce a 4gb iPod. GREAT.... but not for 300 euro (which it will probably cost here when they put it on the market).

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rocks1985

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iPod mini for the gym, iPod Biggie for the Road, Metro, Trips, Vacations, whatever...me being stupid and like to say stupid things which I believe are cool but noone else does thinks that apple should make it so you can connect iPod Biggie to iPod mini so you can transfer songs without a compy 386.

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IlliniPi

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That alone isn't worth the pricetag though...I see no reason for the price to be so high except that they are a bunch of greedy ******s :crazy:

They're not neccessarily greedy, as it is they get plenty of income from all their hardware and accesories. They priced it high because they know some people will still buy it either as a status symbol or because they actually have enough money and stupidity imo to buy it for that price.

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