iPod Mini in the Media and on TV?

Score 5 stars. Insightful.

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I love this topic... Those three reviews on the bottom made me laugh out loud-especially considering all of the posters probably have iPods by now...
Definitely good points raised... those of us who need space for a few thousand songs can be happy with our iPods, and go on our merry way. But 249 for everything the mini offers is a hell of a good deal, compared to everything else out there.

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Score -54: troll

Originally posted by MGnards
I love this topic... Those three reviews on the bottom made me laugh out loud-especially considering all of the posters probably have iPods by now...
Definitely good points raised... those of us who need space for a few thousand songs can be happy with our iPods, and go on our merry way. But 249 for everything the mini offers is a hell of a good deal, compared to everything else out there.

ditto
i_b_joshua

Yep, I agree - it's funny to read those 3 posts on the original iPod, and then realize that so many simliar comments have been made so far about the iPod minis. Oh well, time will tell. I for one never expressed any negative feelings towards the minis, and from the get-go I thought that they were pretty cool. But, different strokes for different folks, just as the article says - diifferent people have different priorities and different tastes, and I appreciate that.

Dead right. The iPod mini is a music product with a side job as a file storage device, pure and simple. People will decide, and if they want it, they'll buy it. They won't be worrying about whether the big one holds another 3,000 songs, nor will they be strapping a 120GB drive to their backs and jogging with that because it holds their music, their girlfriend's music, their friend's wedding video, and 5 eps of The Simpsons at a lower price per GB. Unless you're crossing the Antarctic, 1000 songs take longer than I care to exercise most days.

And as long as they have iTunes, they won't be listening to Microsoft bleating about their standards being the only universal ones. They'll be happy at $249 or a bit less - as they've been with anything MS put on their PCs, because it was there and it seemed to work OK. If I add up the money I've spent on lost 128MB USB keydrives, a strap-on iPod is a bargain. It's cool, it'll sell.

Boy, can you believe Apple bothered making an mp3 player? Like that would ever catch on?! It's been two years and what do they have to show for it? Just a 30% market share with 2 million devices sold?! Come on! ;)

If you look at the market, the ipod mini is priced competitively. Unfortunately, right now it doesn't look good in the line up at that price point. $199 would have been better but then again there are mac fanatics that would buy anything new Apple comes out with even if they hated it (you know you're one of them).


I would still like to see a small removable SD flash AAA powered ipod that I can take to the gym for $99.

Originally posted by pyrotoaster
Boy, can you believe Apple bothered making an mp3 player? Like that would ever catch on?! It's been two years and what do they have to show for it? Just a 30% market share with 2 million devices sold?! Come on! ;)

very funny! Yeah the mini ipods are a solid product. Although they are more expensive then I'd like to pay, as my boss always says "after you set the initial price, it can only go down from there".

Lets hope that by next ski season they are 50 or 80 bucks cheaper, and then i'll own one for sure!

PS good work arn. I echo the posts above.