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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
Interesting. I'll bet the new ipod mini sells very well. GarageBand looks pretty cool, too.
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Perhaps, but it strikes me as too much for too little. Sure, it's small, and colored, but for $50 more, you can buy a $299 15GB ipod. Lots more music there.
The pricing surprises me, because I would have thought Apple's goal was to deliver an "iPod for the masses" That is, one for folks who can't/won't pony up $300 for a walkman. The folks who buy (and are frustrated by) their $150 Rio/Dell/whatever mp3 player. This doesn't target that market, and doesn't broaden the iPod experience. It's weird, it's almost like Jobs is trying to create a country club that only rich people can enter. While at some level, premium pricing makes sense, after a point, it's not a way to operate in a network industry. (If Hermes wants to sell only 500 purses at $5000 each, that's a different model)
