Comments on: iPod Mini Gets a Collective Yawn

By: Forager

Forager — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m sure the price will drop within the next few months but I agree… however I would just spend the 50 bucks more and buy the 15gb model if I was going to be dumping a bunch of money into an mp3 player.

By: Greedo

Greedo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s greed and fear of cannibalization that will inhibit this promising product launch. If the miniPod fails it will be because the price points between products is so screwed up. Apple is scared to lower the price of the MiniPod becuase it could pull sales of the low-end iPod.

Advice to Apple: Drop the low end iPod! Produce a 20 and 40GB and litter the market with varying sizes of miniPods. Most of you’re sales are of the 20GB size anyway. And try for some not-so-girly colors like cobalt blue, LiveWire orange, or 2003 blackout black. Pastels might work on the chicks Jobs, but not on me.

The flash-player market will really get hot, but only after Apple drops the price.

By: information leafblower

information leafblower — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

$200 would have been ideal but it’s obvious they didn;t want to cannibalize sales.

I still can;t decide between an eMac and an iBook. Today I am leaning toward the eMac.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think Apple just blew it. They had to have done research on features vs price points, but it seems that 4GB is too much storage for a lower end model and $250 doesn’t come across as cheap to people who aren’t used to spending the extra money on Apple products.

I think they should have gone small and cheap to get people used to using iPods. Everyone always wants more capacity, so they would eventually graduate to a full size iPod. How anyone could justify getting a 4GB for $250 when I just got a 40GB for $500 is beyond me.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How about figuring out a way for a large capacity, non-hard drive MiniPod? And some butcher colors would be nice.

By: jean-paul

jean-paul — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i am typing this message from my g4 cube, which cost far too much and offered far too little.

nah, i don’t really own a cube.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you think 249,- USD it pricey come over to ol’ Europe – it get’s advertised over here for 299,-Euro (16 % VAT incl.), and that at 1.26 USD for 1 Euro:-(

I anticipated an original (1. generation, 5 GB) iPod in the 199,- USD range instead – and it had a clickwheel, too, Steve:p

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rainer Wolfcastle:
You should order one from here and pay in Euros. Then you too cound benefit from the administration’s irresponsible monetary policy. You can thank our grandchildren who are in effect financing your purchase. Yay!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Taken from Other Word Computing site:

3.5″ SATA Drive, 200 GB, 8Mb buffer, 7200 rpm
Price $199.95, price per Gig – $1.00

2.5″ IDE Drive, 60 GB, 8 Mb buffer, 7200 rpm
Price $267.95, price per Gig – $4.47

1 GB SanDisk, Type 1, Compact Flash Memory card
Price $249.99, price per Gig – $249.99

Do you see a pattern here? A few weeks ago on MacSurfer there was an article that these 1″ drives would sell in large quantities for $150 each. If that is the price Apple pays it would mean $200 for this mini iPod would be selling them at a loss.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not suggesting that apple take losses on iPods. I never said that it had to be a hard drive based product either. The problem is that they middled themselves. too much space and price for lowenders. They could have used flash memory, people buying a cheap mp3 player wouldn’t have cared what the data was stored on.