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iPod Mini Ships
dave at hostwerks writes "The iPod Mini is now shipping. The number of pre-ordered units was about 100,000. CBS News has a good write-up as well as an accompanying piece they ran on the Saturday evening news report here in the U.S."
I want to know the color breakdown.
Clearly, the first thing anyone should do with a new gadget is take it apart.5 9_0_8_0_C
http://www.ipodlounge.com/articles_more.php?id=30
I've had my ipod mini for about four days now. I have the blue one. I sync it with my WinXP machine.
I've filled it with mp3's of various bitrates from Kazaa (all legal music of course) and it hasn't had a problem playing them.
The first thing that strikes me is that it is really small and really lightweight. It's only $50 less than the 15GB one but this one is way better than anything iRiver puts out for working out at the gym.
It also has a fun name that tune game where it plays one of your songs and then has you pick from four tunes that appears on the screen. It's pretty fun to get familiar with your entire music collection that way.
The mini's also have (finally) a star rating system, so you can rate your songs as you are listening to them.
One caveat: It does not work with USB 1.1. The older ipods can sync with 1.1 and 2.0. You'll have to either buy a USB2.0 card or a firewire card to sync on a USB 1.1 machine.
I find it interesting that we all (and that includes me) seemed to be underwhelmed, as the article mentions, by the iPod Minis when they were introduced. Certainly nobody gasped in sheer awe at the introduction. Anyway, the connection I want to make: wasn't it all just the same when the iPod itself was introduced? People had expected something much more, as usual, and "all" they got was an expensive mp3 player. Now, this writer and many others (again, including me) just can't stop loving our iPods, and he rewrites history to say we've all been impressed by the full three generations of iPods. A testament to the convincing power of actually getting to use a device?
:-) ...
And right now, I "just" feel the iPod Mini is cool. A few steps up since the introduction. But then, I haven't held one in my hand yet
The Mac nerd at CompUSA told me that they had never seen as many girls in the store all at once as when the iPod Minis came in.
My wife and I headed to the local Apple Store on Saturday to check out the iPod minis. It wasn't my idea.
When we got to the store, we had to wait to try one out. I noticed that all the people in front of use were women.
After about 5 minutes, my wife looks at me with the "I WANT THIS" look. At no point did she ask how much hard drive space it had. Later, when filling it with music she likes, she said "look it's only half full" (and she's no dummy when it comes to computers, she's a system architect.)
On Monday, I learned that the wives of two colleagues had also gotten iPod minis over the weekend.
To me, it's clear that the fairer sex will drive the sales of this product. It took me by surprise, but I'd bet Apple's market research showed this trend.
And the really interesting part: after getting the iPod mini home and playing around with it, I want one too!
-ch