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iPod Mini Sells Out
burgburgburg writes "According to USATODAY.com, the iPod mini is virtually sold out after two weeks. As we know, it had 100,000 on pre-order. It's the top seller at the Apple Store, where they advise people that there will be a one to three week wait. And it isn't a component shortage that's causing the delays. It's the huge demand amongst teens (for the colors) and athletes who like exercising with the ultralight device. While many here on /. felt that the mini was overpriced and pointed out that for $50 extra, you could buy a regular iPod with 15GB of storage instead of the 4 GB of the mini, Apple seems to have correctly identified the price point and the market they were going after. The space has become so hot that Creative's MuVo2 has also been selling well, but also for a slightly different reason. The MuVo2, which also has 4 GB of capacity, uses a CompactFlash card (which can be used in a digital camera). People have been buying the MP3 player and taking it apart for the card, which would cost more than the $200 dollars for the MuVo2."
You knew it the moment that it became popular. The iPod totally sold out. Those of us who supported it back in the old days when it was little more than a cassette player in a garage are left wincing at how they've totally gone mainstream.
White case. Headphones. LED screen. Fucking sellouts.
I have been pwned because my
Was I the only one that was thinking "The iPod sold out? What a poser! Down with conformity! Sold out luser!"
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SIZE DOES MATTER!
-Adam C. Greenfield
Yeah, the main selling point to me is that it is smaller. If I wanted to maximize hard drive space for the dollar I could drag around a IDE tower.
Size and weight is _everything_.
Wow. Seeing as how 4 GB flash cards seem to be going for a great deal more than that on eBay, I think I just found myself a new work-at-home job.
True story.
Maybe they could sell the parts in a box and let consumers put them together? It takes time to assemble them, hence the shortage.
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...always listen to the most vocal people after macworld. Remember the iPod mini sucks, it won't sell, it's too expensive, nobody will like it, it'll flop. As read on Spymac! Macnn! macworld! Slashdot!.
:)
And look how right they were!. pfft.
Congrats Apple. One more insanely succesful product
Mini iPod... With a not so mini demand!
so in thanks you /. him?
How on earth did MuVo get such a low price on their components
[Crazy Gideon voice]We stack 'em deep and sell 'em cheap![/Crazy Gideon voice]
And as thanks we slashdot him, again :-D
Perhaps you should skip the battery and get your sense of humor replaced. It seems to be faulty.
If you bought a convertible beetle between around May and November of last year, you got a free iPod, if I remember the promotion correctly. My wife was annoyed as she bought a Beetle but being Canadian was screwed out of the free iPod :|.
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I knew that I'd regret getting that pickup truck. First it was the faulty wiring, then the price of gas, now it denies me free schwag.
sigh
I guess I'm just not random enough anymore...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
My wife was annoyed as she bought a Beetle but being Canadian was screwed out of the free iPod :|.
Boy, talk about 'three strikes and you're out':
1) Canadian
2) Beetle owner, and now
3) No free iPod.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
It's called "sales." I think it must be new, because nobody on slashdot seems to understand it. Maybe there's a FAQ somewhere.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
He also deserves credit for the most annoying flash intro ever. It took forevfer to get to the navigation, even after spressing 'skip intro'
Stupid like a fox!
Thank goodness. Flash cards always bugged me, with all their "5 x 9 = 45" and "6 + 13 = 19" and "400 / 2^32 = 9.31322574615478515625 x 10^-8"...
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
There are many regular lemmings lurking about.
Really? I kind of thought they all committed suicide =).
I was at the local Apple Store Yesterday picking up an iTrip for the 10gb iPod I got on clearance from amazon. In my 10 minutes there, I saw three mini sales and the following conversation between two stereotypical female blonde mallrats:
bmr1: "Man, I really WANT one of these things"
bmr2: "So BUY it, what color would you get?"
bmr1: "Blue-no-pink, I like the pink, but my credit card bill already sucks."
bmr2: "Girlfriend, untill your visa's got three grand on it, I don't even wanna hear you bitch about your credit card bill."
I'm thinking 'Bravo for managing your debt' and 'Good god, I thought bmr's only existed in movies'. Shows what happens when you got to a mall less than twice a year, I guess.
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
"Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
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Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port
Raise your hand if you have both
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.
~LoudMusic"
This was modded up, 4 insightful.
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
You might have priced a solid state CF card.
Yeah, and, the Tube-Type ones are much larger
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But hey, at least a pickup truck helps to compensate for your tiny penis.
Cheers,
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You forgot: 4) Married and wife is annoyed That can't be good.
*ducks*
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
It's a tech company. You've never heard of them?
Troll.
Are you sure it's only the pod that's three days old?
Karma Schmarma
From a consumer "I want something to listen to while I'm jogging" point of view, 4GB is how many hours of ogg audio??
There's a target demographic for you. Someone who listens to ogg formatted audio and jogs. Gotta be at least three or four people in that group.
1) Canadian
...oh wait.
2) Beetle owner, and now
3) No free iPod.
4) ???
5) Profit!
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you haven't been trolling around here quite as long as i have, though. =)
close.
They gave out the iPods so that Beetle owners can entertain themselves while waiting for the towtruck.
Vote in November. You won't regret it.
But if you set the price at $200, you'd sell out EVEN FASTER and then everybody would get more time to make fun of Apple because...look at the silly corporation! They're so beleaguered, they can't even manufacture enough product to sell to people. They must be dying.
Oh wait. I seem to have had a stupid attack.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
-LoudMusicI'm just glad I didn't post on that story...a lot of word eating going on.
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It's interesting to note, however, that the cat looks much more surprised by this experiment than the elephant. Who would have guessed?
I've had this sig for three days.
If it dont have an RFC, it dont exist!
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
There's a target demographic for you. Someone who listens to ogg formatted audio and jogs. Gotta be at least three or four people in that group.
Jogggers?
exploitation of a tech-illiterate market.
Right. Apple has totally hidden from customers the fact that they make a 15 gig iPod that sells for $300. I mean, it's not like it's in their stores or anything. And you have to be a genius to figure out that 4 gigs is less than 15 gigs , so nobody without a masters in CS can figure that out.
Some people value size and style over amount of memory, and they've chosen to buy one. Apple didn't make them buy it.
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