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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."
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GNAA RULES YOUR ASS!!!!!!!
Now if you could just legally obtain music for it, you'd be all set!
Hell, even iTunes can't offer The Beatles.
Rishi Chopra
www.rishichopra.org
You're wrong. Why the HELL would anyone buy an MP3 player that is not made by Apple, if it isn't due to some other reason like the nice cheap cardflash hack? The iPod mini is a revolutionary product, as far beyond the Creative Movo2 as OS X is beyond Linux.
HMMMMMM.....how about: /.'ers are smarter
It is very possible that the average person does not know about this price discrepancy or is too dumb to realize the difference in GB. remember, 7 out of 10 people you see every day are dumb as rocks.
isn't so mini when it comes to problems. My neighbor got one and the battery died already. Apple really needs to look into this.
It may be the same price as the miniu, But it is a SUPERIOR product. Note that I said "I will never understand how people can be talked into spending enormous sums on an inferior product". I'm more than willing to pay more for a quality product that DELIVERS on the cost.
Besides, unlike Apple's pricing scheme the MSRP on most consumer electronics (like Rios line) is never the same as the price retailers end up charging for them. Take the Rio Karma: it has an MSRP of about $350, and it retails at CC and other stores for as low as $240 before tax.
-rt
I can't believe this - It's only 3 days old!
Why is it anytime an Apple product sells well, mainly the ipod, that it makes headlines?
/. no doubt but national news I think not.
I think the answer is the Mac-zealots have infiltrated mass media organizations to further spread their highly toxic, misguided, and complete fanboy rhetoric:D I jest but I'll be taking a "mod down" balls deep only seconds after posting this hence anony...
Honestly why is this a major headline on national news? Does this really matter in the grand scheme of things? Is it relevant to our way of life?
It is relevant here at
This is not major headline, newsworthy on anything but a tech related site nor is it's included software the greatest invention. It is more of a great spin off on an already invented idea, i.e. Napster and more like the business idea that Microsoft lives by....improve on something already out there although they tend to fail most of the time....
It's the TI book all over again. Apple hasn't posted anything about it on their forums yet.
Other than that, it sounds great, even though the battery died after 3 hours.
I just the rumors of problems are true.
You forgot Microsoft basically propped Apple up when it was on it's deathbed. Apple will always be a niche product. But enough so that there is a choice and Microsoft can always say they don't have a monopoly.
I'm not drunk, I just have a speech impediment. And a stomach virus. And an inner ear infection.
No, they weren't wrong. Someone saying a product is poor value for money in their opinion isn't contradicted by other people buying it. Unless you're the school of thought that says something is true because a lot of people think it.
Firewire support? Yeah, that's useful seeing how most laptops and machine today that aren't top of the line come with USB 2.0 ONLY, not Firewire. But I forgot, your on a macintosh with the other 4% on non-wintel machines.
AAC support isn't something I would get all pumped over dude. AAC is a crappy, lossy, DRM (at least iTunes) codec that has NO reason to exist. WMA? Are you KIDDING ME? If you want to talk codecs try to know something about the topic. Ogg blows the snot out of ANY other lossy codec in terms of performance at size or comparable bit rate. Its also gapless, a feature notably lacking in either AAC or MP3, but whatever. Point is that Rio supports open standards, Apple doesn't AT ALL. And this site is... oh yeah, SLASHDOT, home of the OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY.
No standout? Did you even READ the specs on either product? Zealot in aisle 12, zealot in aisle 12, please clean up the mess made from his uninformed corpse.
-rt
I fmy post was self-congratulatory bullshit why bother posting? You like the mini you don't neeed to post in reply to a guy talking up a Nitrus.
The mini-iPod IS a rip-off of the nitrus, PERIOD. There isn't any arguing that point. Does that piss you off or something? I'll happily make any argument for anyone who gets ripped off, including Apple's original GUI (though they stole that as well, so...)
I accept the fact that Apple users like to pay more for a product and then preach to other people about how their selection of a fucking computer make's them some kind of artist individual. I accept the fact that Apple users, like you, are passive aggressive twits who make comments like:
"They want a product that is guaranteed to be easy to use, easy to purchase"
Underhandedly slamming other products by implying they DON'T do any of that.
The iPod UI is a combination of the physical interface and the software. I find teh software awkward and annoying. I find the hardware interesting but, in the end, less effective than the one used on teh Nitrus and the Karma. Note that in this post AND in my first post I constantly use the word "I". Not like your posts which make broad claims about "They," as though you know exactly what everyone else thinks.
-rt