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iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed
falcon5768 writes "Apparently those 4-gig, $249 little buggers are selling faster than anyone expected.... So fast that the original April rollout worldwide has been delayed till July to keep up with the demand in the states and to get enough in production to meet worldwide sales. Given that there where 100,000 pre-orders alone, does this mean that yet again Apple hit on a niche that no one else (including me) thought would sell. I have been hearing a lot of rumors that the biggest buyer of the iPod mini has in fact been those female tech geeks out there. So much for the idea a $249 4-gig iPod was a mistake." Rob Glaser of RealNetworks, though, claims that not opening the iPod (big or small) to other formats is a real mistake; he wants to see iPod support other proprietary formats (like, say, Real's).
Female geeks intimidate me the same way gorgeous girls do. Strange, huh? I think it's because I'm on the fringe of being knowledgeable about the whole computer society. I can't even submit this comment in HTML format or link to past articles.
The extent of my programming skills is limited to TrueBasic and Pascal that I learned in high school 8 years ago and haven't touched since then. Then I went to college, tried C++ with a dick of a professor, and said 'Screw this!', I don't want to program.
Long story short, there are some really cute Indian (dot not feathers) girls that work at the computer center on campus that I feel intimidated by.
What was the article about again?
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
REAL has yet to release any OS X native encoding tools for Real audio or video. It sucks that I have to run Classic to encode stuff (reluctantly mind you)
It would be a lot less pathetic with a lower UID.
Random is the New Order.