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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).

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  1. mod dowN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Size Doesn't Matter? by anthonyclark · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ah the old size doesn't matter joke

    I'm sure I'm going to get the (+5 funny) crap kicked out of me here, but size does matter. Just in different ways to different women.

    I'm lucky enough to have several female friends* who've watched or discussed porn with me. Invariably they'll gasp in horror at the schlongage on display. Comments will range from 'wow, what a trooper' (regarding the female performer) to 'aieee scary penis!'.

    * yes that sentence could've ended there :-)

    In my experience, Women prefer girth to length, but not too much of either to prevent serious pain...

    Straying yet further from the topic, well trimmed clean fingernails and a well trained tongue are far more useful than those 3xtr4 |nch35 that people keep trying to sell me :-)

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  3. Re:why female geeks ? by BigKato · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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?

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  4. Hey REAL, How bout updating RealProducer for OS X? by Johnny+Mozzarella · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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)

  5. Re:Suggestions from Real... great... by Drakonian · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Oh wow. What a waste of an account. Someone should just write a script to search for I'm ________, then automatically register the username ________ and reply with the same post as above.

    It would be a lot less pathetic with a lower UID.

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