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iPod Mini Worldwide Rollout Delayed

Posted by timothy on from the sound-the-tiny-klaxon-immediately dept.

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. Women of geekdom by be-fan · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This does not reflect well on your intelligence. Being easily fleeced is such a turn off...

    Seriously, though. $250 for 4GB? You can get a 15GB iPod for $300! Just 1/5th more cash for almost 4x more hard drive space!

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  2. I agree with Rob Glaser by DeltaSigma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I want to see Ogg Vorbis support on the iPods too.

  3. Whee. by mfh · · Score: -1, Redundant

    The iPod Mini will be a flop!

    For $50 more you can get nearly FOUR TIMES THE STORAGE! 4GB is not NEARLY enough for me!

    It's too expensive! $250 is going to price it right out of the market!

    Nobody with a brain would buy this thing. Now excuse me while I go drink this Mt. Dew while reconfigure the BIOS settings on my overclocked AMD motherboard with water cooling for the 15th time in a week while entertaining my own delusions of technological consumer superiority and grandeur on Slashdot.

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  4. Ehh... too expensive for only 4 gig... by DroopyStonx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Considering you can get a 30 gig for $500 (probably less now), $249 for 4GB is a flatout ripoff.

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  5. Re:PDA by Rew190 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Absolutely agree, I've also got one. You see what I'm getting at, though; the iPod was specifically designed for music. It's also got some PDA-like features which is quite cool, but you're not going to buy an iPod to use as a PDA and vice versa.

  6. Re:It's apparent... by eclectic4 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No kidding. Delayed and botched due to overwhelming demand...

    Sure seems like a company could be doing worse, I suppose.

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