Perhaps you have never heard of something people in the business call Marketing. It's really not that difficult to figure out. People don't always buy something because of the intrinsic merit it has. Sometimes, they have to be convinced that it is good and virtuous. This is where Marketing comes in. Marketing is meant to strip out all the information the customer needs (such as bites, and bit-rates, duh) and give them a clear and concise method of comparison. For instance, Apple "markets" their iPod under the slogan "1000 songs in your pocket". Guess what. That's about what people can put in an iPod. I would venture to say that most people have mp3 collections with most of the songs having similar bit-rates. I believe the most common bit-rate is straight-up 128. The iPod is clearly marked as having that 1000 Songs figure come from 160K encoding at an average of 4 minutes per song. Apple also makes it very clear that the iPod has a 5GB capacity. Given that the common encoding rate is lower that this, people might (crossing fingers here) be able to fit MORE than 1000 songs in their iPods. Remarkable. Seriously, dude. How is this not obvious? Everyone has to sell their widgets to less-than-extremely-knowledgeable people and marketing simply makes that easier for them.
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Perhaps you have never heard of something people in the business call Marketing. It's really not that difficult to figure out. People don't always buy something because of the intrinsic merit it has. Sometimes, they have to be convinced that it is good and virtuous. This is where Marketing comes in. Marketing is meant to strip out all the information the customer needs (such as bites, and bit-rates, duh) and give them a clear and concise method of comparison. For instance, Apple "markets" their iPod under the slogan "1000 songs in your pocket". Guess what. That's about what people can put in an iPod. I would venture to say that most people have mp3 collections with most of the songs having similar bit-rates. I believe the most common bit-rate is straight-up 128. The iPod is clearly marked as having that 1000 Songs figure come from 160K encoding at an average of 4 minutes per song. Apple also makes it very clear that the iPod has a 5GB capacity. Given that the common encoding rate is lower that this, people might (crossing fingers here) be able to fit MORE than 1000 songs in their iPods. Remarkable. Seriously, dude. How is this not obvious? Everyone has to sell their widgets to less-than-extremely-knowledgeable people and marketing simply makes that easier for them.
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