iPod Changes? Price? Size?
- Thread starter Dime5150
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! And despite the fact that it is only "new" for a few weeks doesn't bother me; It is just so dang cool. Words cannot describe it...
Yes Bill Gates's statement is quite silly when looking back with hindsight but this is actually quite similar to the situation he saw at that time. If the ipod is to remain a mere mp3 player then it is really pointless to increase its capacity any more. If computers remained just calculator machines with little to no graphics or sound then 640k of ram would have been fine for any home user but computers evolved into media hubbs and 640k is no longer even close to what is necessary for the most basic operations.
If apple plans to market the ipod as more of a firewire hd + mp3 player then I can see them expanding its size so users could transmit more but that is not there major selling point right now.
As for people going and spending several hundred dollars ontop of the ipods price to get high quality headphones apple can't possibly make this there main selling point. Yes some people will do it but for apple to increase the price of production significantly just to please 1% of the user population is crazy.
If apple can keep the cost of production the same by changing the appearence or slightly modify the interface or software then that would probably be the wiser move. If you are an average user would you spend 200 dollars and get a 10 gig player of 700 and get an 80 gig player?(prices are just random approximations for future pricing levels)
I see it being much wiser to add color choices or some gaming capabilities and bringing down the prices maybe 5-10% than beefing up the storage. The ipod is already one of the biggest mp3 players, they need to improve it in other ways to increase sales.
If apple plans to market the ipod as more of a firewire hd + mp3 player then I can see them expanding its size so users could transmit more but that is not there major selling point right now.
As for people going and spending several hundred dollars ontop of the ipods price to get high quality headphones apple can't possibly make this there main selling point. Yes some people will do it but for apple to increase the price of production significantly just to please 1% of the user population is crazy.
If apple can keep the cost of production the same by changing the appearence or slightly modify the interface or software then that would probably be the wiser move. If you are an average user would you spend 200 dollars and get a 10 gig player of 700 and get an 80 gig player?(prices are just random approximations for future pricing levels)
I see it being much wiser to add color choices or some gaming capabilities and bringing down the prices maybe 5-10% than beefing up the storage. The ipod is already one of the biggest mp3 players, they need to improve it in other ways to increase sales.