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iPod touch review {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2007 1:06PM You folks always neglect the marketing aspects. You focus on the greedy, "gimme , gimme" consumer. The iPod Touch was designed and planned with a two fold mission.- 1- Sell more iPhones, 2- Make Apple more profits outside of the iPhone. The iPod classic is no longer in this equation because it's appeal is only mass storage and competes outside the flash memory paradigm. Here is how the shopping scenario plays out. There are several types of consumers after gadget freaks and early adopters. They are: Low budget- They are choosing between a shuffle and a 4 GB Nano- they ask themselves should I spend the extra and get more space and value, the wallet often decides, if they splurge Apple makes more money. Hi budget- who want an iPhone and AT & T. Hi Budget who are undecided. They look at the 16 gb Touch and say wow cool but compare it to the iPhone and say- hey for another $100, I can get a new cool cell phone. I have to switch to At& T, OK no big deal.Capacity looses. Apple sells another iPhone. Hi Budget undecided who hate AT& T. They approach with the same reasoning but choose the 16GB Touch because they like their carrier. Apple increases non iPhone profits.Medium budget looking at 8Gb Nano, they see the Touch and say" Hey for $100 more I almost get an iPhone and all that wi Fi internet stuff. Again, Apple wins more profits for Apple. It is not about the feature set at present it is about selling more iPhones. Eventually as sales level off some of the requested features will be include. Software features will probably be added to the Touch same as the iPhone, which will make the Touch owneres really happy. I expect weather and note pad myself and maybe calendar as well. They will never give us the ultimate unless we pay the ultimate. Money wins out. The new iPod family is about Apple making money all the way around. Regardless of iPod choice, it is a win win for Apple and consumers.
George Harrison confirms his Nintendo retirement {Engadget}
Sep 14th 2007 12:22PM Maybe now he will have time to put his album catalog on iTunes with John, Paul and Ringo. Wait .... isn't he dead? Or was working for Nintendo death?
Apple Hi-Fi, RIP: 2006 - 2007 {Engadget}
Sep 7th 2007 6:28PM My students gave me one last June. The dock part started to malfunction in March. My 1st gen Nano stopped working in it. Then my 60 Gb wasn't making a good connection. I finally took it in for a repair this june to discover that it was out of warranty as they had actually purchased it in April of 2006. I said , no problem the school will pay to fix it, How much? They wanted $269 to repair it!!!!! It only cost a $100 more and a Bose or other Brand could be had for less. I said, thanks but no thanks as it still works with the auxiliary plug connection. Boy am I glad it was a gift and I am getting a $100 back on my iPhone. Some time s Apple can really suck.
