[slider]

Just wondering, I imagine it's a lot. The new iPods are all slightly different in thickness, I gotta believe that this is an indicator of massive sales.

[Amorya]

Originally posted by slider:
Just wondering, I imagine it's a lot. The new iPods are all slightly different in thickness, I gotta believe that this is an indicator of massive sales.

What does thickness have to do with sales?

Amorya

[slider]

Yeah, I knew someone would ask. The thickness has requires a different case, if sales were slow then it would be difficult to justify three different models requiring different sized cases, it is more cost effective to produce one size. The more a product sells, the more options can be offered because the demand is there. It would have been easier to make all the new 10GB and 20GB models the same thickness, but they didn't. Look at the new iMac, the only difference is the screen, everything else is the same size, I'm sure they planned this into the design of the new iMac from the start. Anyways, that was the logic behind the post, I guess it wasn't as obvious as I had hoped, and may therefore be flawed. OW

[spiky_dog]

Your logic is not necessarily correct. One might argue that the 20 GB model had to be a different thickness simply because the original form factor would not allow the slightly thicker (I'm guessing here, and may be wrong) 20 GB drive. The 5 GB model stays the same to allow for a price cut. Since Apple's supplier is already gearing up to make faces for the new trackpad-style 20 GB case, the beancounters probably gave the go-ahead for the thinner 10 GB model because the copywriters wanted to advertise the new model as being thinner rather than thicker, and because the outlay was already mandated by the wheel change. Make sense?