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The iPod Marketing Blunder
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Washington, D.C.
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Apple's Key Mistake :
The iPod should have been the iDrive... or something like that!
Everyone seems to be failing to realize the real usefulness of iPod for what it really is! : a pocket-sized 5GB self-recharging battery-powered firewire disk drive which just *happens* to play MP3s and do it quite seamlessly and fast like, mind all the bickering, no other MP3 player has ever before!
Wait to see how much Smartdisk charges for it's new 'FireFly' 5GB disk drive! Here's some news : that hard drive is the same one in the iPod, which also happens to be the same Toshiba drive that markets for what, $399 I hear? Talk about overpriced, I don't think so! Sure, the mainstream can't throw $399 away so quickly, and sure, Apple will do their best to drop the price, but that price doesnt really turn me away as most people are saying it does to them...
Honestly, this thing *isn't* an MP3 player! I'm seriously thinking about buying one... and the jukebox isn't my biggest reason. Think this way, both Windows and Macs should be able to recognize iPod as a HD. I can think of no better way to move data around! Simply cart the iPod to work, work on your projects, unplug, take home, and keep on working... the perfect solution! Hell, you could even throw an OS on it and keep your *whole* system on it, plus with room to spare. I mean it wasn't *that* long ago that a 4 GB HD was a huge amount of space, right?
Just my two cents... Apple just needs to define this thing a little better... stop selling the ' iPod MP3 player ' and start selling 'iDrive Portable Pocket Sized 5GB drive with MP3 playing capabilities '
Matt
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Lexington, KY USA
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Let's be reasonable.
Yes this thing is expensive, and from most posts, only by about a hundred dollars,. Now lets look at the HD from toshiba which was made available on this URL
http://www.toshiba.com/taecdpd/produ...mpl-Over.shtml
Now some will argue, "...use cheaper components..." Please, you get what you pay for plain and simple. Then some will argue, use a bigger drive like the nomad, it doesn't have to be as small as a deck of cards. I sell this stuff at CompUSA, and if you've seen the Nomad, youd know that it is horribly large, and unattractive to boot., plus the interface on the Nomad is rough at best compared to this thing. But all tha† aside. If it were three hundred dollars instead of four and was made by, let's say compaq, would you by it? NO! WHY! Because it wouldn;t be as compatable with iTunes as the iPod is, and I doubt it would have the slick interface of the iPod, or firewire. So the question is, if you could pick out any MP3 player on the market, and pay Stevo a hundred dollars to fix all the mistakes would you? Ofcourse we would, and what would the best be? Well, it seems that everyone agree the 6 gig Nomad. Now Stevo traded a gig for a better size, and we are paying those wonderfull people at Apple to provide us with the best. Is it expensive? Yes, but so is a cadilac. When I want quality I want Apple, when I want Kroger brand, well, I don't do Kroger brand. I love the work that the people at Apple do, and I would not ask them to work for free, and a hundred dollars is not too much to ask for their skills. So what do we have to be mad about? That fact that while this might be a nice Christmas present from Stevo, it isn't what we ask for. Next christmas make it a PDA.
Support Apple and it's wonderful employees, buy and iPod
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Si vales, valeo.
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<Dave>
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One point : iDrive is a trademark of BMW cars, as it is the computerised system that controlls all aspects of the new 7-series luxury car.
Just to let you know....
Dave
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Enschede
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and btw: I read IPOD is somehing Intel cliamed for some communication thing....
hope this isn't coming in court...
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iMac G5 2.0 Ghz 20", 2 GB RAM, 400 GB, OS X 10.4.5, iPod with color screen 60 GB
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: 'round the corner
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Wait to see how much Smartdisk charges for it's new 'FireFly' 5GB disk drive! Here's some news : that hard drive is the same one in the iPod, which also happens to be the same Toshiba drive that markets for what, $399 I hear? Talk about overpriced, I don't think so! Sure, the mainstream can't throw $399 away so quickly, and sure, Apple will do their best to drop the price, but that price doesnt really turn me away as most people are saying it does to them...
I agree that people are thinking this is a really expensive MP3 player and not a really usefull fast portable harddrive...woe is apple
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