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Bye-bye, Rio
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SpaceMonkey
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Aug 28, 2005, 11:51 AM
 
     
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Aug 29, 2005, 01:16 PM
 
Ah, my first mp3 player, a nice little flash based player.
     
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Aug 29, 2005, 09:45 PM
 
Oh well, such is life.
     
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Aug 29, 2005, 09:49 PM
 
Bah - no one even noticed that they were gone! Apple got more press about their 9/7 event.
     
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Aug 29, 2005, 10:42 PM
 
Damn, and here I thought the Kia Rio was being retired.
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 03:04 AM
 
Oh well, don't think it had much to do with Apple but bye bye none the less.
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Aug 30, 2005, 03:12 AM
 
Apple should buy them
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 03:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Apple should buy them
Is that a joke or what?
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Aug 30, 2005, 04:30 AM
 
No big loss in my book.
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 05:35 AM
 
Originally Posted by Scandalous Ion Cannon
Is that a joke or what?
Well, its' better than some other competitor buying it and potentially doing a good job.
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 06:44 AM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Well, its' better than some other competitor buying it and potentially doing a good job.

Its been sold more times than a rusty Ford Escort, and no one has managed to make any money out of it. One thing Apple could do is buy it, continue making the same machines and developing new technology and the Rio brand in parallel but modify them to work with iTunes only. Having two competitors in one market makes sense (especially as it would drive Quicktime/iTunes adoption), but Apple are unlikely to do it.
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 07:27 AM
 
I still have a couple of Rio 300s that I actually use--until my 60GB iPod shows up later this week, anyway. Nice little boxes with an unfortunate propensity to dislodge the battery (and shut down) if you flexed the case wrong. And they are limited to a total of 64MB (32 built in and a max of a 32MB card). Not bad for a first attempt.

I have to agree that they were a victim of the iPod, but all of the flash-based players are suffering from the expansion of the hard-drive-based players on the market. Why pay $100 for a 128MB flash player when you can pay that much for Apple's iPod Shuffle and get 512MB? Or pay twice that much and get a 4GB hard drive-based iPod Mini? It's the whole "bang for the buck" issue, and tiny hard drives are making flash devices less relevant.

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 01:04 PM
 
My first mp3 player was a Rio 600, and I liked it a lot (minus the fact that one of the buttons didn't work all that well).

Rio made some good stuff, it's just a pity they've been dissolved just before they were about to release some new gear.
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 01:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by Salty
Well, its' better than some other competitor buying it and potentially doing a good job.
What technology did they have that Apple would want?
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Aug 30, 2005, 02:03 PM
 
Originally Posted by Scandalous Ion Cannon
What technology did they have that Apple would want?
A flash-based player with a screen, a real battery and an FM tuner?
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 02:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by ink
A flash-based player with a screen, a real battery and an FM tuner?
Oh right that is something they can't figure out on their own and would need to pay millions for another company to get
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Aug 30, 2005, 03:43 PM
 
Originally Posted by Scandalous Ion Cannon
Oh right that is something they can't figure out on their own and would need to pay millions for another company to get
Well, they should do it already then. :-)
     
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Aug 30, 2005, 04:41 PM
 
my Rio 500 is still kicking.
64 whole megs baby! Almost ONE album
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1787
     
   
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