Why the new iPod mini should flop
#1. Price Point. The new iPod mini is only $50 less than a basic 20GB iPod. If I'm going to spend $250 for an MP3 player, you can bet your ass that I'm going to dish out the extra $50 to get five times the storage.
#2. Not Solid State. With today's flash memory getting really damn cheap, there is no way that any small MP3 player should have a HD. Less moving parts means less stuff breaking. It's that simple.
Waiting for a Solid State MP3 player with a AM/FM radio built in.
Comments
Good...I was afraid I was the only one thinking that...$250??? What were they thinking?
The X-Server Raid is nice...but that mini-ipod has to go.
Posted by: Jason | January 6, 2004 9:07 PM
Garage Band looks interesting, but I don't think I would ever use it for anything beyond screwing around (especially with teh primary input being the microphone plug on the Mac. If I owned a Mac, I would definitely spend the $50 and get it. But I don't, so I'll get Pro Tools for my PC.
My guess is that the future is the iPod micro which will be a 1Gb flash drive. And if through some miracle of (insert deity name here) they can make it double as a storage device, so much the better. And yes, I know about the DRM questions on the iPod.
Posted by: Brian | January 6, 2004 9:19 PM