iPod nano is born. 2g/4g flash mp3 player...

[asdf_admin]

"supply and demand"

[darkmark]

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And Apple is one of the most greedy computer companies out there. I understand that their products are really well made and all that. But they really try to gouge their customers on pricing.

While it's certainly true that apple loves to charge $50+ for a power cables and such. Other companies are just as greedy. Sometimes in other, less noticable ways such as using sweatshop labor and charging boatloads for customer support. Apple wisely avoided the cut-throat 3% margin PC market. They also still employ americans in california so their operating expenese are much higher than their tiawanese and chinese competitors.

Apple wants to be an upmarket company like BMW which also sells highly over-priced products that have a cult-like following...

[evangelion]

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mmmmh...
prices?

2 gb : $199
4 gb : $249

Ripoff.

Like somone else said, for $50 more dollars you can get 16 more Gigs. But then you wouldn't have the coolest/newest player in Starbucks. So it's worth it.

[phazon]

^^^ Yeah but they're not flash players. Solid state costs more than HDD. Tell me where else you can get a 4Gb flash player for that price, or even a 2Gb one.

You pays your money, takes your choice. My only problem is the battery life isn't what it should be solid state.

[Kobe]

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Apple wants to be an upmarket company like BMW which also sells highly over-priced products that have a cult-like following...

Agreed, you might want to add "stylish" to that. Good point about them employing Americans, that is becoming rare these days. Whenever I call Dell I can hear sitar music in the background.

[umlaut]

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palmer, your video icon is hypnotizing...damn that girl can spread her legs.

[groffhibbitz]

I just got a 60 gig ipod. It's big, but damn even I am having a hard time filling that baby up! BTW, it's really only 55GB...

but I was in the apple store the other day, and you really have to see these things to appreciate how small and cool they are. Pretty neat, but I like my ipod better. As for my girlfriend, though, she would rather have the nano, since the size is crucial for her, and she doesn't need to have as many songs at her disposal as I do..

[algy]

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NANO SCRATCHES EASY... WTF ever happened to R&D?!?

Lots of threads regarding this topic on the boards out there. I can understand scratches here and there, but the Nano seems to be make of soft plastic that can be scratched with a simple press of the finger nail. Fuck That!

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl...15224&from=rss

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3

[Yao]

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So much for getting one in africe..i'd only consider one made out of steel, heheh

[picklemonkey]

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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_200gb_Instructions