Apple may soon sell lower-cost iPods
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David Bisset on 2003/12/24:
„Rumors are flying about $100 ipods. This story from cnn money has this quote: The lower-end iPods, which are expected to carry a price tag of about $100 and will hold 400 to 800 songs, are a necessary answer to the bevy of MP3 digital music players now on the market that cost $100 or less, analysts said.“
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„When Panther was released in October, Apple’s Web site inadvertently posted a feature that never quite made it to the prime time. Called “Home on iPod,” it appeared as a small blurb on Apple.com’s “Mobility” page for a few short hours, with the following description:“http://www.stargeek.com/item/37771.html - Cached
„I just checked the apple store and they don't have $169 refurbished ipods. they do have $229 refurbished new generation 10G ipods though. one year warranty and that is enough for me to order one.“http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2003/09/ ipods_on_the_ch.html - Cached
Found at a page of steve, posted on 2003/09/26
„Ok, so it doesn’t have the same ring as Apple’s dubbing. But let’s be honest. There’s not much difference in physical size between the new mini and the full-size iPods.“http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2004/01/07/ ipods.html - Cached
„"..you can play your music on up to three computers, enjoy unlimited synching with your iPods, burn unlimited CDs of individual songs, and burn unchanged playlists up to 10 times each." These are, by far, the best terms you can get for a music service. The big question is how are they enforcing playing music on three machines? I understand that as long as you're in iTunes they can enforce the terms as they control a player, but is there anything preventing me from pushing a purchased MP3 to a PC?“http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/ cat_apple.html - Cached
„Why it's hard & the glimmer of hope: Both Microsoft and Apple spent the 90s and the early 00s fortifying their operating system fortresses against incursion making sure the inhabitants were content while blissfully ignoring other fortresses. Problem with that scenario is the inhabitants start to inbreed and then the offspring get weird. Thanks to the Net and the United States government, Microsoft appears to be open the portcullis and acknowledging that integration is a good thing.“http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/ 2002_12.html - Cached
„MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. confirmed on Thursday a Reuters report stating that a new iPod division had been set up at the company, splitting the Macintosh and iPod hardware segments. While Apple said this would allow the company to focus resources on the iPod, analysts believe that it solidifies the importance of the iPod within Apple and could be the start of something bigger for the company, such as the release of other digital devices.“http://www.stargeek.com/item/51889.html - Cached
„JOEL JOHNSON -- MacMinute reports that last quarter Apple sold more iPods than Macs, with an increase in sales of 900 percent over a year earlier. This is the first time the iPod--now with a 40 percent share of the MP3 player market--has outsold the Mac line, meaning that the...“http://www.stargeek.com/item/50625.html - Cached
„Mini-iPods: The rumors began with the idea that low-priced iPods would be released, possibly as low as $100. The rumor was quickly snubbed as being impossible, as no news of a smaller form was out--but now, reports would have us believe--and this is considered a very high probability today--that Apple will be releasing mini-iPods, smaller than standard iPods, with only a few gigs of storage, with a variety of colors and styles. Probability: 90% or higher.“http://www.blogd.com/archives/000419.html - Cached
Found at a page of Luis, posted on 2004/01/04
„Last week (October 16, 2003, to be precise) Apple launched the long-awaited PC version of its much lauded, and so far, very successful iTunes subscription-based music download service. The launch was accompanied with plenty of fanfare in the mainstream press for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that iTunes is something of a revelation for the music industry in the sense that it actually gives music fans what they want: legal downloadable music with limited restrictions in an easy-to-use and understand package. Moreover, the fact that Apple released an iTunes for the windows-based world was seen as a shift of strategy on the part of Microsoft-hata Steve Jobs, a fact that Apple™s marketers cleverly manipulated to their own advantage, advertising iTunes for the PC with the great tagline, Hell Freezes Over.ť Financial and industry analysts also praised Apple for this move, because although iTunes has been a success thus far”selling roughly 13m tracks at $0.99 a pop since its launch”its Apple-Onlyť distribution strategy meant that the market for it was rather limited.“http://peacocknine.typepad.com/blog/2003/10/ hell_freezes_ov.html - Cached
Found at a page of Matt Percy, posted on 2003/10/22
„The Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required) is reporting that Apple will introduce a new, low-cost iPod later today. However, the price the publication expects -- US$200 -- is "more than the $100 figure that has circulated on Apple rumor Web sites in recent weeks," but "it's still a sharp enough markdown that Apple hopes will attract a much larger audience of music and gadget lovers." A $200 iPod would likely offer profit margins in the "single-digits or low double-digits" compared with profit margins ranging from 20 percent to 45 percent for its higher-end models, says Charlie Wolf, an analyst at brokerage firm Needham & Co.“http://www.ronntaylor.com/bulbs/000393.html - Cached
Found at a page of ronn, posted on 2004/01/05
„Yesterday's good news that Bush was in trouble was undercut by the bad news that a CNN/Gallup poll showed support for the California recall at 63%, and, worst of all, support for Arnold Schwarzenegger at 40% (compared to 25% for Bustamante). I was walking around in shock for much of yesterday, hit with the brick that we are likely to end up with "Governor Arnold," as he has called himself. According to today's Los Angeles Times, Arnold doesn't even seem to realize that he hasn't been elected yet, starting a sentence with "I am the kind of governor.“http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2003/09/ arnolds_cnn_fan.html - Cached
Found at a page of Jeanne, posted on 2003/09/29
„It's kind of funny watching all these Christmas shoppers on CNN. I keep asking myself this: "Is this news?" Yes CNN, people do shop a lot after Thanksgiving. To my US readers, I hope you had a restful and enjoyable holiday.“http://www.sfu.ca/~joes/jnn/cnn_comments/ cnn25.html - Cached
„Finally, CNN has a serious show during the vacated spot Connie Chung once held. Zahn's program "Live from the Headlines" (7 PM ET) is a fairly decent newscast. It brings viewers up to the minute news coverage, a timeline of the day's events, and goes deeper in a given topic of the day, all in 2-hours.“http://www.sfu.ca/~joes/jnn/cnn_comments/ cnn30_01.html - Cached
„How much can you trust your sources for a blockbuster story when they're basically the only ones you have? And in our current hypermedia environment, would you really expect a newspaper to hold such a story until some alternative sources could be found?“http://mediaminded.blogspot.com/ 2003_05_01_mediaminded_archive.html - Cached
„In any case, here's the money quote from CNN's president of sales and marketing: "The longer the war lasts, the more money we can make...we don't want to capitalize on the war. We're not out there saying, 'We're going to sell you higher ratings for March and April.' The Persian Gulf War lasted nearly three months and we ended up making a significant amount of money over the time period."“http://www.soundbitten.com/archives/ week_2003_02_23.html - Cached
„yeah, this kind of thing and the writeups on the PPC 970 have me wondering why Apple stays with the PPC architecture. From some of the writeups on the 970, it sounds like even the fast G4s are neutered by insufficient bus bandwidth, exacerbating the MHz gulf. Maybe an 800 MHz 750 is as good or better than a 1.7 GHz Celeron: at that price, who cares?“http://notd.blogs.com/notd/2002/10/ cheap_gigahertz.html - Cached
Found at a page of Frank Steele, posted on 2002/10/23
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