iPod update?
With the "in-store" even at the end of the month, what are the chances that we'll get larger hard drives on the iPod? Probably slim to none, I would guess, given that we got the 20 and 40 giggers in September, but shouldn't we see something along the lines of 50 or 60 gigs here soon, maybe in January?
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Originally posted by tloakley
With the "in-store" even at the end of the month, what are the chances that we'll get larger hard drives on the iPod? Probably slim to none, I would guess, given that we got the 20 and 40 giggers in September, but shouldn't we see something along the lines of 50 or 60 gigs here soon, maybe in January?
I think we won't see an update till at least january. Between then and now I could see a price drop happening for the holiday season to compete a little better with the new HD mp3 devices from eveyrone else.
Originally posted by DMBand0026 The iPod rules, it mops the floor with that dell thing and the napster player. Rock on Apple. [/B]
Agreed. Out of all the ones I've messed around with, it's the best. My music collection is now at 55gb. Yeah, I know, big, right? I don't HAVE to have it all with me, and plus I'd like to encode maybe at a higher bitrate.
Originally posted by tloakley
Agreed. Out of all the ones I've messed around with, it's the best. My music collection is now at 55gb. Yeah, I know, big, right? I don't HAVE to have it all with me, and plus I'd like to encode maybe at a higher bitrate.
You would have to have a pretty huge music collection. Would you be willing to state how much of it is legal? You really don't have to -- better to take the Fifth anyway.
I don't think there's an updating coming that quickly. I mean, it would be great if it worked out so that Apple could get higher capacities out again so quickly. I just think it's a little too soon. I wonder what the inventory situation looks like, though. . .
Originally posted by Big Mac
You would have to have a pretty huge music collection. Would you be willing to state how much of it is legal? You really don't have to -- better to take the Fifth anyway.
Big Mac, I don't mind saying how much of it is legal at all. I would say that 99% of it is legal. I've ripped every CD I've owned since I was 13 (and I'm now 29). I won't deny that I got some stuff off Kazaa a couple of years ago when I was a lowly Windows user, but now I try and keep it all legal. I don't have more than 50 songs I got off Kazaa, because I bought most of the music I downloaded from Kazaa after the fact, becuase, you know, you can get some shoddy-quality stuff from downloading. You know-incomplete tracks, bad versions, etc etc. I also use Furthernet to download some live shows of "jam bands" that I like.
(but wait until december when I can finally afford an iPod)
Price used to promote a better product is also useful. If Apple priced the 20GB at Dell's levels, isn't Apple saying compare us to Dell? When a consumer goes shopping they can settle for the cheaper Creative or they can pay a little more for the better iPod, you see. Too, Apple is better able to give more to resellers than Creative is, so resellers and commissioned salesmen would be more inclined to push the iPod. So giving the Sales channel more incentive to sell you over the competition is more important among retailers than having a cheaper product where everyone keeps a lot less, including the store and the salesman.
Originally posted by Matsu
Riiight... there's so much sales incentive to move iPods that 3/4 of the iPods I've "tried" to test in a retail setting were broken. The only one that worked was in a campus mac shop.
sorry, im confused by your sarcasm
and what was broke on them?
Originally posted by Big Mac
You would have to have a pretty huge music collection. Would you be willing to state how much of it is legal? You really don't have to -- better to take the Fifth anyway.
I've got over 60 GB ripped, and it's only about two thirds of my CD collection. 100% of it is legal.
Originally posted by Big Mac
You would have to have a pretty huge music collection. Would you be willing to state how much of it is legal? You really don't have to -- better to take the Fifth anyway.
Well, I have over 2200 CDs, counting multi-disc sets as 1. Actual number of discs is closer to 2500. How many GB would that be?
When I most recently visited a Best Buy and then a Future Shop, both iPod displays were wrecked. On one the iPod didn't work at all, and on the other the diplay worked but the iPod itself was completely unresponsive and there was no output. At one store the sales woman even said that iPod kinda worked sometimes but (in not so many words) she wasn't going to stand there and figure it out -- want it? take it or leave it.
This argument that the price structure of the iPod will somehow help anchor it into certain markets the way autos or high-end hotels sometimes raise prices to boost sales (with the appearance of exclusivity) is just BS.
Originally posted by bunge
I've got over 60 GB ripped, and it's only about two thirds of my CD collection. 100% of it is legal.
wow.
Originally posted by Derrick 61 Well, I have over 2200 CDs, counting multi-disc sets as 1. Actual number of discs is closer to 2500. How many GB would that be?
WOW.
Originally posted by gsfmark
my music collection can beat up your music collection!!!
Also about 25 SACD's.
Go figure. \