100,000 iPod minis

[ribitch]

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/feb/17ipod.html

CUPERTINO, California—February 17, 2004—Apple® today announced that iPod mini, the world’s smallest portable music player ever to hold up to 1,000 CD-quality songs, will be available on Friday, February 20 at 6:00 p.m. at the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S. iPod mini is encased in an ultra-portable, lightweight anodized aluminum body and available in a choice of five colors—silver, gold, pink, blue and green. Apple has received over 100,000 pre-orders for the iPod mini which was introduced last month.


“The response to iPod mini has been off the charts,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPod mini broadens the market for iPod by competing head-on with flash-based players. iPod mini costs only about $50 more than a 256MB flash-based player, yet it holds 16 times the music, is smaller, is easier to use and provides superior audio.”


Smaller than most cell phones and weighing only 3.6 ounces, iPod mini builds on the success of the original touch wheel with Apple’s innovative patent-pending Click Wheel, which combines the ease and simplicity of the touch wheel with five push buttons for precise, one-handed navigation.


iPod mini features the same award-winning user interface as the rest of the iPod family and works effortlessly with Apple’s iTunes® Music Store*, the world’s number one digital music service, and the iTunes digital music jukebox software for seamlessly buying, managing and listening to digital music collections. iPod mini uses Apple’s patent pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads an entire digital music library onto iPod mini and keeps it up-to-date whenever iPod mini is plugged into a Mac® or Windows computer.

I guess we were all wrong when we said it wouldnt sell. My fiance wanted to get one, but we found a great deal on an openbox 15GB at an Apple Store.

I just installed a kenwood FM modulator in my car for my iPod. I was sick of the poor quality of the wireless modulators. I am loving it.

[Cheesypuff]

I boycot anything with apple on it!

[ray]

I don't think the Ipod mini is worth $250. It may be catching on and that's great for apple, but you'll never see me paying that much for the item.

[eSDee]

Too bad the colors are so ghey. I would consider getting one if it weren't for that.

[ribitch]

Originally posted by eSDeeLoco
Too bad the colors are so ghey. I would consider getting one if it weren't for that.

i agree on the poor chocie of colors. The silver one is ok, because it would match any of the newer pro hardware.

[verve247]

Originally posted by ribitch

I just installed a kenwood FM modulator in my car for my iPod. I was sick of the poor quality of the wireless modulators. I am loving it.

sounds interesting. Mind giving a review? How does it compare to an aux. plug in?

[bachviet]

No thanks to overpriced mp3 players.

[Showtime]

If I could afford it, I'd get it. Of course if I could afford a Ferrari...

-jel

[Johnnymac]

Originally posted by Cheesypuff
I boycot anything with apple on it!

why the boycot?

[ski]

Originally posted by ribitch


i agree on the poor chocie of colors. The silver one is ok, because it would match any of the newer pro hardware.

A nice glossy royal/dark blue would have been cool, but they probably didn't want it to look like Dell

[irwin]

Originally posted by ribitch
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/feb/17ipod.html

quote:

“The response to iPod mini has been off the charts,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “iPod mini broadens the market for iPod by competing head-on with flash-based players. iPod mini costs only about $50 more than a 256MB flash-based player, yet it holds 16 times the music, is smaller, is easier to use and provides superior audio.”


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I don't understand how he can compare the iPod mini to flash memory-based players. Doesn't the iPod have a regular hard drive in it?

[ribitch]

Originally posted by passwird

I don't understand how he can compare the iPod mini to flash memory-based players. Doesn't the iPod have a regular hard drive in it? [/B][/QUOTE]

MB per dollar and size.

[ski]

Originally posted by passwird

I don't understand how he can compare the iPod mini to flash memory-based players. Doesn't the iPod have a regular hard drive in it?

WRONG WRONG WRONG! (not to your post, passwird, about the Apple statement)

iPod mini:
3.6" x 2.0" x 0.5"
3.6 oz
No FM tuner
8 hours playback
4GB
$250

iRiver iFP-390T
3.2" x 1.2" x 1.1"
1.8 oz
FM tuner with FM recording, voice recording
23 hours playback
256MB
$200 from Best Buy

Dudeman forgot to mention that the $50 cheaper MP3 player is half the weight, 3 times the battery life, and has FM tuner capability.

These aren't apples and apples being compared. Much like you can say $50 more will get you a 15GB iPod over a 4GB one.

[Cheesypuff]

Originally posted by cracker


why the boycot?

becuase apple is over priced POS!!!!

[eSDee]

Originally posted by Cheesypuff


becuase apple is over priced POS!!!!

Don't be brainwashed man. Overpriced maybe, but not POS.

[Leon]

The iPod mini I like because that 4GB microdrive in there is underpriced.

[eSDee]

When is the MUVO2 coming out? I wonder if the ipod mini will have a bigger drive by then?

Edit- can't find info on the Zen Xtra 40G. Being that it is 40gb it can't be a compact flash, which is what makes the mini such a tempting purchase. Can't really compare them that way.

[Joshua]

Originally posted by skiAtomic

A nice glossy royal/dark blue would have been cool, but they probably didn't want it to look like Dell

I believe HP is coming out with a blue HP branded Ipod licensed from apple.

[ribitch]

part of the appeal of th iPod line is the interface and apples attention to detail. Other manufacturers have attempted to copy it but none has succeeded. With apple, you tend to get what you pay for. Theres a reason why apple makes the #1 MP3 player.

[kimchicowboy]

all i know is that i look at the iriver HDD-based MP3 players and they have real nice qualities. my coworker was debating between an ipod, iriver iHP-120, creative one, and dell one. the iriver had the most features and was relatively cheap for what you got:

20 gig
up to 16 hours playback
integrated FM tuner
backlit remote
voice recorder
and i thought it was pretty cool how it supported title tracks in other languages. (dunno if the others do that). sure, it isn't as pretty, but sure is functional.

[verve247]

I never understood anyone's interest in an fm tuner. When you have an mp3 player that can hold anywhere from 4 to 40 gb of music of your choice and playing according to your playlists, why settle for fm quality music that is continually interrupted by commercials and DJs? Granted it's nice to have something just for the sake of having it, but why have something you will probably never use?