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MiniPod makes front page in UK
It would be cool, but I don't want to get all excited like I did when this rumor occured with the "apple christmas Present for music lovers"
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Originally posted by chabig: speculation is fun, but there's no way Apple can sell a 2GB hard drive based iPod for $100. |
Can anyone remember the last time close to a dozen websites were ALL wrong about the same rumor?
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Originally posted by disectamac: Can anyone remember the last time close to a dozen websites were ALL wrong about the same rumor? |
Well, they could all be quoting one another but it's this one that has me curious...
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8365047
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quote: Days after more than a million people paid up to �400 for the most popular hi-tech toy of Christmas, the iPod, manufacturer Apple has announced a cut-price mini version. |
Again, where did they announce this at?
hmmm me thinks perhaps with crazy bulk HD purchasing... they might be able to massively undercut creative and sonic blue and even the all mighty Dull and pull it off at a minimal profit but they would be securing their position.
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Originally posted by vmpaul: Well, they could all be quoting one another but it's this one that has me curious... http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/8365047 |
"Up to 1.3million people bought the iPod for Christmas, including a host of celebrities such as the Beckhams"
Typical UK drunken hack crap by the sounds of it. We're expected to believe that the Beckhams didn't already have a few iPods each?
(clue: David Beckham is rumoured to have spent in the region of $8m on Christmas presents for Victoria. If you have that kind of money, an iPod isn't something you wait until Christmas to buy)
The big problem with widescale rumoring like this being picked up on some fairly prominent sites is that Apple is going to be hammered if the truth isn't quite as sweet as the rumor.
Must drive some execs nuts.
Personally, I'll believe such a low price when I see it, and I hope not too much of the iPod's strengths are sacrificed.
If true, I would think those little flash memory players would suffer quite badly.
Must drive some execs nuts.
Personally, I'll believe such a low price when I see it, and I hope not too much of the iPod's strengths are sacrificed.
If true, I would think those little flash memory players would suffer quite badly.
Only Apple would debut NEW products AFTER christmas. 
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Originally posted by Eriamjh: Only Apple would debut NEW products AFTER christmas.
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Not true, and not fair.
'most everyone uses Christmas to get rid of masses of old stock at full price, then sells the rest off after Christmas at cut price, then introduces new stock.
Unpleasan, but commercial reality. Maybe the three wise men should have given vouchers for the after Christmas sales, then the babe would have got Myrrh 2.0, and more of it too!
looks like new ipods to me.
How can all these people be "certain" Apple can't make a $100 iPod, Apple has the 'ins' with Toshiba, and they are supposed to be releasing a 2 GB and 4 GB quarter sized drive in January.