I guess, now that a week has passed, that I should mention something about Apple’s Super Jumbo iPod Show. Sure, they replaced the iPod Nano with a fat baby version of the iPod Video and they bumped the iPod up to 80GB and 160GB versions and renamed it iPod Classic, but is the real news the iPod Touch?
Sure, its an iPhone without the phone or email parts, but all Apple could come up with was an 8GB and 16GB solid state models? They made the ultrathick iPod Classic 160GB! They can’t stick a slim 30-60GB hard drive into an iPod Touch case and make it a little thicker? Maybe its because they’re charging too much. At $300-400 each, its almost as much as an iPhone.
Oh, but wait! At the end of the Greatest Show On Earth, Jobs announced that he was killing the anemic iPhone 4GB model and cutting the 8GB model’s price by $200 to make it $399. So now the choice is either n 8GB iPod Touch or an 8GB iPhone. This certainly pissed off a lot of early adopters, though. Stock prices dropped on the announcement of the price adjustment.
That Steve Jobs is such a super smart guy!
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written by Tyler Regas \\ tags: Cool Tools
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September 10th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Analysts confuse me. Apple introduces a bunch of pretty awesome stuff, announces that it’s sold a friggin’ MILLION iPhones in two months and are gonna sell a shit-ton more because they just gouged the price, and the stock goes down. Huh? Tomorrow’s headline today: “Apple, Inc. Cures Cancer, Brokers Middle East Peace, Puts Human Settlement on Mars. Stock Down 23″.