… I’d be pretty pissed today…
In case you didn’t hear it, Steve Jobs hosted a new round of Apple product announcements - and one of the things he did was announced that they were cutting the cost of the 8GB iPhone by $200! The folks I really want to see smacking their heads are the ones who WAITED ON LINE for 12 or more hours to get the phone for $599 a little more than 60 days ago… Now not only did they not have to wait in line in the first place - put apparently their device also manage to depreciate at the staggering rate of $2.99 a day! Heck for $399 it almost makes sense to me to buy one… I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an Apple device get such a drastic price cut period - let alone less than three months after release….
The device I have been waiting for - the one I decided would replace my iPod (which has been giving me grief for months anyway) has also been announced… The iPod Touch aka the phoneless iPhone will be shipping on September 28 in 8 and 16GB varieties. Take the phone out of the iPhone and you have an iPod Touch - and I hope to get one before our trip next month.
While the display and WiFi have me excited, I’m not too thrilled about the storage space… Granted I only have about 9GB of stuff on my 80GB iPod, but considering that I a)currently have an 80GB iPod and b) the new “iPod Classic” comes in 80GB and 160GB stepping down to 16GB seems a little daunting…. Especially since I would now own an iPod that could play video…
What I won’t be getting though is a new iPod Nano- or as engadget has been calling it the iPod Phatty…
Finally, on this iPod day - I bring you an old video that you may have seen - how Microsoft would have designed the iPod packaging…
