Can Steve Jobs save the iPod?

Iria · Sep 4, 2008, 10:53 PM

One of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket?
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Source: CNNMoney

Zardon · Sep 4, 2008, 11:05 PM

maybe you want a few thousand?

Customgamer1 · Sep 5, 2008, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

maybe you want a few thousand?

lol, but really I don't think he should be to worried.

Not to many people want or can afford the Iphone or any smart phone for that matter. The $200+ for the phone is not the problem its' the $1,200+ for the data plan, talk time, whatever else that you have to pay for every year.

Over the course of 2 years that most of them make you sign you are paying about $2,400 around the base price ($100 a month) is a complete and total rip off.

The Ipod touch is just as good, and a heck of a lot cheaper

ExitiosuS · Sep 5, 2008, 04:22 AM

>>

I love my iPhone. lol

Customgamer1 · Sep 5, 2008, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ExitiosuS

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I love my iPhone. lol

I agree Apple's Iphone is a cool phone, but is it worth all the money that goes with it? Well of course it's your call and I think HELL NO and you say HELL YEAH lol...

I just don't have that amount of free cash laying around each year to be able to afford a phone like this nor even if I did still don't think I would fork out that much.

For $1,200 every year I could buy some nice stuff.

Zardon · Sep 5, 2008, 08:41 AM

The iphone is nice, I agree. Although after using the Nokia E71 the iphone looks a little poor imo.

BlueMak · Sep 5, 2008, 08:53 AM

I think the iphone is impressive and cool, but even if I could afford one, I wouldn't get one. I prefer mobile phones of the candy shape and I just love my SE phones, so...
While my phone can play music and has a memory stick for more, I never use it as a player. I hate the idea of something happening and needing to use the phone but having wasted even that small amount of battery for music...call me paranoid lol. I have a Sony network walkman (nw407 IIRC) and a creative zen stone plus for my music on the go.
What I am trying to say is, I can't see the classic mp3 player (ipod too) to have a serious problem in the long run.
Too many people like me.

Sep 4, 2008, 10:53 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Can Steve Jobs save the iPod? One of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket? _____________ Source: CNNMoney

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BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,478 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I think the iphone is impressive and cool, but even if I could afford one, I wouldn't get one. I prefer mobile phones of the candy shape and I just love my SE phones, so... While my phone can play music and has a memory stick for more, I never use it as a player. I hate the idea of something happening and needing to use the phone but having wasted even that small amount of battery for music...call me paranoid lol. I have a Sony network walkman (nw407 IIRC) and a creative zen stone plus for my music on the go. What I am trying to say is, I can't see the classic mp3 player (ipod too) to have a serious problem in the long run. Too many people like me. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Sep 4, 2008, 11:05 PM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	maybe you want a few thousand?

Sep 5, 2008, 04:22 AM	#4
ExitiosuS Simian Masterpiece! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, Ont. Canada Posts: 358 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	>> I love my iPhone. lol

Sep 5, 2008, 08:41 AM	#6
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	The iphone is nice, I agree. Although after using the Nokia E71 the iphone looks a little poor imo.