Comments on: Retail moves suggest new iPods are coming

Yet another sign that new iPods are around the corner has arrived in the form of inventory moves at Apple's retail partners.

[Staszek]

I love all the people who complain my thing does that and my 20 year old PC with a 21" CRT screen could play music and videos.

Who cares. I feel that the people who complain the loudest, number one know nothing about business, and two dont understand Apple's philosophy to begin with.

Apple has not and probably will not ever have the best bang for the buck product out there, if you want that then you dont want Apple.

What they do have is a great interface, something that anyone from a child to a grandparent can use without reading a manual. I know we are all techno geeks here, but guess what easy sells, and people are willing to pay more for easy and sleek then clunky and confusing.

Lets take the Zune arguably an equal or not better product then the ipod, but its major downfall? Its software was horrible and the store even worse. Sure its fixed now but its to late.

And for someone who said that the ipod is falling, where did you get your data from? They have the most market share of any mp3 player.

As for the business end, why sell yourself short, if you can charge more for a product and the market will support it why would you sell it for less then make a profit. These are companies with stockholders, not a guy working out of a basement.

My last comment is about laptops someone said that they are way over priced. If you match feature to feature with say a Dell laptop they are only $100 difference, Apple just doesnt sell you a supercheap laptop like Dell or Gateway, but those really cheap laptops are no where near the performance of the macbook.

[izmickey]

$100 difference? yea right. You sound like a bit of an apple fan.

[firstkipchak]

New ipods are ALWAYS on the horizon.

[whatnow992]

I agree with you Staszek

[NickL30]

They aren't that expensive and if you have it (meaning the $$$$) then spend it. I have 3 players -- 2 Ipods, 1 Creative Zen & I just bought an IPOD Touch 32G. Each one is for different purposes. I use the nano at the gym for example because it is small. I am not one of these people who bought an IPOD for status and uses the armband which makes most look absolutely stupid. The Creative Zen is good but nowhere near the capability of IPOD and no wireless.

[stevesancarlos]

Status shmatus. Listen, I hated Apple for years. Hated 'em! Even bought a 1st Generation Creative Zen Micro back in the day. P.O.S. Then went to a Nano and never looked back. After leaving it on a plane, went to a Nano with twice the capacity and never looked back. About a month ago went to Florida and forgot my iPod. Decided it was high time to buy a Touch. Purchased a refurb unit to save some $$ and am in love. Other than the battery life in WIFI, can't say enough positive things about this device. Truly versatile, and being able to stream Pandora while working out in my gym is close to nirvana. The UI is fantastic. To me, this is worth every penny, and I'm notoriously "thrifty" in general.

[JWilliams06]

Right on, I truly agree with your comment. My very first MP3 player was a 15GB Dell DJ. Good little player, but nothing near the experience or ease of use that my first (and only) 5th Gen iPod Video was. I recently sold it after 2.5 years of perfect operations and about to get a touch. I was going to with a refurb 8GB, but since they're going to update the products or atleast offer them new at the $200 price point, I think I might wait a bit longer. I expect to have this one at least another 2-3 years.

[dude7895]

Apple overprices there products because few people buy them. Overpricing is the only way for them to make a profit.

[dkjbvdjsb]

OK, so I have owned a zen in the past, a zune player and my buddy just bought a zarchos player (something like that) and I found I did not like zune very much, zen was pretty good but it died on me one day and was never the same after that. After I bought a touch (i agree, too much money) but you get what you pay for. It is ready to go right out of the box and is so convenient for what ever i want to use it for.

[izmickey]

Dude7895 your right. The way they overprice things are insane. Remember when you but a mac notebook they charged you a few hundred to upgrade ram.....RAM MAN. They need to put reasonable prices, not cheap but at least reasonable. Hp sells laptop with 4gb ram 500 or 350 gb harddrives but same if the mac has the same specs, mac is more expensive but close to a $1000. I want a mac book pro so badly but the price is not worth it. I'll just get a nice dell xps.... which has crazy specs.