“A little video for everyone” who hasn’t purchased an iPod already
I purchased my iPod Nano 8gb Black three months ago. I love the iPod and use it to listen to podcast at my desk, in the plane, at the gym, and in the car. I paid the $199 price tag for my little gadget, so when I saw that Apple was launching a new iPod series with video as a standard feature I figured it would be at least slightly more expensive.
The problem is that it wasn’t more expensive! This is utterly unfair. It has been only 90 days and the new device costs the same as what I paid for my -now- dinky iPod Nano Sans Video, but packs a lot more punch.
This raises an interesting problem that my father has when researching new products — he is always reluctant to make a consumer electronics purchase because in a week, a month, a quarter, the same device will be significantly cheaper or there will be a new model with much more capacity, battery life, and features. Clearly, he has good reason to be concerned.
I will attempt to sell it on eBay, but the prices are ranging from $62 to $122. Is it worth taking a $75 dollar loss to enjoy the new iPod with video?
The fundamentals of Moore’s Law that explain our advances in technology, also show how it’s such a bad time to be an electronics consumer.
October 15th, 2007 at 5:43 am
It’s not worth it. The screens are so tiny you can’t really enjoy the video feature. I have a 30 gig one and I absolutley never use the video screen anymore.