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worker201:

--- Quote from: Lead Head on  5 March 2009, 12:50 ---The 160GB is nice. Odly enough, many brands seem to be going towards lower capacity devices these days.

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I think Apple is the cause of that.  The iPod was a sold well, but the really small iPods with lower price points sold incredibly well because the cost opened them up to a different group of consumers.  Getting into the low cost mass market is just plain easier for non-innovative companies.  The more you sell, the less markup you need to make the same return on investment, which allows companies to price their devices more competitively.  And any market that is strongly competitive will be entered by as many companies as possible.  So there are very few high capacity players, and tons of low-capacity players.  Of course, now that most all cell-phones are mp3 players, the market saturation is such that nobody's making any money.  Except Apple, who sells iPods as the perfect companion to their iTunes software and store.

_ZeroBeta:
I've never really shown much regard for iPhones, and I don't plan on buying one any time soon. My Sony Ericsson phone does everything I need it to do, despite it dating back a few years. Kind of feel sorry for this guy's wife and children, especially if they are desparate to get hold of one themselves. First Microsoft regards Linux as an offensive word, even going so far as implementing this intolerance into their XBox console, and now Bill bans them from his household entirely. It makes me laugh thinking where it'll go next!

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