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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Wednesday, February 25, 2004The iPod MiniFortune: "The iPod mini ($249) packs up to 1,000 songs into a stylish package that's about the size of a short stack of business cards. It's about 40% smaller than a regular iPod, which already was one of the sleeker portable music players on the market. Other than capacity—the mini's four-gigabyte hard drive is dinky compared with the 15GB to 40GB drives on regular iPods—the mini compares favorably with the iPod in nearly every way ... Even so, I wouldn't buy the mini because, for $50 more, I could buy the $299 entry-level iPod, which isn't much bigger physically and yet has more than triple the capacity—15 gigabytes, vs. the mini's four. Market researchers say there's a magic difference between a price of $199 and $249; the former is an impulse buy, the latter a considered decision. If Apple had sold the mini for $199, my impulse would be, it's small, it's cool, it's colorful, it's all I really need; I'll buy it, and my wife probably won't scold me. At $249, however, the purchase decision goes like this: I can get a much better value by spending a little more for a lot more music. In the case of the iPod mini, less is not more." [ Posted at 11:27 AM | Permalink ]
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