I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Saturday, February 26
And Two Weeks Later
They cut the price of the iPod by a third.
Grrr.
You can't win.
On Wednesday I ordered a new monitor because I noticed it had come down in price. $770 before Christmas, and only $450 now.
Of course, the reason it's so cheap is that they don't make them any more.
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My gf's dad bought a $15000 42" plasma TV a couple years ago, and the burn-in is becoming noticeable. He was a bit steamed when I got a 63" flatscreen 3rd-gen DLP (that never burns in) for $4000 in November.
Posted by: TallDave at Saturday, February 26 2005 11:16 AM (z0bus)
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Check with the outlet you bought it from you may be able the price cut refunded.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Saturday, February 26 2005 07:33 PM (U3CvV)
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able
to get the price cut refunded.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Saturday, February 26 2005 07:48 PM (U3CvV)
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I bought it direct from Apple.
I've sent them a very polite note pointing out that recent purchasers of iPods may be feeling a little peeved at this point, and suggesting they consider some sort of promotion or rebate to rememdy this.
I
was thinking of getting a Mac mini, but now I'm not.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, February 26 2005 07:49 PM (+S1Ft)
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The interesting thing here is that you're complaining.
So far as I can tell, Moore's Law has drastically slowed down over the last few years. I remember predictions back when I went to college that terrabyte hard drives would be coming onto the market about now. That was about four cycles ago, but processors aren't 16 times faster than they were then; they're actually kinda stuck at about six (at least, in terms of clock speed).
It seems that people have gotten used to relatively stable prices again.
I suspect Apple did what it did because they've started losing market share to Creative and others (Creative alone sold two million MP3 players in the fourth quarter last year), and they need to lower prices because people are realizing that someone else makes MP3 players.
Posted by: John A. Kalb at Monday, February 28 2005 05:48 PM (V/SV3)
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With hard disks, you tend to see prices ticking slowly downwards, 1% or 2% each week. Sure, after a few months they'll be significantly cheaper, but then you've had your drive for a few months.
Apple just applied six months worth of price reductions in one go. That's going to irritate people.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, February 28 2005 06:06 PM (+S1Ft)
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Friday, February 11
On The Other Paw
Browsing through the little booklet that comes with my iPod while it formats, I come across this goodie:
You cannot switch from using iPod photo with a Mac to using it with a Windows PC (or vice versa) without erasing all data on iPod photo.
You
morons.
This of course explains why the miserable piece of crap decided it had to be formatted before I could use it. (It's still bloody formatting.)
Look, Apple, I have a PC and a Mac. You want to sell Macs to PC owners, you have to make the iPod work with both. None of this insane reformatting bullshit, it has to just work.
Now stop sitting on your thumbs and fix it.
(I deleted the first version of this post, in which I was rude.)
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there are alternative iTunes software and firmware patches you can get to address the multi device issue...
I just opted for the easy life and didn't buy an iPod!
Posted by: Rob at Friday, February 11 2005 06:34 AM (kXZI6)
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What? iPods work with both!!
Posted by: Cleopatra at Friday, February 11 2005 06:57 AM (OL7sU)
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Tuesday, February 08
One Would Think
One would think that if one were a major telecommunications company and one had a router that crashed every day, and that there was no explanation for this behaviour and that it had been happening for months, and was causing considerable difficulties for one's customers, that one might take steps to correct the issue, and that one might also consider notifying one's major re-sellers.
Of course, one would be wrong.
Oh, and one might advise one's service staff not to fob off customers by blaming the problem on line filters. This applies doubly in instances where there are no line filters installed.
And you know what? You know what? It's bloody hard to write consistently in the first person indefinite subjunctive.
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Posted by: Susie at Wednesday, February 09 2005 08:43 AM (MYr06)
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If one understood, yes.
Posted by: Ted at Wednesday, February 09 2005 11:11 AM (blNMI)
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Indeed several would, more or less simultaneously.
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