http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20041228/1289/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:14:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20041228/1289/#comment-745 Tom Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:24:00 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20041228/1289/#comment-745 Definitely not $710 cool, but $350 cool for my 40gb Ipod (non-photo, however.) Other than the color screen and the size, I really don't see the point of the Ipod Photo . . . if I can't load my photos into it directly from my camera, why bother? And even if it could do that, I still don't think it's worth the price. Apple can't possibly have expected this model to sell much - the price alone takes it way outside of their target-market's affordability range. I think the Ipod Photo line was just a way to garner a lot of press quickly while the competitors launched similar products that don't have the glamorous sheen of the Ipod. It might be more expensive, but based on the lack of reliability I've seen among the non-Apple products, you get what you pay for. If I have to pay extra to make sure I have a hard drive that's not known to randomly fail, it's probably worth the peace of mind. Definitely not $710 cool, but $350 cool for my 40gb Ipod (non-photo, however.) Other than the color screen and the size, I really don’t see the point of the Ipod Photo . . . if I can’t load my photos into it directly from my camera, why bother? And even if it could do that, I still don’t think it’s worth the price. Apple can’t possibly have expected this model to sell much - the price alone takes it way outside of their target-market’s affordability range. I think the Ipod Photo line was just a way to garner a lot of press quickly while the competitors launched similar products that don’t have the glamorous sheen of the Ipod. It might be more expensive, but based on the lack of reliability I’ve seen among the non-Apple products, you get what you pay for. If I have to pay extra to make sure I have a hard drive that’s not known to randomly fail, it’s probably worth the peace of mind.

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