New Goodie
Apple have always loved to spring surprises whether they're announced or not. Just yesterday their stock price dropped to its lowest in 2 months, slashing billions of the company's market value post Macworld San Fransisco.
Today, they very quietly and discreetly announced the 1GB iPod nano. Yep, a smaller iPod nano at the same capacity as the shuffle. It's got everything the larger ipod nanos do at just 1GB or 240 songs at 128K AAC. it's priced at $149, bumping the 1GB shuffle to $99 and the 512MB shuffle to $69. Apple's stock may be on the way up again.
It seems that Apple may very well quietly discontinue the shuffle in the not so distant future and reduce the iPod lineup back to just two primary models, the nano and the regular. The new nano should sway people from buying the 1GB shuffle especially since the nano has a color screen at the shuffle's old price point.
While many people expect a 6GB nano to fill the void left by the axing of the 6GB mini last September, this 1GB nano will attract a lot of customers simply because it's a more affordable iPod nano.
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On Wednesday, February 08, 2006 4:15:00 PM,I gotta grab me a 512Mb Shuffle before they discontinue them.
This is exactly what I've been waiting for (I actually said to myself that when the 512Mb shuffle dropped to $99 Australian i'd pick one up)
The 1gb nano is nice, but as a flash disk probably a bit too big and too breakable/scratchable. IMHO the shuffle is perfect for working out and carting around the occassional word doc or pdf...
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