With yesterday’s refresh to Apple’s iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I’ve been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical US$399.
In the iPod’s seven years, a sort of price mean has emerged, settling around US$249 despite countless claims of “more space,” “more battery life,” and, err, “more smaller.” It’s no surprise then that US$249 is the price of a new 120GB iPod classic, a few dollars more than a new model 8GB iPod touch and US$50 higher than the cost of a 4th Gen 16GB iPod nano. Click the image above for the full keepsake chart. [iPod on Giz]
Joy
September 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I feel ripped off. I was waiting for the 160gb iPod classic to come down in price more (and also my 80gb iPod classic hasn’t died yet, so there was no rush to upgrade) and now Apple have introduced 120gb iPod classic. Pppfffttt!!!
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September 12, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Gotta hand it to Apple as the masters of incremental upgrades. Why give the touch or iPhone larger capacity when you can drag it out by offering a volume control and internal speaker this year. Maybe in another year or 2 there might be larger capacity.
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