Announcement, Everyone ...

Announcement, Everyone ...

I've got a sore throat, so I might not be able to go to a gathering tomorrow if it gets worse.

But, on a brighter note, I just bought an iPod. Yes, I know. I'm totally out-of-date, but I've held out this long. They've now come out with the iPod Touch, which ISN'T the one I bought, because I don't think the product is up to speed yet. This first one is just to test the market, hence the lower GB capacity. Just watch; in a year, the capacity will be twice what it is now. In two years, the interface design and capacity will be different. These new ones are just to capture the market that would pay 349 to buy the iPod Classic, which is at its last stretch before the company moves on to something more multi-dimensional and multi-purpose.

In the next couple of years, iPod Classics will only become the waning cash cow for the company's expenses. The iPod Classic might come out with ones that have more than 160GB capacity, but then again, that's just getting ridiculous. This makes the iPod Classic more like a storage device than what it was intended for. Unless you change it up somehow, the majority of the average consumers who are there to buy a high capacity music player is not going to be prompted to buy a 160+GB storage device at a higher price.

So, at 249.00 dollars, I purchased a silver 80GB iPod Classic. I would NOT pay more than 300 for an iPod, and I would not want an iPod with any less than an 80GB capacity. So I think this was just the perfect moment to buy it. Besides, what the heck am I going to do with 160GB as a normal person like me? I might as well buy an external hardrive for less.

OK. I'm done with my geek rant.