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To: Don Green who wrote (42277)	1/12/2005 11:12:16 AM
From: Done, gone.	Respond to of 213182

Apple fumbled the ball with this flash player. Disagree, completely. But they can still sell a lot of them Boatloads. because they are cheap Right. and users don't know any better. Right again. And, many who buy them will find them to be not enough, and upgrade to a better iPod. Double bingo. No fumble. Brilliant marketing. And, a nice basic set up, making for many "upgrade" possibilities in the next flash iPod... Now, if they'd only make the photo iPod actually do photo stuff, even I'd buy one of them otherwise (to me) useless iPod thingies.

To: Don Green who wrote (42277)	1/12/2005 11:13:09 AM
From: Jill	Respond to of 213182

I agree about the computer market, though market share will probably increase some but it's not the main thing. I disagree about the flash player. Those who have an Ipod already and exercise, will enjoy the flash player and brand loyalty and price will make it popular. Clearly not as popular as the Ipod but a good accessory. What I hope they do is create more uses for the Ipod itself, but not photos. I don't know too many people who care about photos on their Ipod. They could also make one improvement on the Ipod which is ability to jump to a letter of the alphabet. Sometimes I want to play a particular song by a particular artist and it annoys me to scroll down to his/her name, takes a bit of time. The shuffle is brilliant because it makes your music interesting to you because it surprises you. The way I play music has totally changed. I just bought some Creative Lab speakers for my computer because now my computer and my Ipod have the same playlists. I don't even bother to burn off my CDs as its too much trouble, I download songs. I don't play my stereo much as a stereo anymore, if I do, I use my Ipod. The convenience, and the fact that it is "your" music library as you wanted to make it, with your own playlists, which is how music categorizes itself in your own head and heart, makes CD's totally irrelevent if not annoying. Though if I was an artist who had made a "concept" album this would bother me. You can't download American Pie from Don Maclean, you have to buy the whole album. I guess that was his protest against the brave new world.

To: Don Green who wrote (42277)	1/12/2005 11:16:38 AM
From: Dan Fleuris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Obviously Apple wanted to lowball the market (thus the $99 price) but not cannibalize it's existing iPods by providing anything like the same functionality (i.e., screen & scroll wheel). Risky, if interesting, strategy. I wonder what would have happened if they just provided similar functionality but relied on drastically lower capacity to avoid cannibalization of higher end products. Dan