I notice that Apple have reduced the price of the 80Gb iPod Classic to
£159 - so everyone (well, Currys anyway) are selling it at that price.
The 160Gb is down to £229.

Is it a loss leader - given that it was nearly twice that price only a
few months ago - or are they selling them off as a precursor to the
iTouch?


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Isn't it just the case that technology gets better (supposedly) and
cheaper at a quite startling rate these days?

The iTouch is a different thing altogether - web borwsing and other
gadgets I believe - and only has 16 gig capacity, which is rather
pathetic in this day and age.

Woody wrote:
I notice that Apple have reduced the price of the 80Gb iPod Classic to
£159 - so everyone (well, Currys anyway) are selling it at that price.
The 160Gb is down to £229.

Is it a loss leader - given that it was nearly twice that price only a
few months ago - or are they selling them off as a precursor to the
iTouch?


bet they never cost more than $10 to make in the first place

Dave xxxx wrote:
Woody wrote:
I notice that Apple have reduced the price of the 80Gb iPod Classic to
£159 - so everyone (well, Currys anyway) are selling it at that price.
The 160Gb is down to £229.

Is it a loss leader - given that it was nearly twice that price only a
few months ago - or are they selling them off as a precursor to the
iTouch?


bet they never cost more than $10 to make in the first place



Got an iPod Nano 'free' with a new iMac recently. It is a very
impressive piece of design/build, but that's relative to any other mp3
player I've had. And this is one piece of technology I want to 'just
work' - my cheap mp3 player does that. So it'll end up on ebay at some
point.

Rob