Apple introduces iPod mini

Battery life?? All the games?? Playlists on the fly??

No one's going to buy it at $249 when you can get the 15gig for $299. My iPod-less friends were hoping for a $150 iPod.

seems like a waste

So close, but yet again, Apple shoots themselves in the foot with pricing.

Everyone I watched the keynote with asked "Why would I want that for $249 when I can pay $50 more and get 3 times the storage?"

Good question. Why not mark up the iLife by $30 and bring the miniPod down to $149. Even at $79 iLife would be a bargain and still sell like hotcakes.

But as usual with Apple: great product + sticker shock

Would've been better to have intro'd a 2GB mini for $149-$199... already heard from some friends that are saying that for $50 they can get 11GB more w/ the 15GB iPod... $249 for 4GB .. shrug.. someone misjudged the price point me thinks...Only $50 diffrence between a 4GB and 15GB seems, well, wrong. Price could be adjusted before they ship perhaps if Apple feels the need. Right now feels like a iPod cube in terms to price point/ft in the product matrix...

sorry, steve. for another $50 I get three times the capacity.

actually for me at the ed store, it's a $40 diff.

though it doesn't follow the curve either, at $199 or less I would have bought one today.

they managed to shave off 50 dollars on the low end .. which is now.. 15 gigs.. and they took 11 gigs with them!.. wait.. whats so good about this?

and i wanted them to include a remote and docking port and a belt clip with the low end model.. or atleast the (relativly) overpriced mini's

Price will adjust based on what people are willing to pay (if the costs of production can take lower selling prices)

A 2GB at $149, and a 4GB at $199 makes more sense to me...

Shrug

"So close, but yet again, Apple shoots themselves in the foot with pricing."

Same price as the new Rio player, that has a similiar size and capacity.

No matter what they do, people will bitch:

"though it doesn't follow the curve either, at $199 or less I would have bought one today."

No you would've have... you would have said, "If it had been $150... $100... $50... then I'd have bought one."

Do you know why it's $250? Because people will still pay that price. Maybe not you, or the next person reading this forum, but people will buy them.

Give the company that is so "innovative" a little business credit for once.

I don't know Apple... I'm feeling kinda limp...