Evo sam malo sakupio nekijeh komentara i razmisljanja ljudi o novom Appleovom proizvodu. Zanimljivi su i pronicljivi komentari, u svakom slucaju, pa ih dijelim s vama:

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A week after the introduction of the iPod Mini's, the initial furor appears to be dying down. While several have argued concerns about the price, one Wall Street Journal Column offers an alternative perspective:

ABOUT NEW IPOD MINI:

We don't want to sound like some annoying old relative, but these critics missed the rather elementary fact that different people care about different things. For every buyer of an MP3 player who cares about capacity, there's another one who cares about size. Or style. Or both.

And for plenty of music fans there's no real difference between 1,000 songs and 3,750 -- they're both "enough." As one Slashdotter who saw the light wrote, some people "can't justify $299 just for space, but might justify $249 for style."

Regardless, time will tell if Apple has further success with the iPod Mini. Readers are reminded that negative initial reactions are common. Some quotes from the initial iPod Release in October 2001:

ABOUT AN ORIGINAL IPOD:

* "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?"

* "All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field™ is starting to warp Steve's mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off."

* "Better bring that price down or you wont sell any of these babies"

SOME NICE CONCLUSIONS:

* People will decide, and if they want it, they'll buy it. They won't be worrying about whether the big one holds another 3,000 songs -- unless you're crossing the Antarctic, 1000 songs take longer than I care to exercise most days.

* If I add up the money I've spent on lost 128MB USB keydrives, a strap-on iPod is a bargain. It's cool, it'll sell.

* Finally somebody got it... The iPod is for people that want storage. The iPod mini is for the rest of the world. People don't seem to remember that not everybody is a computer geek that needs 40Gb of space. And that is probably 90% of the people out there. The other 10% can choose from the other 3 iPod models.

* Hell, I'm considering selling my 15gb iPod and getting a mini. I thought it would be awesome to store thousands of songs on my iPod, but the truth is I haven't even listened to a 1/4 or them and my iPod is only 1/4 full. I'd sacrifice capacity for size.

* Yes, I am going to get a miniPod, since you ask.....Why? Small and beautiful, like a woman I know!

* Two things never change: Steve hitting the mark and fools predicting he's missed it.