Comment Re:Reasons Apple WON'T Like This (Score 1) 328
Well, there's a bit of a difference between buying an iPod with an iMac, and buying an iMac with an iPod :-). You're saying that someone walked into the local Apple store to buy in iPod, and realized that they needed to drop an additional $1200 (lowest priced new Mac available w/FireWire) just to use the $400 mp3 player they came in to buy, and said "Okay. Where do I sign?"? You'll have to excuse me for being somewhat skeptical.
Now here's how I could see it possibly working:
Joe User walks into the Apple store to buy his new iPod (already owning a Mac w/FireWire). As he walks to the counter, he sees all these shiny new TiBooks/iMacs/G4s, and in a fit of impulse shopping, gets talked into buying a new machine. That's a bit more reasonable.
But to think that someone at home on the couch, watching a kewl iPod commercial on TV, says to themselves "Man. That iPod sure looks cool. Too bad I need a Mac to use it. Wait! I'll just buy one! Just to listen to 100's of hours of mp3s!" is a bit of a stretch.
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Mando
Now here's how I could see it possibly working:
Joe User walks into the Apple store to buy his new iPod (already owning a Mac w/FireWire). As he walks to the counter, he sees all these shiny new TiBooks/iMacs/G4s, and in a fit of impulse shopping, gets talked into buying a new machine. That's a bit more reasonable.
But to think that someone at home on the couch, watching a kewl iPod commercial on TV, says to themselves "Man. That iPod sure looks cool. Too bad I need a Mac to use it. Wait! I'll just buy one! Just to listen to 100's of hours of mp3s!" is a bit of a stretch.
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Mando
