10/13/2005 03:55:00 PM|||Joe|||Just a small observation on the release of the new iPod with video support... A lot of people were saying before the announcement that bringing out the video iPod so soon after the Nano would undercut the sales of the Nano. I don't know if anyone else has made this connection, but the Nano was a replacement for the iPod Mini, which was (as far as I know) the best-selling iPod. So if the 4G iPods weren't seen as undercutting the Mini, I don't see the problem here, either.

I'm sure people will quote the tired "bang for the buck" line, but it didn't work when applied to the Mini, so I'm not sure that it's applicable here.

The main difference here, of course, is that the new iPod has some major functionality that the Nano doesn't, whereas the only difference between the 4G iPods and the Minis was form factor and disk space. On the other hand, Apple has its high-end and quasi-high-end products, just like it always has (or at least since the introduction of the iMac way back when).

All that said, I really do want the new iPod, but I'll wait until the next generation or two. Not because I want to wait for bigger, better iPods, but because I already forked over the $300 for my 20GB iPod last year, and I figure it'll be useful for several years. In fact, it better.|||112924482193016142|||Video iPod and iPod Nano