{"id":344,"date":"2004-01-08T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/01\/08\/earth-to-apple-the-mini-ipod-price-suc"},"modified":"2007-04-02T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T20:26:52","slug":"earth-to-apple-the-mini-ipod-price-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/01\/08\/earth-to-apple-the-mini-ipod-price-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth to Apple, the mini iPod price sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a298'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I saw th eMacworld 2004 Keynote and it wasn&#8217;t that bad.  Some nice improvements to iLife but the most disappointing thing is the iPod.  <a href=\"http:\/\/jonboy470.homeip.net:8080\/mt\/\">JonBert<\/a> sums it up quite nicely for me:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\nThe iPod mini is more of a question-mark. $249 for 4GB? Sure it&#8217;s smaller, and comes in different colors, but as it is it would need to be under $200 to stop registering on the Lame-o-meter<br \/>\n<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n You tell em JonBert.  The price sucks, I don&#8217;t care how small and cute it is.   I understand the prices on the componetns isn&#8217;t cheap but I&#8217;d rather buy one of these things with the understanding it can die at anytime in a couple of years and I can just buy a new one and toss the old one.   When you have to put $250 each time that sucks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/jonboy470.homeip.net:8080\/mt\/000080.html\">JonBert laying the smack<\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/archive\/expojan2004\/\">Macworld on Macworld<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw th eMacworld 2004 Keynote and it wasn&#8217;t that bad. Some nice improvements to iLife but the most disappointing thing is the iPod. JonBert sums it up quite nicely for me: The iPod mini is more of a question-mark. $249 for 4GB? Sure it&#8217;s smaller, and comes in different colors, but as it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1215,1213,1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripe","category-mac","category-stupid"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}