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Apple Drops iPod Shuffle to $49, Adds 2GB Model

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Apple has dropped the price of the iPod Shuffle to $49 ($from $79) today. The $49 iPod Shuffle stores 1GB of songs or up to 240 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format. A new 2GB model has also been introduced at $69.
"At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. "The new 2GB model lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle."
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The Shuffle is still available in the same colors: silver, blue, green, purple and red. The 2GB model won't be available until later this month.

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2GB won't be available til later this month.

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allpar

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Wasn't the original iPod Shuffle also $49? I bought one and I'm pretty sure that was the price.
 
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Motley

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I still don't see it on the website.:confused:

edit: Okay, not available until later this month, so what was the point of taking down the store if the lower shuffle price was already up prior to the take down?
 
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Yves Creebs

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Airforce said:
$49 for 1GB? Pretty much a rip off these days....
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i agree, i just bought 2 gigs minisd for $10 for a cell phone which i can easily control what songs i play (from a screen).

Yea the shuffles are small, but you have to carry a phone, you can have both in one package with better functionality with a $10 sd card.

MacBook Pros!!!!
 
Shacklebolt

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$49 is perfectly fine. You're paying for Apple's aesthetics, not the 1gb. Although I have trouble seeing why people wouldn't pay 20 bucks more for twice the storage capacity.
 
Windowlicker

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It's about time! And that's not so much for the 2GB model, but for dropping the price. The pricepoint is now pretty much right imo.
 
BryanLyle

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I know the original 1GB version was close to $149. I can't remember what the 512MB cost.
 
AliensAreFuzzy

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I think at this point Apple is just teasing the people waiting for the MBPs. They just want to see them squirm. That's the only possible explaination
 
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drenk1976

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The thing I really love is how Apple keep forgetting to pass these price drops on to the other side of the Atlantic.

Think $49 is alot for a 1gb player? Try £49 ($95.63), because that's what it still says on apple.com/uk.

They haven't put the Apple TV down either, so it's still £199 ($388) for the 40gb one.
 
johnnyjibbs

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drenk1976 said:
The thing I really love is how Apple keep forgetting to pass these price drops on to the other side of the Atlantic.

Think $49 is alot for a 1gb player? Try £49 ($95.63), because that's what it still says on apple.com/uk.

They haven't put the Apple TV down either, so it's still £199 ($388) for the 40gb one.
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It sucks doesn't it! Still, the UK store didn't go down so I can only imagine that it will go down a little later.

£25 for a shuffle would be sweet, but something tells me it will be more like £35. Don't forget that "it costs a little more to do business here."
 
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