People also said Steve would never have approved the antenna lines on the iPhone 4.
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Apple to Demote iPod Stock to Accessory Shelves In Retail Stores
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I was thinking yesterday and came up with the idea why the local Worst Try doesn't have interent on their iMacs.
Price comparisons...
Heck, just Tuesday I was online at home and saw that the Magic Mouse was $2.00 off at bestbuy.com. Than a friend called up and was talking about mouse problems So off I go to the store to get another mouse. Guy starts ringing it up, and I say 'It's two bucks off on the worst try site', and he stops to check, and grudgingly gives me the price match.
That has happened MANY times...
Sure.... but I liken this to sales of cameras. Because every smartphone serves double-duty as a digital camera these days, sales have sharply dropped on stand alone camera equipment. Still, there's a pretty big market at the high end, for digital SLR cameras clearly capable of doing more than what's found bundled in a cellphone.
I think this is the same issue with stand alone music players. Apple could put some development money into the iPod classic and come up with a dedicated music player so nice, a market segment would buy it because it was so much better than just using a phone. But the current offerings really don't quite accomplish that.
The Shuffle makes sense at the opposite end of the spectrum; cheap enough so it's practically a throw away item. You can give it to your kid who you don't trust not to drop or lose a smartphone, and you can buy yourself one to use when you don't feel like carrying anything more expensive or physically larger and you simply want to listen to your songs. I can't see why Apple wouldn't continue carrying the Shuffle, at least as a "footnote" item that's briefly mentioned someplace and stocked for whoever wants one? Might be a good move to offer a new version that can pair to bluetooth headphones or speakers though.
I think this is the same issue with stand alone music players. Apple could put some development money into the iPod classic and come up with a dedicated music player so nice, a market segment would buy it because it was so much better than just using a phone. But the current offerings really don't quite accomplish that.
The Shuffle makes sense at the opposite end of the spectrum; cheap enough so it's practically a throw away item. You can give it to your kid who you don't trust not to drop or lose a smartphone, and you can buy yourself one to use when you don't feel like carrying anything more expensive or physically larger and you simply want to listen to your songs. I can't see why Apple wouldn't continue carrying the Shuffle, at least as a "footnote" item that's briefly mentioned someplace and stocked for whoever wants one? Might be a good move to offer a new version that can pair to bluetooth headphones or speakers though.
Except the only way to go is the "audiophile" market - and (rightly or wrongly) iPod does not have a huge reputation for sound quality... and we're talking audiophiles with "golden ears" here so however much technical attention Apple lavished on it the only real solution would be to remove the Apple logo and sign a licensing deal with Arcam or Denon or someone... Its not as if Apple would have the field to itself (google "audiophile MP3 players" and, no, it doesn't redirect to the wiktionary page for 'oxymoron').
Equally, Apple could try making a camera (again) - but they'd be up against brands like Nikon with a reputation for optical quality older than Apple. At the least, they'd have to license a lens brand (e.g. Sony have made cameras with Zeiss lenses, and Panasonic make Leica-branded digital cameras).
Plus, its pretty important for Apple to keep up the message that the best music player (and best camera) they make is the iPhone. That's where the money is.
A friend of mine bitched and complained about the 'sound quality', and he said that he was going to rip the highest quality that he could. I tried to warn him, but...
He's back to the 'regular ripped files, and isn't complaining as much...
IF the iPod classic-Audiophile Edition came with a 20 terabyte or larger drive, it would be awesome, but it would still be HUGE and impractical for carrying...
Just because they profit from it doesn't necessarily mean they care about it. But yeah, I agree that there's pretty solid evidence that Steve cared more about their music branch than the rest of them.
the signs take little to no space, and their purpose is greater than the details it provides, it also allows someone to make a purchase and request someone to come by to complete the transaction. theres nice self servicing options that could be used for them.
It isn't rocket science to produce an interactive 'canned demo' app that you can quit or hide, but that re-starts & full-screens itself after 2 minutes of inactivity. Might be a bit ambitious for the techies at Walmart but maybe, just maybe, someone at Apple could figure it out.[/QUOTE]
Well they have before and it wasnt that great of an experience, it was always in the way of the overall user experience. thus the signage which do the dynamics of it vs only being on the screen at once..and if its in use then other customers couldnt learn or figure it out.