from the article
The new mini-iPods are intended for people who want a digital music player but do not need one that can hold music from more CDs than most people have any intention of ever owning.
ooooh, snoo-
tay. Because the common person should never own more than, say, 100 CDs, dontcha know. Sheesh. Has the writer looked at the average teenager's collection of CDs nowadays? the average file-swapper's multi-GB's of MP3 files?
The article makes it sound like anyone who dropped a few hundred bucks on a non-mini iPod is going to be looking at the same thing or better for four times less cash after the Expo. Not so! It's just that those who can't or won't spend that several hundred can drop a bit less to get less capacity, and maybe less functionality too. iPod Lite. How's that supposed to disappoint anyone who already has a bona-fide, thousands-of-songs and FireWire storage to boot, iPod? (And of course, all that's only applicable if the rumors are true, anyway!)
You've got to wonder what passes for journalism nowadays. Did they just get this off Reuters, who got it off MacRumors et al? (though they do make the distinction that the color cases will be for the regular iPod, not the mini, which makes me wonder if they've got independent confirmation.) Repeating a rumor, however increasingly likely, solely to pooh-pooh the people who they apparently feel too much money to spend on frivolous items, or maybe have more CDs than a normal person should be allowed, is really....well, it's not journalism, anyway.
/rant
