Letters to Apple complaining about the difference of $50 between iPod and mini are not going to change anything. Apple will just write back and say how much better value a mini is over a $200 512MB/256MB player, (and how the 15GB regular iPod is even better value per GB, but that's a slightly different market).
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had a cheaper 2GB mini in the works, ready to be released in 6-12 months time, depending on when it becomes commercially viable and the iPod mini has had time to establish itself in the marketplace. Right now, plenty of people will pay the premium for the 4GB model so it would not make sense to release a lower capactity model (if they could anyway).
Anyway, it's wise not to complain why one thing is better value than another, becasue we end up being worse off. We don't want Apple getting the idea that the 15GB value could be sold for more now do we? (Similiarly, when complaints were made in Britain about women retiring at 60 instead of 65 (as do men), the government just raised the retirement age for women to 65. When people complained that CDs were far more expensive than cassette singles and albums, they put up the price of cassettes to about the same as a CD, without changing the CD price!)
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had a cheaper 2GB mini in the works, ready to be released in 6-12 months time, depending on when it becomes commercially viable and the iPod mini has had time to establish itself in the marketplace. Right now, plenty of people will pay the premium for the 4GB model so it would not make sense to release a lower capactity model (if they could anyway).
Anyway, it's wise not to complain why one thing is better value than another, becasue we end up being worse off. We don't want Apple getting the idea that the 15GB value could be sold for more now do we? (Similiarly, when complaints were made in Britain about women retiring at 60 instead of 65 (as do men), the government just raised the retirement age for women to 65. When people complained that CDs were far more expensive than cassette singles and albums, they put up the price of cassettes to about the same as a CD, without changing the CD price!)