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Originally Posted by vranswer
It'll flop, and shock the world by being Apple's first such product to do so. The iPod name simply cannot carry something that has no real practical use or function. Say what you wish about iPods, they do what they advertise. Only people I can see buying this are ones with money to throw completely away.
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Really? How many BOSE Wave Music Systems do you see in peoples homes? I've seen them all over the place. They serve their function, and people unknowingly enjoy what they hear from them, despite paying a huge amount of $ for them. To be honest, looking at the specs and acoustic design, I'd much rather they had an iPod Hi-Fi, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the 'wave'. If you already have and use an iPod, it's a lot more convenient too.
It would be ridiculous to market it at as 'an iPod boombox that sounds like crap' so of course they have used all their jargon, but then so does every single other manufacturer on the planet. If I wanted a simply boom-box type music system for all the places when you might perfer that over a full stereo rig (kitchens, small bedrooms, dorm rooms, or any place where you've seen a Wave CD player), I'd certainly take this over the compeition (assuming it sounds half decent, which by the looks of it it should).
I've never quite understood why Apple get such negative responses to their products from a particularly vocal minority. I'm sorry they didn't make it for you, or to your specifications, or lied in exactly the same way that every other manufaturer on the planet does about the quality of their product, but with the market standing that they now have, in a sense they are victims of their own success and do actually need to continue to come through on the performance claims of their products.
And regarding it 'running of small batteries' (whoever said that I don't remember), I'm not sure that 6 D cells would be considered a platry amount of power considering it's a class D amp. That's a 22Ah 9v battery. I don't remember anyone saying anything like that about the T-Amp.