Tuesday, September 13, 2005
iPod Nano, next year's mandatory valentine's day gift
It hasn't been more then a week since the release of the iPod Nano, and already the buzz is starting to pick up, even for an apple product.
Here what I'm sure will be the selling point to a lot of potential buyers: It fits perfectly in the coin pocket of a pair of women's jeans.
Now die-hard iPod users like myself and my friends lucky enough to own one, love the fact that their iPod has something like a 15-30GB capacity. You can carry a good three weeks of music on your iPod, assuming it played continuously and non-stop.
But all the girls we know tend to go for the shuffle, or maybe a mini. And we've always just figured that these girls just weren't big on music.
But in reality, they're just not big on big. Even not that Big on mini.
It something that you don't think about unless you're designing portable consumer electronics, but women are more adverse to carrying things like a PSP, digital camera, cell phone, and iPod around then the average gadget geek, because Pocket space is limited as fuck in women's jeans. Hell, even men's GAP jeans have fairly limited space compared to JNCOs (yes, I can still fit into jeans I used to skateboard with, and yes, I am wearing them at work right now. I rule.) so pocket space is at a premium, and having to use a belt clip for your iPod makes it conspicuous, and possibly uncomfortable if the user sits down or bends over.
Its like some genius frat boy was in charge of the form factor. Its an iPod...designed to get in women's pants!
This will probably be a quick seller to girls that are big on small, and big on music. And of course, that means that guys with girlfriend's should be smart enough to stay ahead of the curve and buy one NOW for their significant other, and just call it an early valentine's day present.
Expect iPod sales to rise, as people buy it not only for the "apple cool" factor, but because Apple understands the MP3 player market segments better then its competitors. Its likely that Apple is once again going to grow the size of the market, and its percentage of the market.
So if you have money to put in the stock market, now's the time, before the Christmas season, and the post-Christmas upgrades to Powerbooks, G5 Mac mini, and iBooks.
I know I'll be checking them out at the Apple store in Pittsburgh this weekend.
Here what I'm sure will be the selling point to a lot of potential buyers: It fits perfectly in the coin pocket of a pair of women's jeans.
Now die-hard iPod users like myself and my friends lucky enough to own one, love the fact that their iPod has something like a 15-30GB capacity. You can carry a good three weeks of music on your iPod, assuming it played continuously and non-stop.
But all the girls we know tend to go for the shuffle, or maybe a mini. And we've always just figured that these girls just weren't big on music.
But in reality, they're just not big on big. Even not that Big on mini.
It something that you don't think about unless you're designing portable consumer electronics, but women are more adverse to carrying things like a PSP, digital camera, cell phone, and iPod around then the average gadget geek, because Pocket space is limited as fuck in women's jeans. Hell, even men's GAP jeans have fairly limited space compared to JNCOs (yes, I can still fit into jeans I used to skateboard with, and yes, I am wearing them at work right now. I rule.) so pocket space is at a premium, and having to use a belt clip for your iPod makes it conspicuous, and possibly uncomfortable if the user sits down or bends over.
Its like some genius frat boy was in charge of the form factor. Its an iPod...designed to get in women's pants!
This will probably be a quick seller to girls that are big on small, and big on music. And of course, that means that guys with girlfriend's should be smart enough to stay ahead of the curve and buy one NOW for their significant other, and just call it an early valentine's day present.
Expect iPod sales to rise, as people buy it not only for the "apple cool" factor, but because Apple understands the MP3 player market segments better then its competitors. Its likely that Apple is once again going to grow the size of the market, and its percentage of the market.
So if you have money to put in the stock market, now's the time, before the Christmas season, and the post-Christmas upgrades to Powerbooks, G5 Mac mini, and iBooks.
I know I'll be checking them out at the Apple store in Pittsburgh this weekend.
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"But all the girls we know tend to go for the shuffle, or maybe a mini. And we've always just figured that these girls just weren't big on music."
I personally have a 20gb ipod. so does my lady friend, kristina. 4gb is just not enough for all of our music. and as for your jeans theory... i wear tight jeans. so do my friends. i can put a few dollars in the pockets and maybe some change. anything bigger than that, and you see the outline of it on the outside. or it just doesn't fit. that's why we carry purses!!!
"women are more adverse to carrying things like a PSP, digital camera, cell phone, and iPod around then the average gadget geek, because Pocket space is limited as fuck in women's jeans"
no we aren't!!! again... purses can fit everything. i once saw a girl who carried a hairdryer in her purse.
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I personally have a 20gb ipod. so does my lady friend, kristina. 4gb is just not enough for all of our music. and as for your jeans theory... i wear tight jeans. so do my friends. i can put a few dollars in the pockets and maybe some change. anything bigger than that, and you see the outline of it on the outside. or it just doesn't fit. that's why we carry purses!!!
"women are more adverse to carrying things like a PSP, digital camera, cell phone, and iPod around then the average gadget geek, because Pocket space is limited as fuck in women's jeans"
no we aren't!!! again... purses can fit everything. i once saw a girl who carried a hairdryer in her purse.
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