Why is a $200 Ipod any better than a $30 Sansa if they are playing the
same compressed music?

It's not.

It's called marketing. Where Apple fell short in the hardware business, they
made up for in the marketing department. This goes all the way back to the
original Macintosh in 1984. They're geniuses in that category. More recently
they moved from the PowerPC (Motorola/IBM) processors to Intel, to be able
to compete better with Windows based PCs. Now you can boot to Windows!
Wow... why not save a thousand bucks and just buy a windows based PC? lol

--Mike

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Circuit City to liquidate, shutter stores
Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:08pm EST

By Karen Jacobs and Emily Chasan

ATLANTA/RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Bankrupt electronics retailer
Circuit City Stores said on Friday it will liquidate its assets and
shutter hundreds of U.S. stores after failing to reach a deal to sell
the company.


Good riddance. Circuit City was one of the worst retail stores for
consumer electronics (or anything for that matter) that I can think
of. Sales "associates" walking around with cell phones stuck in their
ear, talking to friends or congregating in groups yuking it up while
customers wait at the register to pay for purchases or need
assistance. We had two in this area, one was in business for several
years, the other relatively new. Both stores had the same cavalier
culture when it came to the customers.



BTW, here's another recent bankruptcy that is really too bad, but it was
inevitable.
"Sound Advice" was a decent mid to low high end quality audio retailer
based in Florida until they were purchased by Tweeter in 2001. Since
then, both companies have been on a downward slide and recently threw in
the towel and went belly up. Good write up on Sound Advice in the
first link.
The second link is why high end, good quality audio equipment is
becoming a thing of the past.
People are more interested in having "thousands" of files of compressed
crap on their iPods instead of high quality recordings worthy of decent
equipment. Sad.

http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/sound-advice

http://www.audioholics.com/news/edit...-down-of-audio


Eisboch


I sometimes play my ipod through my stereo...sounds just a hair below a
well-done CD. Nothing beats an ipod for portable entertainment.

Why is a $200 Ipod any better than a $30 Sansa if they are playing the
same compressed music?

I think you really have to blame Al Gore for places like Circuit City
going under. If he hadn't invented the internet people would have to
go to a store to buy things. Now they can order from the comfort of
their Lazy Boy and UPS will drop it at their front door ,.. cheaper.