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The Genius of iPod Pricing

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Who ever came up with the pricing on the iPod models is a genius. I was talking to a friend yesterday who was shopping for iPods. He was saying how he has no idea which model to get, because the next model up always offers more storage with a better price/storage ratio. And for just $50 more you can usually double your storage, or come close to it.

Take a look at the price per GB on the different models:

ModelPricePrice per GB
iPod Shuffle 512MB$100$200
iPod Shuffle 1GB$150$150
iPod Mini 4GB$200$50
iPod Mini 6GB$250$41.67
iPod 20GB$300$15
iPod 30GB$350$11.67
iPod Photo 60GB$450$7.50

Here's a graph:

ipod price chart

The reason this pricing is genius, is because you can start out thinking you want a $100 ipod shuffle, and then you can logically justify going with the 60GB iPod photo (if your thinking about price/gb)

I told my friend the mini is probably a good bet for him, he is probably going to use it for the gym, and for driving most. I have a 15GB iPod and I only have only put about 8GB worth of songs on there, even though I have a lot of music, I don't need, or want it all on my ipod, I keep music I listen to often on there.

How full is your iPod?



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On 03/31/2005 at 11:41:42 AM MST Brian Rinaldi wrote:
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I have a 15 gig too and mine is so full that I have to remove songs just to add one. Currently, I have a whopping 556kb free on mine.

On 03/31/2005 at 11:58:28 AM MST Rob Brooks-Bilson wrote:
2
I have a 40GB ipod, but it only holds about 7k of my 18k songs on it.

On 03/31/2005 at 8:11:42 PM MST John Benson wrote:
3
I have two one 20GB and 40GB. The 20Gb is mainly used for music and only about half full. But the 40Gb one I use more as a hard drive and have about 2GB free. Time for some spring cleaning I guess.

On 04/05/2005 at 8:54:48 AM MDT bishop wrote:
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The ipod shuffle is the most poitless creation ever ...

On 04/27/2005 at 5:14:46 PM MDT Alex Nguyen wrote:
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Dude, I have an iPod Shuffle and I think it's the most awesome thing ever. I don't even notice that it doesn't have a screen, I have my playlist practically memorized. Flash means I can wack it around all the time with out fear of crashing the hard disk. It's about time Apple entered the Flash market anyway.

On 12/22/2005 at 11:59:03 AM MST Andre wrote:
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Another useful thing would be to trace prices x models along the years, so we could know the best time to upgrade ;-)

On 08/02/2006 at 11:47:54 AM MDT Jeremy wrote:
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I have a 30gb model with about 12gb of free space on it.

On 11/22/2007 at 4:32:20 PM MST John wrote:
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