pshing said:i personally think that apple's move is to compete with low end market.
In term of high end mp3 player, creative has not yet able to win over apple ipod. So, apple just wanna to expend its market share by launching this "super low end" mp3 player.
I think mr sim should understand this and just "act cool" in front of screen. As not everyone in developing countries can afford a full function mp3 player, apply's shuffle should be able to eat quite a portion of market shares. Apple doesnt seem like wanna to make money out of this. It is just a tool to kill other small mp3 producers only, in my opinion...
kegler said:dun see any lcd screen on the shuffle... hmmm....nowadays even a cheapskate mp3 player comes with lcd screen ...quality not important... but w/o it.... whose gonna remember all the 100+ songs sequence? wats e next song? etc
Blind brand loyalty? :devil:Vulpix0r said:Oh great, another stupid gimmick which the sheep crowd will accept and call it a revolutionary product after paying for an overpriced product, and proclaim blasphemy if anyone were to say anything negative about it, be it factual or not.
ckiang said:Blind brand loyalty? :devil:
Kho King said:I think the write-up above has been edited, as I remember mr. Sim saying a few times Ipod Shuffle is a JOKE!
whatever he said, I am sure Ipod shuffle will still sell very well...as Ipod is already an icon now...something that everybody wants! The design is unique and the name is even much better than the so called zen... :bsmilie:
Vulpix0r said:Oh great, another stupid gimmick which the sheep crowd will accept and call it a revolutionary product after paying for an overpriced product, and proclaim blasphemy if anyone were to say anything negative about it, be it factual or not.
Facts:Canonised said:FACTS :
1. Creative products are better value for money
2. Creative products are "more" advance technologically
3. Creative products are not marketable in the world biggest markets, USA, Japan, Korea and China! They are doing very well in "just-developed" countries.
Look cool? I hope people dun start buying Macs and say they want to be part of the 'cool crowd' and ask, "Where is the start button to shutdown the Mac?" :bsmilie:FACT:
All my known friends somehow still carry the Apple MP3 players .... ask them why not support Creative, and the answer is always ...."i don't know the reason why i buy Apple.... i just somehow want to look kool!!!"
I'm sure he's not agitated...madmacs said:hmmm...wonder why you sound so aggitated. hey its just another music player. not like its going to break your ricebowl right? oops...unless you happen to be working for creative ;p
eric69 said:Hey, you just jealous of him is it? Ha.
Anyway, I own an IPOD. Yes, Creative is cheaper, has more functions and blah blah blah.. But Ipod is all I wanted.
Vulpix0r said:Oh great, another stupid gimmick which the sheep crowd will accept and call it a revolutionary product after paying for an overpriced product, and proclaim blasphemy if anyone were to say anything negative about it, be it factual or not.
zorro18 said:agree, agree......
the ipod is kool but the shuffle?
It's just marketing hype to psycho gullible pple out there why the shuffle doesnt need lcd screen, fm tuner etc....
the truth is that if they were to include all these features then it makes them no different from the OEM/China-made flash players.
This is the ultimate marketing con! :bsmilie: