My lunch break for this?
I was with everyone else when Apple released their products yesterday. I had tabs open to all of the popular Mac websites, including even mine and as I refreshed, every new section was more depressing than the previous. The Mac mini with bonjour and a remote is pretty cool but it yields a higher price tag and lacks standalone graphics and is not much more powerful than today’s Mac mini.
Apple’s Hi-Fi boom box, is competitively priced, believe it or not because you can purchase the tiny Bose Sound Dock for $299 and the Klipsch iPod compatible set for almost $400. Neither of those units have a built in battery pack, an integrated power supply, the sound accuracy or the cool Apple integration like a “speaker� setting on the iPod that controls certain aspects of the boom box.
Apple’s leather cases are a joke and no one will be taken by their high price and lack of functionality. Apple’s iPods have always been great but none of their cases, docks, cables or other accessories have been very functional, well priced and fill a need. The only thing for the iPod I fell in love with was the Sport case for iPod shuffle and that’s it. These new cases are $99 and are supposedly Italian leather and say iPod on the front. I can get a case from Proporta, Boxwave or Pielframa (my personal favorite) and spend 30 to 50 dollars less and get a much more capable case with even more features.
Apple has great leverage right now and when they have a special event, everyone comes. A few more events like this and the press is not going to spend their dollars to send people out if Apple releases a boom box and an overpriced case.
