Re: Storage media sizes exploding

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Romeo Rondeau wrote:

> Soundhaspriority wrote:
>> "geoff" <geoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:Z6KdnefW47O6GILVnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is
invented 
>>> and the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be able to store
10 
>>> billion songs on our 'ipods'.
>>> 
>>> Why don't they say that we can now store one billion songs, and  they 
>>> won't have to sound like crap ?!!
>>> 
>>> geoff
>> German has a word, "zeitgeist", which has come to mean "the spirit of
the 
>> times."  Today's zeitgeist goes against quality. We would have to hope
for 
>> a renaissance of quality.
>> 
>> Bob Morein 
>> 
>
> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If you
want 
> quality buy something that was designed for it.
>
Now this is amusing. It's hard to tell whether you are using "iPod" in a
generic way or not.

People buy iPods for the name.  They buy mp3 players, the iPod being one
of many types of mp3 players, for convenience.

"Quality" when referring to mp3 players is about durability.  One might
even bring in lifespan for a given price, since I get the impression
that iPods don't have that long a lifespan yet you are paying a premium
for that name.  A $30 mp3 player doesn't have to have much durability,
since the cost of replacement is small, yet they likely have as
much durability and lifespan as an iPod.

   Michael