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Originally Posted by Dorian Gray
Guys, the price guarantees this thing will be a success. It doesn't matter what its limitations are at $499. In 2002 lots of people paid $499—which was worth a good deal more then—for a clunky, monochrome-screen iPod with a 10 GB hard disk. It played MP3 files, which people copied from someone who had figured out Napster.
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I'm not so sure it's a slam dunk. Personally, I think it's a great price (I even predicted it would be around that price
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But the economy is a whole lot different than it was in 2002. There's a whole lot of people out of work today. Unemployment (US) back then was only around 5%.