Wie af en toe de commentaren op de iPod mini bekijkt zal al hebben gemerkt dat veel mensen de iPod mini geen schijn van kans geven vanwege het prijsverschil van maar 50$. De Wall Street Journal denkt daar anders over.

Citaat: We don’t want to sound like some annoying old relative, but these critics missed the rather elementary fact that different people care about different things. For every buyer of an MP3 player who cares about capacity, there’s another one who cares about size. Or style. Or both. ….. And for plenty of music fans there’s no real difference between 1,000 songs and 3,750 — they’re both “enough.” As one Slashdotter who saw the light wrote, some people “can’t justify $299 just for space, but might justify $249 for style.” Tja wie zal het zeggen maar dit zijn commentaren uit 2001 tijdens de introductie van de eerste iPod

Citaat: – “I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player?” – “All that hype for an MP3 player? Break-thru digital device? The Reality Distiortion Field is starting to warp Steve’s mind if he thinks for one second that this thing is gonna take off.” – “Better bring that price down or you wont sell any of these babies” Mac Rumors