Originally Posted by fondie
excluding vat, which you can't really blame on apple :-
£138 in the us
£170 in the uk
though it's not ideal, the difference isn't as big as lots of you make out, and as to the price compared to the standard ipods, what did you expect? to pay 4/15th's of the 15gb version? the cost of storage spice isn't directly proportional to apple either, nor is the entire cost of the ipod tied up in the storage media alone, minaturisation costs money!
an ipod mini would suit my needs better than a regualr ipod would, i don't need to be able to store 40gb of music, the size of the regular ipod compared to the small 512mb solid state players you can get has always put me off.
don't get me wrong, i'd like to pay as little as possible, i'd like to pay the us price rather than the uk one, but in comparison to other 'similar' products i don't think the price they have announced is particularly unreasonable.