Filed under: iPod Family
Shuffle price drop
After this morning's store downtime the Shuffle product page shows a $30 price drop to $49. If you're in the doghouse for not getting a Valentine's Day gift for your significant other, this might be your opportunity. Of course, I don't know what meaning might be construed from giving your sweetheart runt of the iPod family, but it might be taken better than the heart-shaped box of chocolates you picked up in the check-out line.
What am I saying? Mac users are romantics in addition to being snobs, right?
Thanks Mog!
Update: Woah! In all the excitement we missed the fact that Apple has also announced a new 2GB shuffle that will sell for $69 when it is available later this month (our friends in the UK will be paying £32 for the 1GB model and £45 for the 2GB model) .
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Cameron I Drysdale said 8:43AM on 2-19-2008
How does buying an iPod automatically make you a Mac user?
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jus10 said 8:49AM on 2-19-2008
Well, first my girlfriend got me a 20 gig refurbished 4th gen iPod.
Then I bought a Macbook.
Then I traded in the 20 gig for a iPod Touch.
Then I bought and AppleTV.
... iPod + iTunes is an important entry way on the road to Macdom.
I still only have 1 pair of sneakers though.
mark said 8:44AM on 2-19-2008
Xsan 2 as well, according to the Hot News.
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Tim said 8:44AM on 2-19-2008
Also - there is a 2GB version priced at $69! http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/19shuffle.html
As well as XSan 2 is out :) !
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mentalsticks said 8:51AM on 2-19-2008
here in Europe it's still EUR 79, meaning a markup of 134% over the US. VAT, my *rse.
Mad, I tell you. They think we're mad.
(not that I don't think it'll be up here, too, before the sun sets).
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Matt M said 11:21AM on 2-19-2008
Consider this: €79 is roughly Equal to $116 right now. So Europeans are paying $116 for something that costs Americans $69. That's a difference of $47. Shipping from US to Germany costs just $23 and takes about 5 days. Altogether it would still be a savings of €16, assuming you could get someone to ship it there and declare the value and contents correctly so as not to get hit with the VAT charge.
sparc said 9:15AM on 2-19-2008
Yep, still the same price on UK Apple Store. No surprise.
I'm still pissed at the Apple TV remaining the same. That better get reduced when they introduce rentals over here.
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Corinne said 9:35AM on 2-19-2008
Note that the refurbished shuffles have been $49 for a while now... and still are... Think they'll see a price drop too? I sure hope so! Who would buy a refurb when you could get a brand new one for the same price?
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Billy K said 9:20AM on 2-19-2008
Refurb. shuffles are still $49. I'm hoping they'll drop to about $29 and I can add one to my collection.
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SwissFreek said 9:52AM on 2-19-2008
I wonder how long they can keep up this "something new every Tuesday" routine. Notice that this Tuesday's release wasn't *actually* released today, just announced. It doesn't really come out until "later this month".
I know that occasionally Apple has announced products a few weeks in advance of actual availability (and no, the iPhone doesn't count), but does that mean we can expect to see more announcements of things "coming soon" from the company that typically doesn't announce anything in advance? In the past, two weeks has been about a far ahead as they announce. I wonder if this Tuesday routine will stretch that out...
Oh, and for you people that keep holding your breath every Tuesday morning hoping that *this* Tuesday will be the day the new MacBook Pro comes out, I'd venture a guess that if the redesign is actually as drastic as everyone keeps speculating that it will be, it will come out with more of a flourish than your run-of-the-mill "Apple Store Down" stickie note. Just my two cents.
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J A Samra said 10:03AM on 2-19-2008
My $79 Shuffle goes back today. I purchased it 13 days ago and Apple has a 14 day return policy. Lucky I checked apple news this morning.
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halhiker said 10:20AM on 2-19-2008
Too little, too late.
Apple should have reduced the price of the Shuffle BEFORE Xmas and they should have reduced the price to $39. which is more reasonable considering the cost of flash memory these days. They could have sold a few million more if they'd done that.
At this point they should have released an entirely new product perhaps one with a minimal screen at least showing song names and artist. Even at $49 the shuffle is over.
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split.second said 10:36AM on 2-19-2008
As a second iPod, the shuffle is great. Working out and jogging are what its great for. Obviously if its going to be your only DMP then maybe you'll want a screen, and some of those other extras. But as an iTunes user and and owner of an iPod Touch, I don't want to have to switch between media programs to sync my music to my two players. And I have to think a lot of iPod Shuffles out there are second players, used for working out so you don't have to lug around an iPod Classic or Touch or iPhone.
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Billy K said 10:57AM on 2-19-2008
Thanks for reiterating the general consensus everyone landed on three years ago.
David said 11:49AM on 2-19-2008
I love this excitement that Apple is creating around itself. New announcements every Tuesday must be driving people to apple.com (although I don't know how many of those people wouldn't be checking anyway). But as an Apple owner, it's pretty fun to get at least mildly excited to see what Apple's going to do next.
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DirtClod said 12:04PM on 2-19-2008
Also, the aluminum, refurbished iMacs got a significant price cut.
See: http://www.MacintoshOS.com
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Gordon Werner said 12:32PM on 2-19-2008
The mini iPod Shuffle is perhaps the best little gadget ever ... and one of the best examples of minimalist design that still easily performs it's function
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Gordon Werner said 12:32PM on 2-19-2008
The mini iPod Shuffle is perhaps the best little gadget ever ... and one of the best examples of minimalist design that still easily performs it's function
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editonmac said 7:31PM on 2-19-2008
I am soooo angry... I just bought a shuffle at the Apple Retail Store. It is unopened, so could i get my $30 back if i bring it unopened to them with the receipt?
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Paul said 8:06PM on 2-19-2008
They have a 14 day return policy so you should have no problem returning it for the $30.00 credit.