Amazon offers up two iPods for the price of one

Since you already bought a 32GB mp3 player with flash storage (so you wont have hard drive issues when used for sports) what would you do with a 1GB screenless mp3 player????? Give it to a friend?

If I was in the market for this particular iPod touch, then yeah I would take advantage of the deal. Unfortunately (for Amazon), I already own an 8GB iPhone and several iPods so I don't have a need for this deal.

I think it's a great deal. Buy the touch for $494. Sell the ipod shuffle on ebay for $40-$50. Poof. touch for $450. Not bad.

actually I think amazon I trying to get people interested in buying the touch from them instead of apple since they screwed up the original shipment of the 32gb touches. Amazon had the 32gb touch on "preorder" with an unspecified ship date for way too long and I think they are doing anything they can to get people to buy it now.

I actually am one of he few amazon had lost by screwing up the touch preship. During "preorder" they had the touch at $475 and with the amazon prime I have, I would have been set. But they refused to quote a ship date and I was not going to wait around forever to get my touch. Not paying the tax would have been great, but I just said "forget it" and picked it up at my local apple store. I ended ip paying tax and had to wait foe them to find theirs in the large stockroom but at least they could give me an accurate availability information.

On well. Maybe for my next big ticket item amazon won't screw up the process.

Heck yeah I plan to take advantage. I've been planning to pick up a Touch to replace a Palm E2. The Palm just doesn't work right under Leopard (nothing I can do will coax contacts onto the stupid thing), and with the apps that were recently added to the Touch, it fills the functions I need a PDA to fill. With the SDK coming out some time soon, it should only get better.

As for the Shuffle, that's just the icing on the cake. I know some don't like the Shuffle, but I think it's about as close to a perfect mini music player as you can get. I still use my 1st gen Shuffle regularly. It's wonderful for taking to client's offices, it's super small and I can concentrate better once I get down to work, and the 2nd gen is just that much smaller.

It's a nice deal, and besides, I can justify it as a business expense since I'll be using them both for business :)

would u guys get the iPod touch over a nokia n810?

n810 has flash support, VOIP, open source apps etc.

iPod touch is beautiful but the unreleased SDK leaves too many questions.

Fair enough Libb, but there is some difference. There are unique uses for each of the two iPods. One is perfect for the gym but doesn't hold much music. The other holds everything but is perhaps too delicate for some activities.

The two different Palm units though, they're kinda the same and they're kinda both crap. I mean, are there any especially appropriate uses for one versus the other? I want to like Palm, I want to root for the underdog, but I've had several of their devices including the most recent T|X and frankly they're little more than junk these days.

I know, I know, Palm has so many great 3rd party apps, but really, few people want one Palm let alone two. Most people want an iPod, and given the option, they'd be happy to take two.

When Palm offers a $99 PDA for free with the purchase of a $299 PDA, the world laughs and kids about it.

When Apple/Amazon offers a $49 MP3 player for free with the purchase of a $499 MP3 player, everybody commends them and calls it a good deal.

I love my iPod Touch and my iBook, but even I see the ridiculousness in this.

I would, only I just recently received my 1G silver Shuffle from TiVo as a result of conning two of my friends into purchasing a TiVo.

Still a good deal though.

If I could justify that much money I'd be there. Sadly I can't...yet. 1st Post!!!