500 bucks for a 32GB iPod touch? Damn I can get an EEE PC for that price, install windows xp on it and have everything the iPhone has, xept I can plug DVDs into it.
"I can get an EEE PC for that price, install windows xp on it and have everything the iPhone has"
I hope you realize that you can have everything the iPhone has that you perceive you want, not everything the iPhone has. I trudge into this thread wearily, since I have been privy to this debate since the 1980s.
But do you think, just maybe, that while you do not care for it, there are others who value the design inherent in an iPod's hardware and software that gives them value compared to Windows XP?
Compared to XP yes. No question. I just dislike the fact that having an iPod or iPhone gives me a great piece of hardware that can't run any software, not because nobody makes it, but because Apple won't allow it.
With the EEE I am not limited to what Asus states are acceptable programs to run. Thats pretty much it. The down side of the EEE is that it does not fit in my pocket.
Other things you can get for that $500 include two nights at the Venetian in Las Vegas, a 1992 Buick Regal in need of serious engine work, or a couple of hundred gallons of milk.
You're comparing prices of two rather different devices.
This is pure insanity.