@miikerman wrote:
Actually, I’m very happy with the gift/player, and look forward to using it for the apps side and having music on it. But it was interesting to me that I kept on thinking when I got it, but where’s the slot? An easy way to expand the memory by a tidy 16GB at limited expense ($20-$25 or less, at this point)–an extra 16GB always is nice to have.
And yep, part of the marketing strategy by Apple, I believe–why allow users to buy their own memory and expand their players when you can get them to buy a new player instead? Part of the Apple strategy of a new player a year (as Steve stated publicly, once–consumerism run rampant)–I remember reading years ago of features that the company already had developed but only wanted to trickle on out, to spur periodic upgrading by comsumers.
A perfect opening for SanDisk, and making me more thankful for the Sansa slot!
Congrats on getting an ipod touch. It’s certainly loaded with features and I agree that having a micro card slot could only improve it even more.
IMO, in addition to what you mentioned in your post, Apple wouldn’t add in a card slot because they want more consumers to pay for the larger capacity models. If I were looking to purchase an ipod touch, and it had a micro card slot, I would only buy the 8 gb model since I have a 32gb card, instead of going for the 32gb or even the 64gb one, which would result in a loss of profit for Apple.