Friday, November 04, 2005
MP3 player prices tumble ::
Dave Warnock (42) alerted me falling prices for MP3 players through his post on church use of digital audio. The lowest price MP3 players in NZ is now under $50 (facts correct at 7am 4th Nov local time or see this page for latest info) though I notice that prices are higher in the UK!
This means that this techno-gadget which has already a very high market penetration among the young can become ubiquitous. It is now possible for a church to buy a few and give them - preloaded with 20 hours of Bible readings (and we already have the first hour of Mark's gospel ready at PodBible.com and will soon have much more...) - to elderly members who can no longer read for themselves.
Well apart from the fiddly controls and small size of every MP3 player I've seen... so which manufacturer will be first to come out with a "SeniorPod" a larger player with bigger buttons and clearer screen?
¶ 7:04 AM
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Dave Warnock (42) alerted me falling prices for MP3 players through his post on church use of digital audio. The lowest price MP3 players in NZ is now under $50 (facts correct at 7am 4th Nov local time or see this page for latest info) though I notice that prices are higher in the UK!
This means that this techno-gadget which has already a very high market penetration among the young can become ubiquitous. It is now possible for a church to buy a few and give them - preloaded with 20 hours of Bible readings (and we already have the first hour of Mark's gospel ready at PodBible.com and will soon have much more...) - to elderly members who can no longer read for themselves.
Well apart from the fiddly controls and small size of every MP3 player I've seen... so which manufacturer will be first to come out with a "SeniorPod" a larger player with bigger buttons and clearer screen?
¶ 7:04 AM
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AKMA posted on something similar a month or two back in the wake of the iPod Nano launch. At some point the player becomes a minimal expense (as opposed to the content). So you might buy a cheap player and fill it with content as a gift for someone - or have various iPods (iPodii?) each with different genres on them.
See: http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/2005/09/daily_random.html
