This is what you used to get in your iPod box: A dock, a firewire cable, a remote, a holster case, a cloth bag, crappy headphones and a plug-in adaptor.
By the time the forth-generation came out, we lost the dock and the case...
This is what you get now.
I remember when Apple stopped including a case. Their excuse was that many iPod owners went out and bought their own case anyway. Feeble excuse.
Each extra bit you need roughly costs about £20. So for an adaptor, dock and case that's an extra £60 on top of what you've just spent on an iPod. OK, you could probably do without a Dock and always charge your iPod through your Mac but that's not the point. I just had to buy a USB adaptor because my wife needed to charge up her Shuffle. I've got an old Firewire adaptor kicking about that can charge up any other iPod but not a shuffle. Eh, back in the day...
I've only brought this up because I'm planning on upgrading to a touch next month and these days you don't even get one of those faux-suede slipcases. I can get a 16GB one from Amazon for £234 but I still need to get a case. I'd like an iPod sock for it but they don't quite fit. So if anyone out there can knit, please send me an email.
Steve Jobs once said that the iPod had created it's own little industry. No Steve, you did. You tight-fisted... so and so.
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