Possible false advertising - ipod touch on apple website.

[tomk7]

Have a look here.
scroll down to the bottom and look at the ipod touch ad.
If the website has changed, look here.

It says: 'iPod touch - Millions of songs. Thousands of movies. Hundreds of games.'

The ipod touch cannot store 'millions of songs' even according to apple's 4mb per song. This would put the storage at 4TB for 1million songs.

I understand that they mean that there are millions of songs available on itunes, but that has very little to do with the ipod and does not accurately represent the capacity of the ipod.

Just wondering on your thoughts.

 

[*LTD*]

Have a look here.
scroll down to the bottom and look at the ipod touch ad.
If the website has changed, look here.

It says: 'iPod touch - Millions of songs. Thousands of movies. Hundreds of games.'

The ipod touch cannot store 'millions of songs' even according to apple's 4mb per song. This would put the storage at 4TB for 1million songs.

I understand that they mean that there are millions of songs available on itunes, but that has very little to do with the ipod and does not accurately represent the capacity of the ipod.

Just wondering on your thoughts.

It's just one of the main selling points for that device. It *is* the availability, and has everything to do with an iPod, since no other mp3 player on the planet syncs to iTunes (at least not the way the iPod does.) The iPod gives you access to all this.

 

[mysterytramp]

I understand that they mean that there are millions of songs available on itunes, but that has very little to do with the ipod and does not accurately represent the capacity of the ipod.

It's just one of the main selling points for that device. It *is* the availability, and has everything to do with an iPod, since no other mp3 player on the planet syncs to iTunes (at least not the way the iPod does.) The iPod gives you access to all this.

But that accessibility is true for shuffles, nanos and classics, too, but the Apple site never mentions "millions of songs" in the sales pitches to those iPods. In fact, the iPod Classic page leads off with "Your Top 40,000" -- a figure that represents the gizmo's capacity.

As clever as the millions, thousands, hundreds line is, I think tomk7 has a point.

mt

 

[diabolic]

But that accessibility is true for shuffles, nanos and classics, too, but the Apple site never mentions "millions of songs" in the sales pitches to those iPods.

But those don't have instant access to downloading the millions of songs directly to the device. The Touch does as long as your are connected to a network.

 

[tomk7]

But that accessibility is true for shuffles, nanos and classics, too, but the Apple site never mentions "millions of songs" in the sales pitches to those iPods. In fact, the iPod Classic page leads off with "Your Top 40,000" -- a figure that represents the gizmo's capacity.

As clever as the millions, thousands, hundreds line is, I think tomk7 has a point.

mt

Thanks, i guess you could also consider, that you dont even need an ipod to access these millions of songs. And also, that you need to pay for them (separately from ipod).

 

[diabolic]

Thanks, i guess you could also consider, that you dont even need an ipod to access these millions of songs. And also, that you need to pay for them (separately from ipod).

I don't think there's any danger of someone expecting millions of free songs to be included on their iPod Touch, regardless of their lack of tech knowledge.

 

[miles01110]

Given that the tag line is

Millions of songs. Thousands of movies. Hundreds of games.

...they're clearly implying:

Millions of songs are available for the iPod touch. Thousands of movies are available for the iPod touch. Hundreds of games are available for the iPod touch.

Perhaps they don't use this tag line for the other models of the iPod because the statement is weaker due to the lack of available games (thus not meeting the sacred "trinity" rule in advertising). It's certainly part truth and part marketing, but it's not false advertising.

 

[rorschach]

And the full page for the iPod touch says:

"iTunes is the best way to fill your iPod with the latest music, movies, TV shows, and more. It’s also the best way to browse and organize your ever-expanding digital media collection. And the iTunes Store is the best place to find millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, hundreds of games"