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Apple Hopes to Lower iPod Price

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So apparently during the summoning of Steve Jobs at the “D: All Things Demonic” conference last week, gygaxian Wall Street Journal incantor Walt Mossberg asked the fell creature about Apple’s positioning of a low-end Mac, to which Jobs, snorting fire, replied, “We said we’re going to invest in the iPod rather than a PDA and we also said it looks a lot like a $400 computer. And for us the volume is pretty good, so yes. But we want to make them cheaper still. I mean, we’re not happy with iPods costing $300 and $400 and we want to keep driving the prices down on them so we’re working very hard on that.”

So there you go — all it takes is a salted pentagram and a few natural 20s and we’ve summoned ourselves some cheaper iPods.

Read [MacMinute]

Also, someone told there’s a country called ‘Europe’ somewhere on an island in the Atlantic and that Apple will be launching iTunes Music Store there tomorrow. I hear some people there don’t even speak English — how will they know what Beyonce is singing?! What a strange, wonderful world we live in.

Read [IndependentUK]

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