iPod Vending Machines Land at Airports, Hotels

iPod Vending Machines Land at Airports, Hotels

This brings to mind cool scenarios of people casually buying sophisticated devices from wall-mounted vending machines, but is the business model the right one? When you walk up to a vending machine you expect to pay a buck or two, or perhaps ten bucks for stamps or something, but a sawbuck for a gadget might be too much for the traveling public (especially since they're already traveling and getting ripped off by last-minute business tickets). Also, maybe most people don't do this, but I consider my electronics purchases carefully before I pull the trigger, and would probably never make one impulsively in an airport. Disposable digital cameras, maybe, but iPods? Not unless they cost $15 and are re-usable. This feels to me like an idea that's ahead of its time, or at least ahead of cheap price-points for noice-canceling headphones and iPods.