I wanted to buy a Nano armband (list $29) so I could wear it while working out and/or clip it to my belt, but no joy. Best Buy's stock of Nano-frills had been stripped bare of Nano-wear, so I was left to feed my sudden urge to catch up with the 21st Century of Music with a DLO Transpod Dock, a combination of charging cradle and FM transmitter for the car ($99). You simple take this gizmo, plug it into the car's power outlet (i.e. fag lighter) and then drop the Nano into it, then spend about five minutes futzing with radio station tuning to find an open channel so it can broadcast into the car's radio.
Let's stop and do the maths. One Nano ($199) + USB charger ($29) + Nano armband ($29) + Transpod ($99) = $356. That's about half way to the price of a laptop or a mid-range desktop box! And it's all tiny little plastic bits and pieces clipping away at the wallet in bits and pieces under $100 after you get the initial iPod, be it the Nano all the way up through the 60GB Video iPod. Put another way, I'm going to spend nearly as much money on extras as was spent for the initial device.
Yup, the real dollars are in selling the accessories!
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