[grattperret]

It's been known since the iPhone launch that the margins were close to 55%, meaning apple could literally half the price and still make money. It's also pretty obvious that effectively opening your potential audience to hundreds of millions, rather than a few rich/stupid American Posers, would mean a huge benefit from scale.

I think this is a rare slip by Apple, and I suspect the pressure came from AT&T, not internally at Apple. Considering the iPhone was the number one PDA/SmartPhone seller in July, Apple should not have been panicking.

I like the iPOD touch though... think I might get the 16GB version.

Wow thats kind of low for someone of your sophistication.