Apple's iPod Mini Goes International July 24th

Still amid very constained availability in the U.S., Apple announced today that iPod Mini sales outside of the U.S. will begin on July 24th. The iPod Mini has been a huge hit since they were released despite the claims of many media pundits that they were too expensive at $249. The demand has so outstripped the supply that sales have been limited to the U.S. market. That restriction will lift in a couple of weeks which we hope means that the iPod Mini's supply will improve dramatically. Today the online Apple Store says that there's still a 4-week wait to shipping.

While we got one the day they first came out and another a couple of weeks later as the last of the first 100,000 were sold, they have been scarce as hen's teeth since. Their eBay prices have greatly exceeding the $249 Apple charges when you can find one. We got lucky a couple of weeks ago when looking in the Fashion Valley Apple Store for a gift for our graduating niece. We spied a young lady waiting in line to return the rarest iPod Mini, a pink one, and she took our offer of cash for it before she reached the register. Fortunately, we were traveling the next day and had just been to the bank. We must be living right for that series of events to have lined up in our favor.

Here is Apple's press release.