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New iPods on the Horizon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-waiting-for-video dept.

RemovableBait writes "Apple Computer plans to introduce more iPods before the end of the year", a company executive said Tuesday. From the article: Executive Vice President Tim Cook didn't say whether the new iPods will come at a press event Apple has scheduled for Wednesday morning. But during a conference call with analysts, he suggested that the iPod Nano won't be the last new iPod of the year."

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  1. Oh gosh! Jeez! Holy cow! OMG! Ack! by luna69 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blah, blah, blah.

    --
    No gods, no demons, and no masters. Secular Humanism!
  2. One product shop by gilesjuk · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems Apple has become a bit of a one product shop. While they do make computers they are reliant on the huge margins of the iPod to keep them afloat. A rather bad position to be in. Once media playing phones mature there won't be much need for carring two devices around.

    The success of the Intel based Macs is not guaranteed, after all Intel are the cheap badly designed warm running processors, not the nice optimal designed processors that AMD and Motorola/IBM produce.

  3. iPods keep gettin worse! by SenorCitizen · · Score: 1, Troll
    They are definitely going for the worse. There's still no gapless playback for any format, let alone mp3, but the newest generation can't even play Lame encoded VBR mp3's correctly! Apparently it's due to the aggressive power saving feature that can't keep up with the wild fluctuations in bitrate, causing stutters on some material.

    I would strongly advise against buying an iPod now, but instead to wait and see if this cardinal bug will be fixed or not.

  4. MOD PARENT TROLL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    PARENT IS A TROLL. Everyone has seen how nanos scratches badly, and this one is supposed to be unscratched? Dont think so tim.

  5. Re:How 'bout both? by Basehart · · Score: 0, Troll

    Whoever marked this post as Troll is just jealous.

    I must have an indestructable one too - no scratches that are visible without close inspection - so yah boo sucks to you MWASN (Moderator with a scratchy Nano.).

  6. Re:Ogg Support? by kfg · · Score: 0, Troll

    These things are just not important to the greater universe.

    I do not buy personal mp3 players to be used by the greater universe. I buy them for my personal use.

    No Vorbis support? No sale. I am the only arbiter of what is a huge issue in my purchases.

    Neither I nor the OP give a damn about is and is not a huge issue to Apple or the greater universe. That's somebody else's problem.

    KFG