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New iPods on the Horizon
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."
Actually, I've heard there's plan for an iPod with integrted e-mail functions...but, it's just a rumor, I'm sure *shifty eyes*
I want a near indestructible one. Make it bulkier if you have to, just don't let it break.
I know this may look like a really dumb comment in about 4 hrs but I don't see video being THAT useful. You can store a ton of low-res video on the ipod if you just want to watch it there, but the real advantage would be to take it with you to friends' houses for viewing on their TVs. Well, in that case, you want hi-res video, video that will take up quite a bit of room. Hmmm.... Wonder how those geniuses will solve THAT little problem...
Cemil.
It would have to be. Initially content will be Video Podcasts (like NerdTV), music videos, and hopefully TV shows. Also Apple needs to release software that will transcode non-encrypted DVDs or VIDEO_TS forlders, and let "third parties" do the rest.
We will know more later today.
Do we really need 5 posts regarding this subject? The question will be answered today. This article's basically saying "Apple will release...something... soon. Mark our words."
P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
It sounds like Apple's simply trying to cash-in quickly before their 'bubble' bursts. Don't get me wrong, the iPod is a great little device, but at some point the buzz + demand / supply will stabilize and the rest of the non-innovative companies will play copy & catch-up.
Shuffle (512MB or 1024MB)
Nano (2GB or 4GB)
Normal (20GB or 60GB)
3 types, 2 size choices for each, with a nice $50 price difference for each model.
I think Apple are really good when it comes to coming up with a product lineup. It's other suppliers that are too confusing.
-- The doctor said I wouldn't get so many nose bleeds if I just kept my finger out of there!
Will the influx of new Ipods bring the price of the current models to levels where I may decide to buy one? The main thing that has kept me from getting an Ipod is the battery. I spend alot of time working outdoors and a replaceable battery is something that works very well for me. If the battery dies I just put in a new AA (iriver 300 series). Even if it a proprietary battery if it replaceable I want the ability to poop in a fully charged battery. If I wasn't so flighty I could be sure to charge the device every night but that, unfortunately is not the case for me.
iPod Suppo.
There's no such thing as too many choices. Perhaps grannies and parents will get confused, but that's why we have salesmen to hear them out, listen to their needs, then help them select the most expensive model in stock.
You like your new Mac more than you like me, don't you, Dave? Dave? I asked...She said Yes.
If you want to catch the latest products about to be released today, check out the rumor sites at 10am PDT, I'm sure one of them will be following it. They currently think the Video iPod will debut today.
thinksecret
appleinsider
Or just checkout apple's website later today!
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
Have you seen creative's lineup?
Just another example of "one more thing" marketing as discussed, say, here: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,69172,00 .html?tw=rss.TOP.
I wonder -- is preaching to the converted really sustainable though?
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Science -- Sealed, Delivered.
Maybe not indestructible, but they're already pretty damn tough http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3
Here's a link to live coverage of the event: http://live.macobserver.com/article/2005/10/specia levent_keynote.shtml
As for whether the move to Intel was a bad idea or not, Apple users have been happy with PowerPC chips for a long time, but dissatisfied with IBM/Moto's ability to get them delivered in a timely fashion. We'll see if Intel can deliver on its promises.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
I tend to agree.
3 8-D9FB-1055-973683414B7F0000 would not, however.
I'm sure the author of this piece http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0006AD
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Science -- Sealed, Delivered.
I find it interesting that you said this right after Apple announced that sales of Mac-hardware increased by about 50% when compared to last year. If that means that Mac is "dying", I would LOVE to see what it would be like when it's thriving!
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Do the current models still insert a couple of seconds of silence between every track?
I'd love one, but if they still have this problem, then no way. Nobody would buy a CD player that had the same issue.
Do I want to watch a 2 hour movie on an iPod? No.
Do I want to watch a 10 minute news bulletin podcasted to my iPod? Yes.
Do I want to watch a 22 minute episode of the Simpsons on my iPod? Yes.
Don't think films, think TV.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
I hope if I ever get a "death sentence", it only lasts for a year and I get 30 billion dollars in the bank. That's the kind of death I could get into.
The 1990's called -- they want "Apple is Dying" back.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
You all know what Apple is missing in its line up. A Apple DVR. There is Tivo, MythTV, and Microsoft Multimedia Center. Apple needs to enter the arena.
They have the QuickTime technology.
They have the UI skills to make a better DVR.
They have the Hardware experience.
Wait and see.
Think about it. Why would you buy a iPod Video? Because, you have episodes of Star Track Enterprise, and Lost on your Apple DVR. You want to take them on the road. You need a Apple iPod Video that allows you to quickly download those programs over firewire right to a little hand held video player.
By Apple introducing a DVR they create instant content for the iPod Video. They are struggling to get the Movie Studios on board. So they need another way to create content for the iPod Video.
With out the Apple DVR where is the added value of a iPod Video?
Having had my first 40 gig iPod die under warranty, only to have its replacement have a bad dock connector they wouldn't warranty... and having had my 18 month old G4 iBook die a couple days ago with a faulty logic board... Apple needs to seriously get their act in gear where product reliability is concerned. I've had a 25% success rate of their products lasting longer than 18 months.
;-)
I'm fed up enough with the quality problems that I'm actually debating buying a PC laptop to replace the iBook. And that really makes me ill to think about. I hope I can figure out how to get OSX/86 on it
This model is one of those Steve Jobs things. Most any other company would have kept the Mini in its lineup when the nano came out, but Jobs believes religiously in giving the consumer a pretty clear set of choices that way.
(Sometimes you can see new product lines coming just by looking for the holes in existing ones. We have the middle and high-end iPods, but they're priced high; cue the Shuffle.)
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Enough with the battery FUD.
I just replaced my iPod battery last month. It was $20, including shipping, and came with a funky little plastic tool for opening up the iPod case. Changing it was easier than a memory upgrade on most laptops.
The hardest part of the entire operation was lining up the pins to plug the hard drive back into the motherboard. That took me all of about thirty seconds.
If you can't change the battery on an iPod while following the instructions that come with almost every replacement battery, you are a goddamn idiot.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
How about announcing an iTunes client for Linux? Or at the very least, allowing third parties to release iTunes Linux clients and not constantly thwarting their attempts to bring new customers to the platform? I don't run anything but Linux, at work and at home. I haven't bought an iPod yet because I cannot get reliable iTMS services.
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This company is completely tearing up the rest of the DAP industry, but we all know this already. I think Apple is going to keep on going and end up taking over the whole electronics market. Apple products have style, power and useability. We've already seen Apple grow from just computing to DAPs to DAPs that have can display photos. Now we have one of these buggers that is only a tiny bit larger than a stick of gum. How long until they make this into a phone, like somebody else mentioned?
They seem to love touch-control tech, and so do consumers. Why not do away with the wheel and put a touch LCD in its place? This LCD displays a wheel that functions the same as the physical wheel, but also slides away when you want to input names and numbers into your address book. You can plug your headset in and make VoIP calls in WiFi hotspots, or record audio directly onto your iPod. The touch LCD navigation makes it easy to create playlists and name them.
Resistance is futile.
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Just so someone actually comes out and says what I imagine many have noticed: this week's free track of the week has yet to be released at the iTunes store. If I was releasing an ipod video, I would make sure the free track was a music video that week so there is instant content to promote.
My iPod just died for good last night (my own fault, really... shouldn't bang around a device like that as much as I did), and now my wife just feels really sorry for me. If they release a new one today, I can capitalize on her sympathy and talk her into letting me get one!
Apple, please take note! If you don't release one today, my accountant... er... wife will never let me purchase one of your shiny white products! Her sympathy won't last forever, act today!
I make sure and give written descriptions and model numbers so they can get it right. I give lots of choices, but, I do help them out so as to make sure they get me what I really want...
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Optical digital output actually built into the iPod strikes me as an enormous waste of space, but if they could supplement the analogue line-out on the back of the Dock with an optical one it would be very nice indeed. If I need an optical output, it's to feed a hi-fi that's capable of exploiting the difference in sound quality between the two, which probably means it's both big and stationary enough to make the Dock the ideal place.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Think Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire
Think Super-Bowl wardrobe malfunction
Think just about any online video that you'd email your friends, but since video is sometimes slow to download, think about just handing them your iPod for a second.
(though, as the old adage goes... think porn)
There is more than simple raw technical comparison. The iPod wins out hands down against any other player in terms of form factor and UI. Plus, the consistency of quality of their products keep people coming back. Creative can't capitalize on a name the way iPod can because iirc Creative had a string of mediocre mp3 players before the iRiver.
"If you're talking about a video iPod, what would drive the demand? Music videos? You have a whole generation of people already conditioned to getting those for free," said GartnerG2 research analyst Mike McGuire. Uh, hello? Apple makes money on the iPods! If there a big suppy of free music videos for people to watch online (and there is) so much the better! I could be a research analyst, if that's the kind of insight they bring to the table.
It certainly seems to be a "Jobs thing". From what I remember, you could just watch it happen when he returned to Apple. It's not just an issue of limiting options or anything, it's offering what is basically a standardized lineup with standard naming conventions, and then a little variation in configuration. It's the whole thing. It's called "marketing", and it's one of Jobs' big talents.
You get the iStuff, which is all white plastic consumer goods, and then the PowerStuff, which is all aluminum power-user/business goods. It gets to be pretty clear to the consumer what he's getting himself into. You know exactly which models are "better". They're mostly the same, except the more expensive one is faster, has a couple extra features, etc.
I'm still waiting for a "PowerPod".
And then Apple plays this whole "$50 more" game. More marketing. It's smart. People can say, "You can buy an iPod for only $99!" And that draws people in. They think, well, $100 isn't bad. But then, for $50 more, you can get twice as much memory. But for just $50 more than that, you can get a color screen AND twice as much memory. For just $50 more, you can get a whole lot more memory, 5 times as much. Next thing you know, you're thinking about spending $500 for something where you justified the purchase because it was cheap at $100.
And that's what the "$50 more" game is all about. Make your entry level product cheap enough that people feel like it's silly to think it's "too much money", and then add genuinely useful features at regular and small price increments. Consumers will naturally rise to the highest level of money they're willing to spend.
The iPod has been around for four years as of next week.
The reason you get modded "flame" or "troll" when suggesting that iPods are coasting on a "hype bubble" or some such is because that is a flaming troll. We're well past the point of hype.
Someone above laughably said: "When the iPods first came out they were cool, now they're just a fad." Zuh? No, they were a fad when they came out. That's what a fad is. It's long past a fad at this point. Now it's just plain old "cool" reaching the point of "standard equipment" for a certain (affluent) section of the population.
Seriously. Four years of steadily increasing sales != fad or hype. Exactly, precisely, inimitably the opposite.
I make sure and give written descriptions and model numbers so they can get it right.
I do this as well. Then a salesman helps them select the most expensive model in stock instead.
I'm an expert in the stuff. The salesman makes them forget that I'm the expert, because that's what he's expert at.
He's also away from home.
KFG
I am going to build my own iPod, with hookers and black jack .. in fact forget about the black jack
Here's the info so far: - iMac: faster, larger disk, built in iSight. Includes FrontRow (app) /. yet at macrumors.com
- iPod: 30GB/60GB with Video - realtime decoding of MPEG4 and H.264. 260,000 colors. Video out.
- FrontRow and PhotoBooth Apps.
- 30GB iPod: $299 - 31% thinner than current 20GB; - 60GB iPod: $399.
- New iPods avail next week. Comes with case
- iMac: $1299 for 17" model with 1.5GHz, $1799 for 20" model with 2.1GHz
- iTunes 6 to be released
- Front Row - comes with new iMacs. Lets you enjoy video/music/pictures from sofa. Everything
still displayed on iMac screen. iPod-like remote. 6 button remote.
- Photobooth - appears to be slide show application.
- Music Videos. 2000 available to buy. $1.99 each.
- Can "gift" music to other people. Peer reviews and recommendation service.
They keep updating and aren't
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