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'True' Video iPod Coming Soon
Moby Cock writes "Think Secret is reporting that the true video iPod is slated for announcement soon. It will have a 3.5 inch display and will eschew the mechanical click wheel in favour of a touch screen version. The 5th generation iPod released prior to the holiday season last year is described as a souped up 4G iPod with video capabilities. This new iPod will be the 'true' video iPod. It looks like there is not going to be wireless support. The article hints that the release date could be April 1 which is the 30th anniversary of Apple."
Not to say it isn't true, but beware of Thinksecret's predictions. They've had a long string of incorrect predictions lately. Either they have bad sources, or their sources are too good--purposely placed by Apple to misdirect the rumor sites.
In all honesty, it's kind of a bummer that these sites are so obsessed with breaking Apple secrets all the time. Imagine how cool it would have been if nobody knew this was coming out, and bam, suddenly it's announced...or if nobody knew Intel machines were going to be at MacWorld (we knew months ahead of time thanks to "sources"). It really ruins the amazing announcement to have all these months of speculative hype leading up to it.
"Sufferin' succotash."
And given ThinkSecret's track record over the past 6 months, you should take all this "News" with a truckload of salt.
Now, something where the whole face of an iPod sized box was a 16:9 HDTV display would be neat.
Interestingly, flash memory SanDisk is now #2 in MP3 players. There's an advantage in being the biggest maker of flash memory in this business.
1) Apple really was incorporated on April 1st (people don't seem to know that) and it will be the actual 30th birthday to the day.... though Steve Jobs was not at Apple for the 20th anniversary, there was a special Mac released.
2) the current iPod is referred to as "iPod with video" and not "video iPod" on Apple.com. that specific wording is why people think Apple is reserving "video iPod" for something new. i guess technically the iPod with Video is considered a modified version of the latest iPod, and not a flat out video playback device. it also may explain those patents that surfaced recently about a touchscreen-like thing that made the rumor site go bananas thinking an Apple tablet was coming. (here is one example). add the reoccurring "Apple to buy Palm" rumor and you could write a book full of speculation wrapping up all these rumors into one crazy device if you want.
anyway, that's the background on those two bits.....
While this isn't as good as not skipping between tracks, if there are a pair of tracks that you'll only want to listen to together (e.g. Parabol/Parabola off Lateralus), you should import them into iTunes/whatever as one track (use Join CD Tracks in the advanced menu). Then you're not going to get a gap between them, and you're not going to get Parabol by itself on random play, building up to nothing.
II prefer to know a companies plans when I am buying from them. Prevents me from getting i* v1.0 when i* v.2.0 will be released a month later (happened to me w/ the iPod Photo/iPod Video).
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
Either they have bad sources, or their sources are too good--purposely placed by Apple to misdirect the rumor sites.
You'll note that they have been consistently wrong about everything that wasn't glaringly obvious since they were sued by Apple in effort to ferret out the internal leaker. In short, they lost the one actual source they ever had.
They (rumor sites in general) make shit up, plain and simple.
Usually, when rumors don't pan out they say things like "it was delayed at the last minute", or "it was suddenly cancelled". No matter how many times they get it wrong, they claim "reliable sources". No matter how many things actually happen that they didn't know about, they always report them as if they were predictions come true. That they've managed to get people to believe that Apple deliberately sends them misinformation is all part of the calculated chicanery that keeps such sites popular and profitable.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.