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Apple May Introduce New iPod on Wednesday
UnHolier than ever writes "Apple may be planning to announce a 'revamp' of the iPod on Wednesday. Reporters from across Europe have been asked to view a broadcast presentation by Steve Jobs at the BBC headquarters. Theorized features for this new iPod include a full or wide-screen with touch controls, ala the ever-popular iPhone. '[An analyst with Goldman Sachs] believes that a new line of iPods will boost demand for the gadget from Goldman's present forecast of about 19.8 million units for Apple's key first quarter - the reporting period that covers Christmas. However, that still suggests that demand for iPods will be flat, at best, compared with the same period last year, when Apple sold about 21 million devices.'"
Reading your posts is practically orgasmic for me. So much work, so barely comprehensible, and really, your points would almost be reasonable if not for the veneer of insanity you seem to try so hard to add.
You, sir, rock.
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With 6 billion or so people on the planet, sooner or later the market will reach saturation, and ipod sale are going to become flat. I'm not really sure why flattening of iPod sales is big news.
That said, I have a 3rd gen iPod, and it's getting close to the time to replace it, I have hopes for a widescreen color iPod in the 100 gb range, So if it's avaiable soon, I may very well bee the 19 million and first sale this year.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
I just bought a 8 GB Nano today. And in less than a week, it's going to be vintage. Yes!
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Sounds to me like everyones business model except AT&T's wins here. I can live with that....
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Engadget has a helpful rumor roundup - just to keep the /. discussion lively with speculation. Aside from the next-gen touchscreen iPod, there's the Beatles' catalogue on iTMS, direct-to-iPhone (iPod) music store downloads, and increased capacity in the Nano. "Analysis" (i.e., educated speculation and wishful thinking) available from CNet, ArsTechnica, and AppleInsider (1, 2, 3).
Ha! Lets not err on the side of caution here, I thought it was a dead cert. Especially since those new iPod photos appeared which Apple promptly issued a take-down for.
Why hasnt apple put AM/FM/XM/whatever radio capabilities in the iPods.
I still listen to radio ocasionally when I want to listen to something different.
So, we know Apple are calling in journalists from all over Europe, we know that in the iPhone launch presentation Steve Jobs said Europe would get the iPhone in Q3 2007, and we know there are only another 27 days of Q3 2007 left. So why are people jumping to the conclusion that this is a iPod launch?
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There is a rumour that instead of wi-fi, the new iPod will use this technology:
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http://lunchat.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/klee
thus it may not have any skype/wireless capabilities.
Dude, I know - that was just an experiment. You know, for nerds.
I own two other real Macs already - G4 eMac and a Powermac G4 dual 1GHz with 23" Cinema display. I'm just in the process of working out which to retire/sell and what to replace with - once Leopard is out, that is.
Hackintosh is a cool experiment but the scene seems to consist of a handful of very talented hackers, some very shady types, and a lot of what we in the 80's would have called Lamers.
Whoah there, this is now both off-topic and flamebait. LOL.
G4 Hackintosh
That's complete bullshit. I regularly copy gigs upon gigs of data on and off my 80 gig ipod and I've /never/ had it corrupt anything. Ever. In fact, I just md5summed a DVD ISO that I shoved on there a few months ago and it's exactly the same as the one on my drive. With a "1 in 100" miss rate, there's no way that'd be possible.
s.clementmonkey@sympatico.ca, remove the 'monkey'.
Is this some kind of Zen riddle? If no one reads the article, does it matter that the article has no substance?
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The contracts Apple signed in Europe give Apple 10% of the revenue the wireless provider gets from activating the phone.
If you unlock your iPhone and don't use it on the contracted provider, then Apple loses that money.
So yeah, the unlocking has likely hurt Apple's business model.
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perhaps.
what i do know is that 2 of our suppliers who normally don't sell apple stock were offering cheap ipods for the past 2-3 months here in ireland. they really seem to have been off loading ipod video and ipod nano stock. i also heard from friends who had companies they dealt with offering similar deals. now it might just be the lower end but it was still a significant departure for these companies to suddenly offer stock from a company they normally had no dealings with.
prices offered to us
* ipod nano 4gb 165
* ipod 30gb black 210
Assuming you think news should only be about provable facts....well, it is certainly a fact that some people think that Apple may introduce a new iPod on wednesday. Whether that is is important or not* is a matter of debate, but it is certainly a real fact, and therefore news.
*it does have very tangible effects, in the form of moving markets.
Wireless. More space than a Nomad. Still lame.
...about the demand for iPods? I have a feeling that they have always underestimated the demand.
Ah, numbers from the PDOOMA methodology.
What? You've not heard of PDOOMA? It's sweeping the Internet, the TV and the newspapers of the world! It's the latest in business analysis and information.
PDOOMA = Pulled Directly Out Of My Arse.
Just like the 1/100 memory miss rate. Nice work. You may have a career in punditry waiting for you somewhere.