iPod Update One Week From Today
The 28th is the one year Anniversary for the iTMS, I think it will be cause for an updated iPod line. Especially with news topics like this, posted by our very own A.I. staff. Care to place a guess?
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I've been waiting for a new 4th gen iPod since my ex stole my old 3rd Gen ipod
Originally posted by TrunksGoku
Oh please dear God I HOPE so.
I've been waiting for a new 4th gen iPod since my ex stole my old 3rd Gen ipod
Hopefully april 28 is the day tho, i'm gonna buy one as soon as possible.
The whole thing must be annoying apple loads - I keep winning coke music, but I can't access their music website, purely because I have a mac. What a joke.
Surely the iPod would stay similar - perhaps slightly lighter, but just with larger HDD, better screen, slightly extended battery life if poss and the keys on the scroll wheel like the Mini? Too much?
I could see apple releasing a topend PowerPod type with colour screen, which automatically connects to iPhoto and downloads your pics so you can show them on the move. Then the Belkin accessory would allow you upload them directly and view them - pretty cool. Afterall, Apple did say they were working together with Belkin for some cool accessories. It would have to be a simple system though.
Also they could put bluetooth into the iPod? That would be hype. Wireless and then simple software would allow you to use the iPod to control iTunes/ your mac from afar and wireless headphones that cut out when your mobile phone rings....... food for thought
Originally posted by quagmire
I have been waiting for 4thy since I saw mini. I hope the battery will last longer. Maybe 10 hrs. The color screen is a nice concept but it will suck away battery life. I wonder how Hp will react to the 4th gen ipod. I wonder if HP is going to do the same thing that microsoft did with apples deal with the windows-mac fight back in the 1980's.
WTF are you talking about, Apple and HP are probably working very closely on their deal. I am pretty positive, though it is a guess, that HP knows what they will be "competing with" when they have their version of the iPod.
Apple and HP wont be fighting each other, its a harmonious situation and a win-win for both firms.
Originally posted by Messiahtosh
WTF are you talking about, Apple and HP are probably working very closely on their deal. I am pretty positive, though it is a guess, that HP knows what they will be "competing with" when they have their version of the iPod.
Apple and HP wont be fighting each other, its a harmonious situation and a win-win for both firms.
Yup definately a win-win for both companies. Hp gets a mp3 player with huge recognition around the world without having to put a cent into development and Apple gets to expand its user base with every new Hp computer sold. Sounds pretty good to me.
As for the 4th gen iPod, a colour screen would be great but just dont make it at the expense of battery life. Battery life IMO is the most important thing that needs to be updated in the next gen iPod.
Oh ya, and I am buying a 4th gen the moment it comes out even if it means driving 10 hrs to get one.
Whatever the upgrade plan is, I hope Apple goes back to button controls around the scroll wheel like the first and second generation models and the Mini. I never have cared for the third generation controls.
Originally posted by iDave
I kinda doubt there will be a new iPod for awhile yet, unless it's the same that HP will be selling and that's been the plan all along. HP wouldn't want to be forced to sell an inferior third generation product after Apple moves to fourth generation and HP wouldn't want to update too soon after they first start selling hPods. If HP is to begin selling (fourth generation) iPods soon after they are updated then maybe we will see a new model soon.
Whatever the upgrade plan is, I hope Apple goes back to button controls around the scroll wheel like the first and second generation models and the Mini. I never have cared for the third generation controls.
The 3rd gen isn't inferior... i think it's good for apple to differentiate itself from HP with a new model.
Originally posted by TrunksGoku
The 3rd gen isn't inferior... i think it's good for apple to differentiate itself from HP with a new model.
Props.
Originally posted by Kubdibore
All about iTMS reaching the rest of the world - its beginning to cheese me off that you can't get it in Europe or elsewhere.
Europe has been clamoring for this; if anything, I think Apple would open iTMS-Euro rather than a 4th gen iPod.
Originally posted by TrunksGoku
The 3rd gen isn't inferior... i think it's good for apple to differentiate itself from HP with a new model.
Um how do you know 3rd gen isn't inferior to 4th gen? You might think it's cool for Apple to differentiate, but HP wouldn't. HP is already being left off the Mini bandwagon. I seriously doubt that HP would have agreed to anything which says they have to sell old models while Apple goes about selling newer better.
Originally posted by iDave
Um how do you know 3rd gen isn't inferior to 4th gen? You might think it's cool for Apple to differentiate, but HP wouldn't. HP is already being left off the Mini bandwagon. I seriously doubt that HP would have agreed to anything which says they have to sell old models while Apple goes about selling newer better.
HP has agreed to selling the3rd gen ipod
it means nothing to apple if they release a new 4th gen ipod
who cares...HP has the 3rd gen..let apple have the 4th gen
thats how business is...pc software has always been shafting the mac platform...why cant apple do the god damn same?@!!!!!
if you had 2 companies selling the same crap it doesnt make sense ...apple HAS to sell something different...it's not apple begging at HP's feet...it's the other way around...apple can do as it pleases
Originally posted by iDave
Um how do you know 3rd gen isn't inferior to 4th gen? You might think it's cool for Apple to differentiate, but HP wouldn't. HP is already being left off the Mini bandwagon. I seriously doubt that HP would have agreed to anything which says they have to sell old models while Apple goes about selling newer better.
Actually, casting my mind back to the announcements, interviews etc., that's pretty much what HP has signed up for.
You have to remember that HP will be moving iPod and their iTunes-enhanced Pavilions in markets where Apple barely has a presence, let alone a mature iPod/iTunes marketing message.
These markets will be typified by lower levels of disposable income and - without meaning to patronise - lower levels of expectation. Selling 3G iPods where the development and engineering expenses have already been amortised in 'developed' markets will result in HP being able to sell 3G iPods at lower prices, which is good for the consumer, good for HP and good for Apple.
Originally posted by iDave
I stand corrected. New iPods next week then.
really? i'm so excited!!!!!!!!! i have a 3G but i could always go for a 4G