after looking at the new iPhone today it makes me want to new iPod so bad. Thanks to apple i cant get it here in Canada. Anyways do you think that the new ipod will have the OS like iPhone , basically be the iPhone just no phone cababilities but most likely with wireless.
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well lets hope the amazing products are more along the lines of widescreen ipod 6th gen and not itunes 8.
Itunes 8 would be FREE. A widescreen ipod would not. I for one welcome FREE new software from apple.
yeah a widescreen touch ipod with anywhere from 80-120gigs is definetly on the way. Jobs can't expect everyone to buy the phone and besides they don't ship till june.
But do you really think he would want a G6 iPod to ship with all these new features (minus the phone bit of course) before the iPhone? I don't think Steve would want the iPod to still the iPhones thunder so I think it might be awhile before we see a new iPod
yeah a widescreen touch ipod with anywhere from 80-120gigs is definetly on the way. Jobs can't expect everyone to buy the phone and besides they don't ship till june.
I agree. I want an iPhone and don't see myself buying a 6G iPod Video. I have lots of content, but I'm never away from my computer long enough to listen/watch everything I could pack into 8GB. I don't really think iPod will upset iPhone (or vice versa) by much, if any--there are plenty of reason to go one way over the other.
I'm betting on 3rd quarter for a new iPod.
I would love one now. but unfortunately we have to be patience.
It seems that we will see it in september/october to take advantage of the holiday season shopping.
after looking at the new iPhone today it makes me want to new iPod so bad. Thanks to apple i cant get it here in Canada. Anyways do you think that the new ipod will have the OS like iPhone , basically be the iPhone just no phone cababilities but most likely with wireless.
What Apple will offer in a new iPod is very much up for conjecture. But they will respond with an updated iPod and respond before the iPhone hits the market. They can not wait until June to update the iPod, the competition is not standing still. Hasn't Apple's share of the mp3 market dip?
I, for one, will probably want both things, although considering that I mainly use my iPod in my car, my current iPod suits my needs quite well as is.
I have lots of content, but I'm never away from my computer long enough to listen/watch everything I could pack into 8GB.
I just don't like to have to choose ahead of time what I might want to listen to between syncing my iPod one time and the next, nor having to decide what subset of my music to listen to at all. I prefer having everything from my library with me all of the time.
Of course, give me a 3G iPhone, decent 3G service coverage, a few gigabytes of bandwidth allowed per month without additional cell phone charges, and a VPN connection into my home network, and then I'll just stream whatever I want from my home system as needed -- I could then treat the iPhone's flash memory as nothing more than a cache for my home library.
Apple would be very foolish to keep this technology limited to the iPhone.
On the other hand, if they were planning on updating the iPod with this technology, why wouldn't they go ahead and announce it at Macworld? What's the point in waiting?
I imagine in about a month or so we will have another special event announcement with new iPods and Mac revisions. There is no way we are going to have to wait until WWDC in June for Leopard either.
But do you really think he would want a G6 iPod to ship with all these new features (minus the phone bit of course) before the iPhone? I don't think Steve would want the iPod to still the iPhones thunder so I think it might be awhile before we see a new iPod
They are two completely different products.
The iPhone is hardly a video ipod with only 8GB of storage. You might as well throw out the "video" part and just call it "short film" instead.
The iPod is definately no phone. This one is pretty self explanitory.
I dont see any cannibalism here for either product.
I believe there is only 8GB in the phone for the sole reason to keep the two products seperate. Put 40GB in the iPhone and now you are talking cannibalizing the ipods market.
Video buffs will not be satisfied with the size of the phone and will need both if looking for both a phone and a video player.
I don't think I will buy the iPhone for a few reason. One being Cingular service SUX around here in NY/NYC. Two, I have verizon and getting rid of them, would be stupid, and expensive. Three the phone is 600 bucks, I am not spending 600 dollars on a phone right now, plus the phone that I have right now is way more than enough. I would buy the new iPod tho being that I am on subways for an hour plus a day during the week, and even more on the weekends, so the new iPod would be amazing. Train rides out of the city and everything else would be nice too, being that it would be a real wide screen. I'm waiting for it to come out.
I am with you.
I love the iPhone but the price and Cingular is definately a No-No.
Sorry Apple.
Hopefully a bare bones iPhone is following. but even then we have to deal with Cingular. Very hard.
I want 120gig widescreen video ipod now!
Prefereably 40 Gb at the bottom..
They are two completely different products.
The iPhone is hardly a video ipod with only 8GB of storage. You might as well throw out the "video" part and just call it "short film" instead.
The iPod is definately no phone. This one is pretty self explanitory.
I dont see any cannibalism here for either product.
I believe there is only 8GB in the phone for the sole reason to keep the two products seperate. Put 40GB in the iPhone and now you are talking cannibalizing the ipods market.
Video buffs will not be satisfied with the size of the phone and will need both if looking for both a phone and a video player.
Agree with this - some of the best bits of the iPhone are not the video bits but the way the phone works, especially the voice mail etc...
different products. As I have said in other threads, I think the iPhone will potentially canabilise iPod nano sales more than a true 100GB video iPod....