Next Generation iPod 'Soon'?

[notjustjay]

I hate voice commands. You cann't speak normal- you have to articulate your words more than normal and if you talk fast like I do, you have to slow it down. No thanks I say.

Not necessarily. I remember working a few years back at a telecom company whose flagship product contained a voice recognition auto-attendant. One feature was you could log into your voice mail by speaking. It was actually kind of ironic because the instructions said to enunciate your phone number clearly and slowly, using about one number per second ("six... one.. three..") But whenever I tried to do this it would interrupt me and say "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please, try again." It took me a while to realize that I was actually supposed to rattle off my phone number at a conversational pace. THAT it could understand.

We also had voice dialing. Which worked great... sometimes. I can just imagine that technology applied to a voice controlled iPod:

"iPod, next song please."
"I heard, Black Eyed Peas, is that correct?"
"No!"
"Please restate your command."
"Volume down."
"I heard, System of a Down, is that correct?"
"Aaargh!"
"Please say 'yes', or 'no'...."

Hey, maybe this is what the Newton engineers have been re-assigned to?

 

[RodThePlod]

Hey, maybe this is what the Newton engineers have been re-assigned to?

Oy!!!! Leave those Newton engineers alone!

I've said it before and I'll say it again - my MP2K is still going strong now!! and it's almost ten years old

Man - those Newton folk were waaaaaay ahead of their time...

RodC
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[slffl]

Man this 'true' video ipod is the stupidest thing I've heard. Just because the screen isn't 4" doesn't make it a fake video ipod. And yes I know it's not just macrumors that use this term.

 

[aricher]

Eugh! I like to talk to people (and animals and plants, if I'm in the mood), not electronic gadgets!

What a waste of time 'voice command' is. I have it on my phone and NEVER use it. Ever.

I use the voice command feature on my cell every day while I'm driving. Much better than having to take my eyes off the road to scroll through numbers that I don't have set as speed dials. Personally I would love having a voice option on the iPod - much safer than scrolling through tracks while driving.

 

[Chundles]

Not necessarily. I remember working a few years back at a telecom company whose flagship product contained a voice recognition auto-attendant. One feature was you could log into your voice mail by speaking. It was actually kind of ironic because the instructions said to enunciate your phone number clearly and slowly, using about one number per second ("six... one.. three..") But whenever I tried to do this it would interrupt me and say "I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Please, try again." It took me a while to realize that I was actually supposed to rattle off my phone number at a conversational pace. THAT it could understand.

We also had voice dialing. Which worked great... sometimes. I can just imagine that technology applied to a voice controlled iPod:

"iPod, next song please."
"I heard, Black Eyed Peas, is that correct?"
"No!"
"Please restate your command."
"Volume down."
"I heard, System of a Down, is that correct?"
"Aaargh!"
"Please say 'yes', or 'no'...."

Hey, maybe this is what the Newton engineers have been re-assigned to?

Heh, reminds me of trying to talk to "Melanie" on Rogers to recharge my mobile phone credit. Could've taken 2 seconds by just pressing the buttons corresponding to the numbers on the recharge card but noooo.... You have to tell her the numbers slowly and clearly...oh, and in a high-pitched Canadian accent. Try doing that when you have even my very soft Aussie accent. I just used to talk crap until they put me onto an operator. So annoying and far more annoying than pushing a button.

My last post disappeared into the strangeness that is stalking these forums but I think they could be basing an inline remote for control around a small nano-sized click wheel.

 

[Evan_11]

I see a voice activated iPod being targeted at the excercise market much like the Nike + iPod promotion. Runners could care less about sound quality so a bluetooth headset would work. Just make it light weight, stylish and functional.

 

[conditionals]

Maybe it will ship covered in acid.

 

[jaxstate]

HA, I surely did .

You must have read it the way I did, with the hyphen in the wrong place

"Apple files patent for a reliable real time-transport protocol"

 

[kresh]

Sidestepping the Creative Lawsuit

Update: A recent Apple patent describing an audio interface for the iPod could be related to the "none-touch" concept. Patent described at Macsimum.

I wonder if this will sidestep the suit brought on by Creative. Apple changes interface thus defeating Creatives attempt to stop iPods being sold in the US.

Apple keeps pressure with their countersuit, keeping Creative in a defensive posture (like Creative was ever really on offense).

hmm. interesting.

 

[macaddict06]

Slow News Day.

Clearly, this is an indication that bio-implantable iPods are coming. It makes sense since the Chinese are rolling out BMEs like crazy, and we have iPods that we don't want to have to look at. Knowing Apple, the surgery will be good, but the clear case will be $99...and not as good as other ones
Seriously, I don't think this means anything. For one, the guy's ship is damaged after (during) the Foxconn employee bit, and so he is likely to say things that will make them more reputable - they know Steve won't agree or disagree on anything regarding future iPod developments. Second, the translation makes no sense, really. Just because it's in Chinese does not mean that the translation can't make sense. They can do a lot better with the translation (although I would have to agree that the second time he said it, it wasn't exactly the same, so maybe the video of the guy saying it is a fake...

 

[treblah]

I wonder if this will sidestep the suit brought on by Creative. Apple changes interface thus defeating Creatives attempt to stop iPods being sold in the US.

You may be on to something. If the supposed timeline is to be believed, Apple could be in some hot water.

 

[chrismccorkle]

Why not?

Wow. Nice concept image.
Not.

 

[ITR 81]

bluetooth remote controlled iPod.

Very none-touch.(your just using the remote)

I figured touch screen would come into effect..but who knows.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Whoever made that "fake iPod" elevator pic is a genius.

That's like two or three different "leaked" apple product photo concepts put together.

 

[ITR 81]

I wonder if this will sidestep the suit brought on by Creative. Apple changes interface thus defeating Creatives attempt to stop iPods being sold in the US.

Apple keeps pressure with their countersuit, keeping Creative in a defensive posture (like Creative was ever really on offense).

hmm. interesting.

I'm just waiting for Creative to fold up shop or Apple to buy them out.

 

[wronski]

Man this 'true' video ipod is the stupidest thing I've heard. Just because the screen isn't 4" doesn't make it a fake video ipod. And yes I know it's not just macrumors that use this term.

How about... 'good' video iPod or 'nicely sized' video iPod?

 

[Cobrien]

Whats the biggest competition for iPods right now. Mobile phones. They have technology called A2DP which allows bluetooth headphones.

In order to keep up with this Apple may have created an iPod with A2DP so that u can listen to music wirelessly an stream music wirelessly.

Just a thought.

 

[dicklacara]

How could it be "none-touch" - what does that mean???

iClapper!

 

[nagromme]

Man this 'true' video ipod is the stupidest thing I've heard. Just because the screen isn't 4" doesn't make it a fake video ipod. And yes I know it's not just macrumors that use this term.

I think what people mean is an iPod dedicated to video first, and costing more as a result, and being marketed as a video player--rather than an iPod dedicated to music first and foremost while video is just a freebie extra. (But that approach was a very smart way for Apple to test the market without risking a video iPod selling low--and being called a failure.)

A bigger screen would certainly be the factor that made it more like other "video players" and less like a traditional iPod.

Whoever made that "fake iPod" elevator pic is a genius.

That's like two or three different "leaked" apple product photo concepts put together.

My little tribute to my favorite kind of Mac hoax: the elevator photo. A timeless tradition. "This Way!"

 

[someguy]

hmmmm - touch screen interface

What part of "none-touch" don't you understand?

 

[Bad Beaver]

Well, next Special Edition iPod will be the MC Hammer edition. No doubt about that.

 

[bigandy]

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/2178811/

yup, that's definately real.

it's an apple product in a lift, it must be legit!

 

[gugy]

Wont happen till Oct...

Heres why..

New U2 iPod Released

They just started the iPod with Mac discount

First iPod was in Oct of 2001, Oct 2001 to Oct 2006 is 5 years... They will make a big deal out of it being 5 years!!!!

Other side notes.....

Finish all Macs to intel before the new iPod

It makes sense.
I think the new ipod will come the earliest after Summer. not during it.
October seems a good time. August will be big for the Pro Mac towers at WWDC, so Apple focus will be on that, so it makes sense around September/October to see the new Ipod.

 

[milo]

Man this 'true' video ipod is the stupidest thing I've heard. Just because the screen isn't 4" doesn't make it a fake video ipod. And yes I know it's not just macrumors that use this term.

So what do you propose calling it instead?


I don't really care what the next gen is, I just hope it's fairly soon. I was about ready to buy a nano, but I get the feeling that we'll likely have an update before too long, and even if it's a capacity boost, I don't want to miss out on it.

Is there any real intel on when an update or at least refresh may happen?

 

[Macnoviz]

All the clues are there, there's no more doubt about it:

New Powerbooks on Thuesday !!