iPod touch 128GB iPod Touch?

[Bernard SG]

I really doubt Apple ever releases a 128 G iPod Touch. I would bet that even the currently existing 64 GB is a tough sell.
I think 32 GB is a balanced compromise for the biggest portion of users.

 

[dakshjuneja]

with a 128gb iPod touch , don't you think the processor will be whoped ?

 

[ghall]

I seriously think if Apple is going to discontinue the iPod classic they need to replace it with a high capacity iPod touch. I mean I have a relatively small music library, but I cannot settle for less than the 32GB model. I can't imagine people with much larger libraries can fit it all in a 64GB iPod.

 

[transmaster]

You think there will be one this year?

I don't think so not with iCloud. The only thing that might bump the memory up is memory hog software such as the rumored voice interface Apple and Nuance is working on for iOS devices. for me memory capacity is a moot point I have 3.5 Terabytes of music and 768 gig's of video.

 

[baypharm]

Well I would snatch one up in a New York heartbeat....

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I really doubt Apple ever releases a 128 G iPod Touch. I would bet that even the currently existing 64 GB is a tough sell.
I think 32 GB is a balanced compromise for the biggest portion of users.

Well I have an iPod Classic with 160gb and it is almost filled. Between photos, videos, and thousands and thousands of songs, etc.....

I also have an iPod Touch and would LOVE to have 256gb flash memory in there....OMG!!

 

[alust2013]

with a 128gb iPod touch , don't you think the processor will be whoped ?

No, it would be the same, you can just have more stuff on it, nothing to do with the CPU.

Well I have an iPod Classic with 160gb and it is almost filled. Between photos, videos, and thousands and thousands of songs, etc.....

I also have an iPod Touch and would LOVE to have 256gb flash memory in there....OMG!!

Hello $1000 iPod.

Maybe I'm just not hip to the super-high bitrate music, but my library (mixed formats, 128-256kbps) is about 7GB, and is 3.5 days of music. That's a lot for me, plus I get my music legally.

 

[Invincibilizer]

I listen to classical, jazz and new age. I don't keep rewinding Beethoven's 7th over and over.
I like variety, and I am sure I am not alone in my music taste or my listening behavior. Making a broad statement regarding you being an average consumer is very presumptuous.

Further, saying a 128 GB touch is outlandishly large is your opinion. There have been others, on this forum alone, who disagree with your opinion.

My opinion does not matter but the fact is that I am accurate sample of the population in terms of music and music storage capacity, there are very few people that need a 128GB ipod touch. Even less, if you go and talk to a person in real life.

I agree with this man. 128GB is complete overkill. I keep 1GB of music on my iPod touch and i switch it around for other albums when i get tired of it. I've never felt the need to add more music.

Most consumers including me are like this.

I really doubt Apple ever releases a 128 G iPod Touch. I would bet that even the currently existing 64 GB is a tough sell.
I think 32 GB is a balanced compromise for the biggest portion of users.

Agreed 32GB is still the perfect size, 64 is slowly becoming justifiable.

 

[Carouser]

So there was never any need for over 64 GB then, which has existed in iPods since 2005, over 6 YEARS ago. All those millions of people who bought all those millions of 60+ GB iPods simply for capacity reasons were ignorant jerks who just wanted to spend more money but had no real need for any capacity over 60 GB. I so glad you brought that to light.

You don't need it so no one does. I'm continually amazed how one person can use that logic over and over again.

Tony

People who needed more than 64GB years ago didn't have the option to refill their music through WiFi, which is now widely-available. The market of those who need both (1) more than 64GB and (2) are never able to refill it before being at their computer or WiFi again after running through all 64GB is even smaller than it was.

This has nothing to do with what I need, it's that the demand for such a product is drastically reduced and therefore Apple has little incentive to satisfy it, even if a few dozen people on these boards would like to have it.

Just because some people want it doesn't mean that Apple has an incentive or obligation to satisfy that demand, because it may simply be too small and unprofitable. The strength of your desire for such a product doesn't correlate with its economic feasibility.

I hope you understand this Tony, because you're wrong and perpetually fail to get the argument. I hope this explanation causes you less trouble than the previous ones.

EDIT: Holy loly at the people downvoting claims that "the market for such a device at a predicted price is too small to warrant Apple pursuing it". Does it hurt your feelings or something?

 

[karma13612]

I agree with this man. 128GB is complete overkill. I keep 1GB of music on my iPod touch and i switch it around for other albums when i get tired of it. I've never felt the need to add more music.

yet you have 2 iPod Touchs and a Shuffle. All totalled, that's more than 1 GB.

I don't want to have to fiddle with several different devices. I want one device where I can load the thing up with music and play whatever suits my tastes at that particular moment. I have eclectic music taste and 1 GB certainly would not come close to covering my needs. The Classic might suffice, but I also want the ability to listen to Pandora when I have a free internet connection, and I want to be able to do light surfing and download more music or apps when needed. You can't do that with the Classic. I don't want a money-hungry phone contract, so I don't want the iPhone.

For every person, there is a specific set of needs, and for me, a nice high capacity iPod Touch is 'the bee's knees'.

Humans have always grown to use all that is given to them. If you come from a studio apartment and then buy and live in a mansion, just see how fast you fill the mansion. And it is a given that people live beyond their means. That's why the credit card business is so lucrative.

I don't like making generalizations, but the previous two statements are pretty well established.

Where as, saying that 128 GB is way over the top, is, well an Over-the-top statement. In my opinion.

 

[Tones2]

People who needed more than 64GB years ago didn't have the option to refill their music through WiFi, which is now widely-available. The market of those who need both (1) more than 64GB and (2) are never able to refill it before being at their computer or WiFi again after running through all 64GB is even smaller than it was.

OK - Go ahead and explain to me how you completely refill 64 GB of music over WiFi. In detail.

Jeez.......

Tony

 

[karma13612]

People who needed more than 64GB years ago didn't have the option to refill their music through WiFi, which is now widely-available.

WiFi (at least the Verizon kind I am using) costs money. And when you go over, you pay overage charges. I was an early adopter (2009) and when I go over 5GB per month, it costs 5 cents a MB. I went over my usage last month. Instead of 5GB, I used 8GB. The bill was $205.oo instead of the usual $60.00

The greedy ISP's are going to love iCloud because people are going to be increasing their data usage.

It will cost me less to initially purchase a larger capacity iPod Touch than to keep using WiFi (and cloud??) to go back and get more of my music from my 'drive in the clouds'. Yes, I could keep going back to my computer or some external hard drive, but that is just really a pain when I have other things I need to be doing. Again, this is my process, and my needs.

Purely a personal thing. But, it also indicates that there are a least a few of us out there who like the idea of a larger capacity iPod Touch. Apple may not find it economically feasible, but that has nothing to do with there being an actual need.

 

[Carouser]

OK - Go ahead and explain to me how you completely refill 64 GB of music over WiFi. In detail.

Jeez.......

Tony

Find what you want to delete in your music app, swipe, press 'delete'. Find what you want to refill, download it. Oh no, that's a lot to do for a whole 64GB. Too bad usage patterns show that the number of people who will do that for 64GB at a time is miniscule.

But it's irrelevant - o you think anything about this process means there actually is a feasible market for a 128GB iPod Touch at the price it would be? Cause my argument is that there isn't, and it still stands pretty well, despite all the rolleyes you post.

Purely a personal thing. But, it also indicates that there are a least a few of us out there who like the idea of a larger capacity iPod Touch. Apple may not find it economically feasible, but that has nothing to do with there being an actual need.

And I've never said there weren't people who had such a need, so we disagree on nothing.

 

[Tones2]

But it's irrelevant - o you think anything about this process means there actually is a feasible market for a 128GB iPod Touch at the price it would be? Cause my argument is that there isn't, and it still stands pretty well, despite all the rolleyes you post.

And I've never said there weren't people who had such a need, so we disagree on nothing.

I agree with the cost aspect at this time, and as I've said all along, I didn't think it was going to happen this year for that reason. I DO suspect that it will happen whenever 64 GB chip flash prices come down. That may be next year.

I DO think there is a substantial market that would want a 128 GB Touch if it was at a reasonable price, just like there was a substantial market for the iPod Classic. People do not want the hassle of deleting / downloading, and also using up data caps. Apple didn't mention discontinuing the iPod Classic today so they still feel a need for a high capacity device. Eventually, hopefully soon, that will be the 128 GB Touch.

However, now I don't care as much since I can now get a 64 GB iPhone and use the 128 kpbs on-the-fly compression to get MOSt of what I want on my phone. Although I really wanted a 4"+ iPhone screen, it's still a pretty good day.

Tony

 

[transmaster]

Just how much do you really need?

I was just looking at what is on my iPod Touch 4G 64gig. My system info shows I have a total of 59.14 GB of space, in that space there is 78 hours of video, a total of 73 TV shows, 94 hours of music( 77 albums plus singles), 6 Audio books totalling 42 hours, and 292 hours of podcasts (455 of them). All of that stored in 48.4 GB, I have 10.8 GB’s of free space remaining. Just how much do you need to carry around with you? hmmm?

P.S. I must confess I am a digital packrat. If you think what I have on my Touch is too much you should see what I have stuffed into 6 TB's of hard drive space. I wonder if there is a Digital Packrat Anonymous. "Q: My name is Noob I can't delete anything, A: Hello Noob"

 

[terraphantm]

I was just looking at what is on my iPod Touch 4G 64gig. My system info shows I have a total of 59.14 GB of space, in that space there is 78 hours of video, a total of 73 TV shows, 94 hours of music( 77 albums plus singles), 6 Audio books totalling 42 hours, and 292 hours of podcasts (455 of them). All of that stored in 48.4 GB, I have 10.8 GB’s of free space remaining. Just how much do you need to carry around with you? hmmm?

P.S. I must confess I am a digital packrat. If you think what I have on my Touch is too much you should see what I have stuffed into 6 TB's of hard drive space. I wonder if there is a Digital Packrat Anonymous. "Q: My name is Noob I can't delete anything, A: Hello Noob"

Heh, I'm almost the same (4TB instead of 6). I'm almost hoping for multiple harddrive failures so that I can't rebuild my raid array and am forced to start from scratch

 

[kaydot]

My 64 gig iPod touch is filled completely with Music. I think it's 12000 songs or something like that. I like to carry around all my music, and I don't like to spend time thinking about what to sync. I want to hook it up, sync everything, and move on. That said, because I am out of space, I "uncheck" some albums that I don't need daily (see: christmas albums), but otherwise, I enjoy having the option to listen to whatever is in my collection.

But my other concern... I don't understand how a 64 gig iPod touch in 2008 costs the same as a 64 gig iPod touch in 2010 costs the same as a 64gig iPod touch in 2011 and 2012. Have memory prices and part prices not come down at all? Or is Apple simply increasing their profit margin in the absence of any real competition. Either way - the lack of refresh for the iPod touch... Seems to be great from Apple's corporate perspective (for those of us who want to defend such a decision), but quite annoying from a consumer's perspective.

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"Most consumers including me are like this".

Don't we need some kind of survey or other analysis to prove this claim?

 

[Thetonyk123]

128gb is huge! Its bigger than my laptops hard drive (100gb). I would never need that much space. I have the 32gb and i still have 25.7gb of free space (using 3.3gb because it comes with 29gb). I really don't see the need for this. However it would be nice to have even if it is $500.

 

[killer8297]

128gb can be used up quite fast with flac, But I doubt you'll able to hear the difference from an iPod with crappy headphones. With 128gb you can probability fit the entire app store on it LOL.

 

[sracer]

I DO think there is a substantial market that would want a 128 GB Touch if it was at a reasonable price, just like there was a substantial market for the iPod Classic. People do not want the hassle of deleting / downloading, and also using up data caps. Apple didn't mention discontinuing the iPod Classic today so they still feel a need for a high capacity device. Eventually, hopefully soon, that will be the 128 GB Touch.

There has never been an iPod model capable of holding my entire collection. So I learned early on to manage my collection. Those of us who have owned mp3 players before the introduction of the iPod know what I'm talking about.

Ironically, it was Apple who pushed the idea of the "need" to carry one's entire collection with them. It was a marketing ploy to push the higher capacity, higher profit margin iPods. ("sync all media" was the default and only option in iTunes for the first few years)

If there is a market for a $500 128GB iPod Touch and Apple can make a larger percentage profit than they do on a 64GB Touch, then they'll produce one. That won't do me (or many others) any good since even THAT capacity wouldn't be large enough.

Not only is capacity an issue, but also navigating through the sheer number of albums, artist, and tracks (represented by 100's GB of media).

The iPod user interface is not the best for navigating and exploring a large collection. The Zune HD UI was a step in the right direction and the "pinnable" QuickView screen is something that I wish iPods offered.