Yes, okay toutchscreen is a good thing to move the manual clickwheel but i still think the clickwheel will be added in the toutchscreen. but i mean that the ipod will not have features like wifi or email or internet such things....
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6G iPod User Interface Redesign and Videos
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Yes, okay toutchscreen is a good thing to move the manual clickwheel but i still think the clickwheel will be added in the toutchscreen. but i mean that the ipod will not have features like wifi or email or internet such things....
While Apple's actions suggest the video came from within Apple, there is nothing to link the demonstrated interface to a product which will be or is about to be released.
For all we know, it could be a rejected design for a user interface, prehaps for a 6G spun off an upgraded 5g, rather than iphone platform.
For all we know, it could be a rejected design for a user interface, prehaps for a 6G spun off an upgraded 5g, rather than iphone platform.
Let me just throw this out:
Apple does "mock-up" UI interfaces in...Flash. Its entirely possible its a video of an early mock-up rather than a production-ready setup. Could explain the sloppiness + lack of some consistency.
About the clickwheel: Is it just me, or is it easier to navigate large volumes of music with a clickwheel easier than with the iphone? I have a 5.5 ipod and an iphone, and I honestly think the wheel works better. And coverflow can easily be done with a clickwheel.
Finally, with retention of the wheel: look at iphone dissections. Not much space is there for the cell/wifi stuff. To make a full-screen touch ipod, it would be much thicker to incorporate an HD, even with removal of the phone components.
Apple does "mock-up" UI interfaces in...Flash. Its entirely possible its a video of an early mock-up rather than a production-ready setup. Could explain the sloppiness + lack of some consistency.
About the clickwheel: Is it just me, or is it easier to navigate large volumes of music with a clickwheel easier than with the iphone? I have a 5.5 ipod and an iphone, and I honestly think the wheel works better. And coverflow can easily be done with a clickwheel.
Finally, with retention of the wheel: look at iphone dissections. Not much space is there for the cell/wifi stuff. To make a full-screen touch ipod, it would be much thicker to incorporate an HD, even with removal of the phone components.
yes, I also think the new ipod wont be full toutchscreen because it would be thicker than the ipod now and it wouldn't be like a improvement like a slimmer design and it would be wierd if the ipod would get fatter... i think the 7g ipod will be full toutchscreen.
I find it funny how no one has mentioned this post, which was #10. I'm assuming he knows something about this whole thing?
Agreed.
It must be real or someone has "guessed" pretty accurately the UI, for apple to ask for it to be removed.
iPod Nano??
Has anybody considered that this is merely a 3G iPod nano interface. This would make sense since the nano will certainly have the wheel and the full size will be the touch screen. This would make perfect sense.
Any Thoughts??
Has anybody considered that this is merely a 3G iPod nano interface. This would make sense since the nano will certainly have the wheel and the full size will be the touch screen. This would make perfect sense.
Any Thoughts??
It is so fake that it is true somehow.
Well, Engadget has it online now too. Do they will get also a call from Apple? And what is with DAPReview? So everyone posting this news, link to youtube video but only Mac Rumors is forced to remove the rumor?
It is so fake that it is true somehow.
Well, Engadget has it online now too. Do they will get also a call from Apple? And what is with DAPReview? So everyone posting this news, link to youtube video but only Mac Rumors is forced to remove the rumor?
Yeah don't know if apple can do much now its out.
Well, DAPReview seems to have been slammed (currently a message from their admin displays saying their servers can't hang w/ the hits) but last night? Their article attributed MR for the story as does Engadget:
So I guess Apple went for the first site to report it. Even then, it took them some time (the OP timestamp is Saturday ~6PM PDT, and was edited to remove information at 1AM on Sunday, so roughly seven hours) to ask for MR to remove the information... perhaps with some more time, it'll be removed from Engadget and DAPReview.
It is so fake that it is true somehow.
Well, Engadget has it online now too. Do they will get also a call from Apple? And what is with DAPReview? So everyone posting this news, link to youtube video but only Mac Rumors is forced to remove the rumor?
No. Engadget, Gizmodo and everyone else got the same letter that Macrumors got from Apple.
Macrumors tends to bow down to Apple-- the other guys aren't bullied away.
I sometimes wonder if Macrumors isn't a loosely affiliated Apple site- getting tidbits here and there straight from the top at Apple, in return for publicizing well planned Apple leaks (coming straight from Apple, of course).
It is very similar to celebrities and tabloids/paprazzi. Each scratches the other's back. Paris Hilton secretly tells Us magazine she will be at some club tonight- to make sure they are there with cameras. She gets the press, they get the pictures/advertising. Same thing with rumor sites.
They didn't release a spy video for the iphone, I remember reading articles that stated that Jobs and co. made decoys of the iphone just to see if there was a mole in the company. Some would say that Kevin Rose's reliable source (back when he revealed details of what he thought was going to be the iphone) was duped by one of those decoys. There is also a wired magazine article where they talk about the development of the ipod and claimed that when the ipod was first developed, there were decoy models produced to keep the iPods design a secret for only those working on it. Although these two instances were not spy video's, they do indicate that Apple has attempted to manipulate the mac rumor mill before, so anything, right now could be possible (we'll only know for sure when Steve announces it).
I already have Notes, Calendar, ToDos, Contacts, voice notes, games, PDF support, alarm, stop watch and a World clock on my iPod. Read only yes, but they are definitely PDA features.
This may be true but the video on youtube was posted 16 hours ag
ne would think Apple working so close with youtube that video would have been gone also.Attachments
I remember the 3rd Gen iPods (I had one briefly) with their touch buttons and found it inferior to the click wheel because of it's mechanical component. I like to have my pod in the pocket and reach down and press a button, with touch screen that isn't likely, unless you have really thin pants. That's a big advantage for me. Having a full wider screen is also nice.
The wheel just doesn't really fit a widescreen object without taking up space. I wanna see how this new iPod turns out
I don't know the ins and outs of how macrumors is run, but I think its more down to macrumors don't want to get sued rather than some secret arrangement with apple.
Engadget = AOL. They can afford to be sued.
As can Gizmodo.
I didn't get a letter. I got a phone call at 3am.
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Yeah, and how do you know its actually apple legal ?
BTW im not for 1 second suggesting that it isn't, just curious.
