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Apple Adjusts iPod Touch Prices and Storage: 32GB For $199, 128GB For $299
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200 dollars between 16gb and largest capacity while the cost of cheapest is only 200 dollars to begin with!? Were apple smoking something. Kill this thing already and just make an iPhone with no antennas like the iPad. Having different tooling and low volumes must make this thing a lost leader.
You can pick up an iPhone SE for $159, no strings attached. Locked to a prepaid carrier, but if you're someone looking for an iPod Touch you probably didn't want cellular in the first place. So, an SE would be a much wiser purchase even if locked to a network, at $159. Still could make and receive calls over wifi, too.
[doublepost=1501193633][/doublepost]It would be nice if they added Apple car play to the iPods!!
Apple today tweaked its iPod touch storage and pricing configurations after discontinuing the iPod nano and iPod shuffle.
Apple's new iPod touch lineup is priced as following in the United States:
o 32GB: $199
o 128GB: $299
o 16GB and 64GB discontinued
Apple's previous iPod touch lineup was priced as following:
o 16GB: $199
o 32GB: $249
o 64GB: $299
o 128GB: $399
The new configurations are currently in stock on Apple's online store in the same colors as previously: Silver, Gold, Space Gray, Pink, Blue, and Red.
Apple last updated the iPod touch in July 2015 with an Apple A8 chip and 8-megapixel rear-facing iSight camera.
Article Link: Apple Adjusts iPod Touch Prices and Storage: 32GB For $199, 128GB For $299
And running with an iPod Touch would be much different? (Admittedly, I know it is thinner and slightly lighter, but it is still the same size.)
For running, the superior choice is an iPod Shuffle or an Apple Watch.
You asked why anyone would buy one a Touch and to buy an iPhone instead.
I totally agree a Shuffle or watch is ideal. Or Nano for running.
Just not an iPhone (or iPod touch).
The Touch has a much better form factor. I don't need to feel like I'm carrying two cell phones.
I agree. Shuffle would be ideal for running. The iPod Touch is much lighter than a phone, but still, it'll fall out of a pocket when jogging.
I JUST bought my first cell phone this month, after using an iPod touch from the first year it was introduced. 41, and I finally thought I *might* need to make a call every once in a while, upgrading from a 5G iPod Touch. wifi works great for most communication with nearly anyone, and an awesome work device.
iPhone 7 is much heavier and significantly bigger than the Touch, and price difference is crazy in Canada. $450 CAD for a 128GB iPod Touch vs $1200 for a 128GB iPhone 7. Then, I'm looking at another $60 or more a month for a phone plan.
What the above host of comments shows is that there are indeed several ways of using an iPod Touch and that many people all over the world use them as intended.
The original purpose for this device hasn't changed and as long as you don't need, or can't use, an iPhone for whatever reason, Apple can still make money out of this device which has amortised its original design costs, including current and future upgrade costs, many years ago.
The original purpose for this device hasn't changed and as long as you don't need, or can't use, an iPhone for whatever reason, Apple can still make money out of this device which has amortised its original design costs, including current and future upgrade costs, many years ago.
I wont be surprised if these get discontinued next year. By now, most parents have enough older iPhones laying around to hand down to kids etc.
I would rather give my kids an older iPhone and turn on a cell service when in need - like on a vacation etc, instead of relay on a public wifi which most of the times sucks anyway.
I would rather give my kids an older iPhone and turn on a cell service when in need - like on a vacation etc, instead of relay on a public wifi which most of the times sucks anyway.
I'm also shocked that they didn't drop the name "touch" and bump the specs. It's a great device for kids, but could have used that spec bump with a lower price-tag.
Yes. They have the same processors is the iPhone six series.
Less upkeep, it already runs iOS instead of an old proprietary OS.
Though given the lack of updates (still has a 4" screen) if they don't update it in the next year or two odds are against it sticking around.
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I agree. Only Rose Gold Apple product I've liked cost ten grand.
I have the latest Gen 6 iPod Touch 128 GB which I got in August 2015. It's my 2nd Touch. I recently got a free Android phone from my carrier. I write sometimes for both platforms so it's good to know my way around the latest iOS and Android.
I use the Touch for:
- storing a small fraction of my big music collection, especially as my car player
- camera/video camera/Instagram
- about 25 language dictionaries in 12 languages, including the amazing, free "Japanese"
- Google Translate with 20+ offline modules downloaded, works through camera too, 100% free
- Free Facetime and Skype calls to Europe, Japan, NZ, Central America, anywhere.
- watching Netflix (small screen OK for docs and sitcoms), free NRK (Norwegian TV) etc
- timer, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, notes etc
- Transit App worldwide bus and train schedules with real time info via wifi location services (non-log-in)
- Acrobat lists, articles, etc, including lists of all my music and DVDs etc so I don't buy dupes.
- New Yorker digital issues, daily stories and archives, NYT stories
- Final Draft screenplay writing program with Dropbox sync
- Scrivener writing program with Dropbox sync
- 100+ books in Kindle reader, including free offline pop-up in-language dictionaries (French, German, etc)
- Radio and TV stations around the world via apps
- Soundcloud and BBC iPlayer for podcasts
- Spotify and Pandora
- Garage Band
- iMovie
- Banjo tuner!
(I do not use Apple Music as it would destroy my extensive iTunes music collection's tags and artwork.)
Many of these things are completely free. About half require at least occasional WiFi.
I've always liked that I could be available for jobs overseas without massive cellular carrier cancellation fees and the possibility that my carrier's system may make an iPhone incompatible abroad.
So the iPod Touch makes a lot of things possible without expenses or strings attached.
I use the Touch for:
- storing a small fraction of my big music collection, especially as my car player
- camera/video camera/Instagram
- about 25 language dictionaries in 12 languages, including the amazing, free "Japanese"
- Google Translate with 20+ offline modules downloaded, works through camera too, 100% free
- Free Facetime and Skype calls to Europe, Japan, NZ, Central America, anywhere.
- watching Netflix (small screen OK for docs and sitcoms), free NRK (Norwegian TV) etc
- timer, calculator, alarm clock, stopwatch, notes etc
- Transit App worldwide bus and train schedules with real time info via wifi location services (non-log-in)
- Acrobat lists, articles, etc, including lists of all my music and DVDs etc so I don't buy dupes.
- New Yorker digital issues, daily stories and archives, NYT stories
- Final Draft screenplay writing program with Dropbox sync
- Scrivener writing program with Dropbox sync
- 100+ books in Kindle reader, including free offline pop-up in-language dictionaries (French, German, etc)
- Radio and TV stations around the world via apps
- Soundcloud and BBC iPlayer for podcasts
- Spotify and Pandora
- Garage Band
- iMovie
- Banjo tuner!
(I do not use Apple Music as it would destroy my extensive iTunes music collection's tags and artwork.)
Many of these things are completely free. About half require at least occasional WiFi.
I've always liked that I could be available for jobs overseas without massive cellular carrier cancellation fees and the possibility that my carrier's system may make an iPhone incompatible abroad.
So the iPod Touch makes a lot of things possible without expenses or strings attached.
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Read the reviews on Best Buy. Everyone is saying they're locked and can't be activated on other carriers. Why would Verizon let you do that??
He is stuck on whatever he believes and refuses to listen to anyone else in this entire debate. And his point is: iPhone SE can be bought at a cheaper price than iPod Touch so iPod Touch is redundant.
I actually wish they'd make a 5.5" or bigger version of the iPod touch. I'll never give up my 4" iPhone when I'm out and about, but when I'm home I'd like something bigger but still handheld and somewhat pocketable. All the iPads even the mini are too big for this. A bigger iPod touch would be closer to ideal.
I suppose the name iPod doesn't have to mean only music. It's just a name that was arbitrarily associated with only music in the past but the meaning can shift. I think it's still fitting because when I think of pod I think of small and compact.
I suppose the name iPod doesn't have to mean only music. It's just a name that was arbitrarily associated with only music in the past but the meaning can shift. I think it's still fitting because when I think of pod I think of small and compact.
Sorry if somebody already mentioned this but once again a bummer for UK as prices go up... Base iPod touch was £20 cheaper at £179 before this adjustment (they are now £199), and Apple refurb store had the 'old' 16GB ones for £139, but now even those have gone up £10 to £149...
My 8 year old loves hers.
But I do believe Apple needs to minor update the models, Do a CPU update and add a bigger battery. Battery life is an issue as IOS eats power vs older models.
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Yep, my kids love using their iPod touch. But yes, they could use an update, maybe slightly larger, updated CPU and.. bigger battery, iOS eats battery life and the engineers got too inspired at the notion of thinness over battery life.
I totally agree. To those folks who deem iPods unnecessary in the age of iphones, can I just have my music without constantly being bothered by instant communications??
Interestingly enough the 128GB variant has actually seen a DECREASE-Apple wanted £379 for it last year (I paid just over £300 thanks to my employee's discount scheme).
Considering that @Traverse picked up a 128 GB the other month that still was on iOS 8, it is probably to move the existing stock before discontinuing them.
As for the "classic" iPods, they probably weren't selling either. The mainstream audience those were originally targeted to has moved on to streaming and using their iPhones and the 120/160 GB iPod Classic crowds were never going to be interested in them without matching storage sizes and battery life. But even if they met those demands, people still wouldn't like that it didn't have a click wheel anyway.