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Apple Adjusts iPod Touch Prices and Storage: 32GB For $199, 128GB For $299
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Your suggestion to rename the iPod Touch as the iPad Nano is logical, but implementing it would give credibility to all the people who criticized Apple when the iPad was first released, condescendingly referring to it as an "oversized iPod Touch."
Kids? Much cheaper to get your elementary schooler a $199 iPod Touch instead of a $650 iPhone if they just want to play mobile games.
I dined in a restaurant where the waiter took my order using an iPod touch. Once I finished giving him the order, it was sent back to the kitchen wirelessly, instantly. He then popped the iPod touch into his shirt pocket, leaving both hands free.
It's a terrific device for various customer service roles and other business uses, such as maintenance logging.
Just a manifestation of Apple Narcissist Disorder=if an Apple product isn't relevant to me, then it must be discontinued.
The poster child product for the disorder is, the Apple Watch.
They should just make a new iPod touch and just call it "iPod". Then make it different than an iPhone by making a true gaming handheld device like the PSVita or Nintendo Switch is. Then I think it will sell tremendously.
It’s an epidemic.Just a manifestation of Apple Narcissist Disorder=if an Apple product isn't relevant to me, then it must be discontinued.
The poster child product for the disorder is, the Apple Watch.
because there are people like me who likes to keep their music all in one device and not on a phone.
Where else to keep the music if you don’t have a cd player anymore??
I have two of them for my kids. One is 7 years old, the other is 5. The ipods are perfect for them because they cost much less than an iphone and I don't need them to have a data plan on them. They can do anything I can do with the iphone except make and receive phone calls.
Other people have already chimed in on this, but I also have an iPod touch, and it's not because I don't have an iPhone (though that is also the case for kids, those on a stricter budget, etc.). I have two reasons: first, capacity on an iPod is cheaper than similar capacity on a phone. The cheapest iPhone, the 32 GB iPhone SE, starts at $399, whereas the iPod now starts at $199 for 32 GB, so you could literally buy two of them for about the same price as one iPhone. (I think this was even more marked when both started at 16 GB if you wanted a higher capacity phone, but I can't recall the exact numbers.) Second, I treat the iPod as a sort of "insurance" policy for my phone. I use my iPod mostly at the gym, where it's subject to sweat, inadvertently getting thrown around a bit, etc., which would make me very uncomfortable with my phone (not just because of the price but because then I'd also lose my primary communications device until I get it fixed or replaced). The iPod does everything I need from iOS at the gym with none of the worry I'd get with my phone.
Why does it bother you so much that Apple makes a product that other people clearly use but you don't personally? They did just say goodbye to a lot of the more "classic" iPod models (after saying goodby to the literal "classic"). I doubt they'll get rid of the Touch unless the iPhone comes drastically down in price or it gets easier to set one up without a SIM card (with or without service).
1. Enterprise - e.g.. retailers use them for quick stock lookup etc.
2. They'll be great to stream to the new Apple speaker. Think of it as an ultra-smart remote control - with apps!
Because not everyone wants (or can) hold all their music on a phone. And because some people don’t have cd players anymore .
For me is just much easier to have all my music on a Ipod
For running and the gym they are above anything else. Like I want to be running 10k with an iPhone 6s Plus.
I've tried the cheapo MP3 stuff and they all suck. I snagged a nano today at Walmart, the last one they had.
Pufff... Anyone stupid enough to buy this outdated crap for 200? You can buy a decent Android phone and use it as a music player for cheaper.... Much better value than iPod Touch..Apple is selling three years old tech for 199... What a rip off
close enough.
My point was that form factor would only cannibalize other iPhone/iPad sizes and wouldn't increase sales.
128GB is still not enough to replace the iPod Classic 160GB model to hold a comparable amount of music. If they're going to do this, they should have offered 256GB as well. They would have made a lot more money from the iPod die yards they're keeping this around for, and still not have been in competition with any other product.
This is a compelling argument. The iPods that Apple stopped making were all ridiculously low capacity. But a 128GB iPod makes a lot of sense. It's my collection, all together in one place, no streaming. That's why I picked one up the day of the price drop. Previously, I had to split my collection over two 64GB 4th gen Touches.
[Edit] Does anyone have any experience with classical in the Android ecosystem? Does it recognize the composer tag or ignore it completely, the way most non-Apple MP3 players and streaming services seem to?
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