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Apple announces iPod nano
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Flux Harmonic said:
Sorry for not already having an iPod (a.ka. iPod photo). 🙄
IMO it's more like a mix between an iPod and a shuffle (both technologically and visually).
Xapplimatic
macrumors 6502
Finally in black without U2, but no FireWire is getting stale.
Oh Snap! I just saw the black onyx colored Nano.. This is the iPod that should have always been. I can't stand it! I'm giving into Apple retail store impulse spending pressure.. No.. stop.. don't.. arggghh.. my money! Oh.. wow.. Neeeeice! heh. Can't wait to feel this one in my hand.. then again, it's so light, it'll be almost like it aint there at all. No more drive spin up delays or seek access-time pauses between skipping through songs will be new for sure.. I bet it burns quite fast on file transfers. Too bad it isn't FireWire.. Not that it will really break the camel's back on a 2GB or 4GB max model, but those seconds do add up when you use it as an external drive. I am so sick of Apple putting out new iPods that only use UselesSB 2. When is Apple gonna help out the high-end "Pod people" who buy and use all 20-60 whopping gigabytes of the top tier models and bring FireWire back out of the closet with a much faster, more reliably powered FireWire800-equipped iPod with a touchscreen? Eh, I'm a dreamer, but hey, with Apple, you just never know. Steve has a habit of making eDreams come true. It really is too bad it seems they have all but abandoned their own brainchild to the wolves. FireWire is much better hardware, and it isn't like it lost any format wars, almost every computer has it now even in the Windoze world, so why shun FireWire on the iPod like a black sheep?? Just to squeeze those few pennies out I guess.. (laments Apple forgoing an all-out best of all worlds design when they charge an all-out best design price. Sniff!) 😱
Oh Snap! I just saw the black onyx colored Nano.. This is the iPod that should have always been. I can't stand it! I'm giving into Apple retail store impulse spending pressure.. No.. stop.. don't.. arggghh.. my money! Oh.. wow.. Neeeeice! heh. Can't wait to feel this one in my hand.. then again, it's so light, it'll be almost like it aint there at all. No more drive spin up delays or seek access-time pauses between skipping through songs will be new for sure.. I bet it burns quite fast on file transfers. Too bad it isn't FireWire.. Not that it will really break the camel's back on a 2GB or 4GB max model, but those seconds do add up when you use it as an external drive. I am so sick of Apple putting out new iPods that only use UselesSB 2. When is Apple gonna help out the high-end "Pod people" who buy and use all 20-60 whopping gigabytes of the top tier models and bring FireWire back out of the closet with a much faster, more reliably powered FireWire800-equipped iPod with a touchscreen? Eh, I'm a dreamer, but hey, with Apple, you just never know. Steve has a habit of making eDreams come true. It really is too bad it seems they have all but abandoned their own brainchild to the wolves. FireWire is much better hardware, and it isn't like it lost any format wars, almost every computer has it now even in the Windoze world, so why shun FireWire on the iPod like a black sheep?? Just to squeeze those few pennies out I guess.. (laments Apple forgoing an all-out best of all worlds design when they charge an all-out best design price. Sniff!) 😱
Plymouthbreezer
macrumors 601
Like other handheld devices, iPods now face the tradeoff between the convenience of smaller and smaller sizes, but with the associated small viewing areas.
If any size and form factor was technically possible to manufacture, just how small would we want an iPod with a screen to be?
Crude mock-up to illustrate the issue:
If any size and form factor was technically possible to manufacture, just how small would we want an iPod with a screen to be?
Crude mock-up to illustrate the issue:
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First words out of my mouth: HOYL S***!!!
It's beautiful, but, alas, I already have a 30GB and a Shuffle, so no Nano for me right now. 😎
It's beautiful, but, alas, I already have a 30GB and a Shuffle, so no Nano for me right now. 😎
Piarco
macrumors 68030
Despite knowing that Apple were buying all of Samsungs flash memory I didn't see this coming - I was all ready for an evening of disapppointment with that POS Moto phone...... but then King Steve does it again!!!!
My Shuffle and accessories will be on their way out tomorrow - I've just ordered the 2GB Nano 😀. Couldn't justify the 4gigger as I have a 60gigger, but the 2Gb gives me a better shuffle alternative with a screen....
Just hope it gets here before Friday!
My Shuffle and accessories will be on their way out tomorrow - I've just ordered the 2GB Nano 😀. Couldn't justify the 4gigger as I have a 60gigger, but the 2Gb gives me a better shuffle alternative with a screen....
Just hope it gets here before Friday!
broken_keyboard said:
Don't forget that Betacam, the professional verision of Betamax became the industry standard for broadcast quality and remained unchalleged for almost two decades. Betamax was also a higher quality format than VHS but people were too cheap to care. It reminds me of why Windows is so prolific in the face of Mac.
Don't panic
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robinmurphy
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Yesterday I could have got a 4GB ipod for £139.
Today I would only get half the GB's for that much and have to spend another £40 if I wanted 4GB.
6GB Mini was a step up, have Apple gone backwards?
Today I would only get half the GB's for that much and have to spend another £40 if I wanted 4GB.
6GB Mini was a step up, have Apple gone backwards?
video
hey
anyone know if apple is gonna release a video of today's event like they normally do?
hey
anyone know if apple is gonna release a video of today's event like they normally do?
rockthecasbah
macrumors 68020
at first it looks stunning, but the more i look at the nano, the less i like it. Sure it's awesome to be that thin but it's too enlongated for my taste. The screen could be a little lower, and that nubby thing below the wheel looks silly. It reminds me of an airhead taffy thing with a screen... 🙁
update: just looked at the black one, the wheel looks completely weird...i guess im not sold on the nano thing..Though i may think differently when i see one in person.
update: just looked at the black one, the wheel looks completely weird...i guess im not sold on the nano thing..Though i may think differently when i see one in person.
As a recent iPod mini user, I must tell you that I'm overwhelmingly happy with my 4 Gb HD mini. iPod nano looks... well.. artifical and too sleek and "unhip" if you ppl bear with me. Old iPod mini was much better and meaner than this "nano".
But that's just my opinion.
But that's just my opinion.
wPod
macrumors 68000
looks awsome!!! go apple designers!!! beats the anything out of the motorola phone!!! kinda surprised they went away from the iPod mini look. but i guess its the shinny white plastic that sells! (and maybe black too! heh) maybe they are saving the aluminum look for a powerpod!!! heh
broken_keyboard said:
Dear god nooooooooooo!
Although I suppose it might mean I can de-metalize all my apps at once instead of having to run another app for Mail to get rid of the hideous buttons.
If only there was an app to give iTunes a pull out drawer like Mail had up until Tiger.
Please Apple, the metal look is getting tired and doesn't match your clean hardware design.
Just a note: If you go to http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/ it redirects you to the page at the Apple Store where you can buy a mini. I'm guessing this will be doable until they run out of stock. Prices on those remian the same.
