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Apple Launches A8-Based iPod Touch With 8MP Camera, Adds New Nano and Shuffle Colors
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Let me tell you, that read camera and flash looks way way better than the one on the iPhone 6. Way better. Its almost beautiful as the iPhone 5 Camera/Flash.
And that iPod Nano iOS 6 thingy, its that easy to change a great design on a non iOS OS.
And that iPod Nano iOS 6 thingy, its that easy to change a great design on a non iOS OS.
Nice! I am definitely buying the Gold colour iPod Touch. Can anyone estimate when the new iPod Touches are coming to stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy?
Yes. But Apple's product strategy has been getting really weird. A5 iPad Mini and A6X iPad 4th gen, then jump up to the A7 but have the iPad Air use the same A7 chip, then keep the Mini on the A7 for another year but release this tri-core 2GB RAM A8X beast for the Air 2, and now we have an iPod Touch jump from an A5 to an A8 that matches the speed of their flagship smartphone but for less than a third of the price. What? It's just really hard to follow.
Perhaps A8 is their next long-haul chip like the A5 was. Think about the iPad 2 that hung on forever with an A5 and the Apple TV 3 still uses the A5. This pretty much confirms for me that we're going to see the Apple TV 4 at this autumn as they're clearly winding down A5 production. The iPod Touch, Apple TV 4, iPhone 6C and iPad Mini 4 will use the A8. The iPhone 6S/Plus and iPad Air 3 will use the A9 at different clocks, and the iPad Pro will use the A9X. I think that makes the most sense from a consumer standpoint and production standpoint. Keep the Mini processor a year behind to preserve margins on the cheaper product with lower sales, keep the iPhone and iPad on a similar chip to reduce production cost for that, and make the X-series truly for professional applications. Go from tri-core to a quad-core, give it more video cores to handle the higher-resolution screen, and bump up the RAM. Although that brings up the biggest kink in my idea, which is that I'm not sure if the iPhone battery could handle a tri-core A9—and it would be kinda weird if they went from tri-core down to dual-core for the next iPad. People would lose their minds lol.
EarPods are actually £25 so consider yourself even more justified!
iTunes 12.2 and OS X v10.7.5 or later required, a big jump from last generation that allowed iTunes 10 and OS X v 10.5
I don't claim to know exactly what their system is but it doesn't seem overly complicated to me.
approx processor bump rate:
flagship phones and tablets - 1yr
secondary tablets (mini and maybe plus?) - 2yrs
tertiary products (iPod, ATV) - 3/4yrs
Speak for yourself. As a dev these are great for testing.
Reckon that the internals will be detuned a bit from the A8 in the Iphone 6... slower RAM and slower clock ... but tbh the A8 is overkill so I am hoping that it will be proper snappy. 1Gb will be fine for the next 2 releases ( IOS 9 and 10 )... if it is skimped down to 512k RAM then I think Apple will get a lot of returns.
Yes, I agree that the A8 is their next long-haul chip (much like the A5). It makes sense if you think about it. The 2nd generation Apple TV had an A4, so did the iPod touch 4th generation. The 3rd generation Apple TV had an A5, so did the iPod touch 5th generation. And now the iPod touch 6th generation has an A8 chip, and so will the Apple TV 4th generation (most likely).
Apple looks at things with a longer lense. Imagine a parent has a child and it is time to give them a phone. I know from my own and those of my sister's, you don't buy them the top of the line iPhone. You either give them a spare/old phone you have laying around or you buy them a cheap phone. Here it would make sense to buy a iPod that had phone over wifi capabilities for three reasons -
1. Apple can market this as a cheap alternative that does not require any additional cost for the telcos and there are no minute restrictions to worry about.
2. Because it is wifi, Apple can market it as safer since they can't use it everywhere like when they start driving.
3. Because they get sales earlier in the life, they can build up more loyal fanboys, before they jump on the Android bandwagon.
How many people would downgrade from an iphone to an ipod? Some, but i don't think it would be enough to prevent Apple from moving on this.
My guess is the added thickness is due to the added cellular/GPS radios on the logic board, along with the battery capacity necessary to power them.
That's not even the worst part. Look at MacRumor's buyers guide: they're labeled "Buy now - Just updated". It's bad but comprehensible for a Company to lie about its' product. For MacRumors it's just shameful.Are you serious? ALL they did was add new colors to the Nano and call it “NEW?” And it's STILL $149 according to Apple's site.
Although, now, for the first time ever, the most "current" model of iPad mini now has the lowest/oldest processor out of all "current" models of iOS devices. Previously, at worst, the iPad mini had the SAME CPU as the most recent model iPod touch. Now, for the first (and probably not last time) the iPad mini has a slower processor in addition to a weaker color gamut (which is better on literally every other iOS device out there). Anyone else think that this might be telling for the future of the iPad mini?
Really a fan of that "Space Gray"! It's not even Space Gray, it's Space Black. I'm thinking the 6S and next iPads will adopt this color. Maybe the 6S will adopt all 5 colors?? That pink is a bit flashy for a high end smartphone in my honest opinion (seems gaudy and Samsungish) but to each their own I guess. I'm not going to judge.
Sure.
I question the sanity of those who buy the pink or blue iPods, but each to his own. I'm not going to judge either.
might be. the Mini product line has always been sort of a ... Red headed stepchild.
first, Apple claimed that anything under 10" was just crap.
Then, they chased the market of sub 10" tablets, with a half decent first attempt. But not a complete attempt. (low res version)
then, they bumped the resolution suddenly and quickly, kind of angering a bunch of people who bought the first one.
Then they released a 3rd one, Identical to the 2nd one, but with TouchID and charged a LOT more, but had very little else going forit.
it REEKS as a "me too" product and not a real Apple product with time and effort going into it's design.
