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Apple Launches A8-Based iPod Touch With 8MP Camera, Adds New Nano and Shuffle Colors

Seems too little, too late to me. The market for a device for music, games and photos/videos, that cannot be used for an emergency phone call or text seems awfully small to me (and iPod sales declines back me up).

I see a lot of pre-teens carrying phones these days and very few are iPhones. This seems odd because a lot of their parents have iPhones and you'd think kids that age would get a hand-me-down phone rather than a new one. Perhaps the parents have given in to the thinking that a phone needs to be "new" and have thus equipped them with inexpensive Android devices. The danger for Apple is that a child who gets introduced to Android and acquires a library of games from Google Play is unlikely to ever switch to iPhone.
 
oldmacs said:
YES me as well. I'm thinking of keeping my 5 to forward texts and be a hotspot for one of these (when the 5 no longer supports the latest version of iOS).
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Actually, I just noticed that the iPod touch doesn't have Touch ID... I think Apple is onto us, potential iPod touch switchers.
 
Dagless said:
Not showing up on the site for me. Macrumors operating from the future: CONFIRMED.
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I see these posts every time the store comes back up after a product release. Sometimes it takes a few minutes for the new pages to propagate through all of the various servers Apple employs. I always suggest using the Apple Store App on iOS. While you were making this post, I was already checking out with a new 128 gb touch.

EDIT: I'm also sure that it is hampered by all of the people who are hammering the servers refreshing for the page to come up, and a sudden influx of folks to the new pages as soon as it loads for them. That spike in traffic can slow just about any business regardless of size.
 
a0me said:
Actually, I just noticed that the iPod touch doesn't have Touch ID... I think Apple is onto us, potential iPod touch switchers.
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Hmm yeah :/ I don't mind the lack of touch ID to be honest, however the 5S benchmarks around the same as the new touch, so its becoming less appealing... I do suppose the Touch will get longer support than the 5S though.
 
No touch id
no apple pay
no improve resolution
nothing special

i hope iphone 6S not like this

apple make billion money a years- where all those money they using for - time to upgrade real upgrade

thank you-
 
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Bregalad said:
I see a lot of pre-teens carrying phones these days and very few are iPhones. This seems odd because a lot of their parents have iPhones and you'd think kids that age would get a hand-me-down phone rather than a new one. Perhaps the parents have given in to the thinking that a phone needs to be "new" and have thus equipped them with inexpensive Android devices. The danger for Apple is that a child who gets introduced to Android and acquires a library of games from Google Play is unlikely to ever switch to iPhone.
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I see the exact opposite. I teach elementary school and this year my sixth graders almost all had iPhones. Most were 4,4s, or 5 hand me downs but some had the 5s or 5c as well. One student had an android phone and one had a flip phone and a couple had iPod touches. The rest all had iPhones.
 
I think some of the big markets for these are in developing countries. From Apple's quote: "iPod touch gives customers around the world access to[...]"

I'm sure a lot of us are located in the US where every kid has an iPhone at 5 years old, but there are a lot of places where that just isn't the case. There is most certainly still a market for the iPod Touch, it's just for the most part not for the same folks who already have the latest and greatest iPhone.
 
metal frame change to plastic
2 color change to 6 colors
3.5 inch change to 5.5 inch
more change in 2015-16 coming ,,,,,

think difficult :)
 
LizKat said:
Not a bad deal at all for some people. If you have a huge library of music there's nothing out there you could put everything on anyway. Some of us don't mind refreshing the collection once in awhile. I keep some old favorites and some newer acquisitions on my mobile devices and switch them up periodically. Streaming cuts down on storage for more users now, too. Finally, its price almost certainly attracts some consumers who couldn't or wouldn't otherwise go for it.

If the 16GB configuration didn't sell at all, it wouldn't be for sale. And if you don't think the lowly iPod shuffle over the years hasn't served as the equivalent of a gateway drug, wake up! These things are pint-size, compared to the rest of their respective product lines, but they deliver the goods and they plant the brand.
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It sells because it's the cheapest it has nothing to do with the size.

And you can't honestly say it's okay to easily fill up your storage on a iPod or iPhone with like 100 pictures. It's 2015... 16gb was so... 2010
 
Compared to the rest of Apple's line-up, the iPod Nano is a horrible looking product. Plus its software looks all iOS-6 like. Don't get it.
 
super tomtendo said:
It sells because it's the cheapest it has nothing to do with the size.

And you can't honestly say it's okay to easily fill up your storage on a iPod or iPhone with like 100 pictures. It's 2015... 16gb was so... 2010
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Umm. I can honestly say it's okay to fill up one's storage on a mobile device with whatever is desired. This is 2015, just another year in the history of discovering how many things one can do with small computing devices. The cloud and streaming both make a big difference in how a lot of people look at storage requirements these days.

As far as photos go, I don't keep many on my iPhone past whatever I shot most recently. Generally I unload them to a laptop, back them up and then delete them from the iPhone.

I'd much rather have a few movies and a couple hundred tracks of music on the phone rather than a zillion photos. But that's probably because a lot of my photos are of fabrics and have no earthly purpose short of going into assorted quilting-project folders that live on my laptop.

When it ocmes to the larger iPad though, I'm not happy with small storage. I like to keep back issues of magazines along with lots of movies, video podcasts, TV shows and some apps that have sizeable chunks of data.

With the smaller mobiles like an iPod touch, I'm more than content with 32GB now, and can even see getting my next iPhone with only 16GB. Traveling light gets easier with the option to let purchases live in the cloud until wanted locally.
 
ipadpro said:
No touch id
no apple pay
no improve resolution
nothing special

i hope iphone 6S not like this

apple make billion money a years- where all those money they using for - time to upgrade real upgrade

thank you-
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If the rumors are right, the 6s should be a more significant 's' model upgrade than the 5s was. In other words, the 6s will be the 7th generation iPod touch Apple releases 2-3 years from now.
 
When the heck is this scheduled to appear at other stores? Like at Target or Best Buy?
 
Benjamin Frost said:
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.
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JAT said:
I'll tell you the same thing I tell my kids: Females exist.
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those blue ones are sweet.. i buy all sorts of blue crap.. shoes, tools, wheels..

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i'll get a blue iphone too if apple makes one. :)

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