So why don't you just get an unlocked iPhone (5 and 5c's can be found pretty cheap on eBay) and drop the cheap prepaid SIM card into it? No monthly fee there either.
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Apple Launches New 16GB iPod Touch for $199, Drops 32/64GB Models to $249/$299
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So why don't you just get an unlocked iPhone (5 and 5c's can be found pretty cheap on eBay) and drop the cheap prepaid SIM card into it? No monthly fee there either.
Would be seriously cool on the Mac lineup.
Say, going from a 512GB SSD to a 1TB for $50.
Yes, that was a bad theory on my part. I'm now wondering if it is a summer promotion in North America and Europe only, since none of the Asia/Pacific stores I've checked so far are showing a price change (NZ, Australia and Hong Kong; Japan is more expensive than the original launch price).
End of THIS year? Highly unlikely. The iPod Touch will still be sold with the A5 until it can no longer support the most recent iOS. Since it's listed as one that supports iOS8 it has at very very least another year but I predict 2 and then they'll move onto a new line.
They're better off focusing on making a high margin iWatch/iPod Nano with better features or some sort of hybrid of the two devices.
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Would be seriously cool on the Mac lineup.
Say, going from a 512GB SSD to a 1TB for $50.
Hell... I'd pay the full $100 to go from 512gb to 1tb
I've always dug on the iPT, especially in the current day where so many WiFi communication channels are available (Msg, Skype, Hangouts, etc.).
An outright purchase for $199, no recurring fees for using it, great display and camera, super portable. I’ve recommended them to friends several times, even over an iPad mini for kids.
Yeah, I’d be willing to bet the same, and that we’ll see an A6 version released at the iPhone event this year. No supporting evidence, just a total guess
An outright purchase for $199, no recurring fees for using it, great display and camera, super portable. I’ve recommended them to friends several times, even over an iPad mini for kids.
Yeah, I’d be willing to bet the same, and that we’ll see an A6 version released at the iPhone event this year.
No supporting evidence, just a total guess 
So apple should keep a product line running cause someone is using their devices as barcode scanners.... And god forbid that android capture this market?? I doubt apple will battle this one out...
Thanks. I already checked but didn't see a press release, now it has appeared for me (on the US site). The joys of slow updates of content to distributed web servers. Without that clue, it looked like a change only in some regions. More patience needed.
Highly doubt it. How long was the iPad 2 around for , iPhone 4 still on sale, and I highly doubt a new touch is coming. Only the latest and greatest will move to A6.
Yes, I suspect we'll get new iPod touch this fall. And then the A5 version will be gone. Maybe this 5.5" rumored device will be a new iPod touch geared towards gaming. Metal was announced for a reason. And I think that reason will become clear this fall.
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Latest and greatest what will move to A6?
Not to me it isn't! And at 100,000,000 cumulative sales over 6 years (as of May 2013) I'd hasten to say it's not dead for a lot of others too.
I love iOS but I don't want to pay through the nose for an iPhone.
Has anyone ever used the loop? Seems like 99% would just get thrown in the trash to me.
Traditionally Apple has only lowered the price of the iOS devices when a new product is released or if they decide to just drop the price... never a price drop and then a product release a few months later. They want to sell the iPod Touch at the highest profit margin until the next one is released and then drop.
This fact alone (or opinion if you choose not to believe me) disproves that there will not be a new iPod this year. IF (a very big if) they do plan to release a new iPod (and I doubt they will) it will be in, at very very soonest, a year's time with the A7 to make them all 64 bit. But that would have to be dependent on if they plan to make iOS9 64 bit only, iOS8 will run on both 32 and 64 bit processors.
Apple obviously believes that the iPod Touch is a dead product line as well, or they would have updated the iPods with an A7 processor but they chose not too. A great many people love the iPod Touch, and many may still benefit, but Apple would rather have people buy an iPad or iPhone.
What are you talking about? It is the best selling MP3 player on the planet. You might not give a **** but many other people do.
Didn't Apple make a minor update to the MBP before the rMBP was introduced at WWDC? Anyway I can't see Apple going two years with basically nothing new in iPod land. Unless they're planing to replace the touch with something new. There are lots of things Apple is doing now that they haven't done in the past. 5C was a break from what Apple had done in the past. I think anything is possible under Apple 3.0.
Nice price on the 16gb. Think I know what I might get my niece and nephew this year for Christmas.
Nice same day rumor and conformation also!
Think I know what I might get my niece and nephew this year for Christmas. Nice same day rumor and conformation also!
Very cheap wall mounted home automation screen
Or I could just use my phone which is almost always in my pocket. That will also keep kids from jacking with it, and in iOS 8 I can tell Siri to control it.
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So no iPod Touch updates this autumn, or are they trying to sell off the rest of their stock? The problem I have with the iPod Touch hardware is that it uses the A5, which came out in 2011. Why does that matter, you ask? Because game developers are still very likely to support it, which means that many will focus on lowest common denominator hardware and not push iOS game graphics to the limit. In some games you can just dial back the effects but certain types of games, like larger open-world games, just aren't possible with less memory. And some developers leave out more complex physics engines altogether because having it on one device and not on another can affect game play.