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Apple Launches New iPod Touch With A10 Fusion Chip and Up to 256GB Storage, Priced From $199
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Said every time Apple updates the iPod.Safe to say this is probably the last iPod touch update we’ll ever see
Kids quickly learn to use a second social media account anyway. They know that most (smart) parents monitor their social media accounts... So they create other stealth accounts they share with friends only. They will still put up occasional token content in their normal account. Kids be crafty.
Although I’m a fan of the iPod Touch, I find it simply staggering it’s taken Apple FOUR YEARS to simply change the SOC in it! And then I think over charge for that...
Staggering the tightness of Apple sometimes.. all for maximum $$$ and never about the customer.
Staggering the tightness of Apple sometimes.. all for maximum $$$ and never about the customer.
Will be interested to see if the new iPod Touch has 2GB RAM to go with the A10, up from the 1GB/A8 of the previous version. The performance increase could be even higher with not having to reload apps when they have been switched away from.
Looks like a pretty solid upgrade from here, still keeping the previous price points for the media player/gym player/pre-IPhone kids crowd. My 12yo son used his previous gen iPod Touch daily prior to getting his first iPhone (an SE) last Christmas. As far as I can tell, Apple have the pre-smartphone market to themselves, and an established iPod Touch user is more likely to become an iPhone user - especially if parents/guardians are themselves in the iOS ecosystem with family sharing, parental controls, App Store/iTunes purchases & subscriptions.
Looks like a pretty solid upgrade from here, still keeping the previous price points for the media player/gym player/pre-IPhone kids crowd. My 12yo son used his previous gen iPod Touch daily prior to getting his first iPhone (an SE) last Christmas. As far as I can tell, Apple have the pre-smartphone market to themselves, and an established iPod Touch user is more likely to become an iPhone user - especially if parents/guardians are themselves in the iOS ecosystem with family sharing, parental controls, App Store/iTunes purchases & subscriptions.
Its amount of DRAM will determine whether it becomes a BIG success or not.
"If" AAPL was wise enough to put 3 GB into it, then its Performance will be on-par with the 7+, 8+, XS, & XS Max, AAPL's four highest-performance iPhones, & it will ultimately become a BIG hit.
If ONLY 2 GB, then it will act like the 7, 8, X, & XR, when pushed hard by High Performance apps, & do NO better than the touch 6.
From looking @ the webpages on the apple website, everything looks impressive, so "the amount of DRAM" is key !
"If" AAPL was wise enough to put 3 GB into it, then its Performance will be on-par with the 7+, 8+, XS, & XS Max, AAPL's four highest-performance iPhones, & it will ultimately become a BIG hit.
If ONLY 2 GB, then it will act like the 7, 8, X, & XR, when pushed hard by High Performance apps, & do NO better than the touch 6.
From looking @ the webpages on the apple website, everything looks impressive, so "the amount of DRAM" is key !
It probably costs them $10 to make each one! Four year old design and screen, a SOC that’s three years old! The rest costs peanuts. Apple will be making massive profit in this device, should have been $99 or at most $150.
Hardly an “update”, same design as 2012. Kids are better off with a used 7.
Yep, get an Android phone with better specs, better camera, better screen, better everything and also be able to make phone calls. Don’t want your kids to make phone calls? Remove the sim.
I sometimes wonder if Apple knows what the competition has to offer. If they’re aware it’s even more embarrassing.
Also they blame lower iPhone sales in China due to the trade war... can’t it be that Chinese people realize they can get so much better for lower pricing from other vendors?
Hopefully you are able to understand that a redesign is not the only way to update a product. Furthermore a redesign of an aging product past it's marketable prime is most likely not going to happen. Too many people on this site are incapable of basic reasoning.
This has to be one of - if not THE laziest (and overpriced) update to an I device I have ever seen.
C'mon Apple!!
C'mon Apple!!
For me personally, as a travel photog, i am not gonna upgrade my ipod touch 5. I definitely would have if Apple had upgraded the camera. But since they didn’t, i will pass. For someone’s grandson however, i think it’d make a great gift.
It’s certainly not the only way to update a product, but it’s not that hard to tell when Apple has stopped caring about a product line.
Unless you think Apple is going to keep updating the iPod touch with the same design and only a new chip every couple of years. I don’t buy that.
Even the iPad mini got more love with the P3 color gamut upgrade and more recent A-chip.
This is actually excellent news for those of us with enterprise client bases who rely on these devices to power scanners, readers and other peripherals in the workplace. While Apple will be happy to sell these devices to your kids to use as music players, I'd guess they are actually aimed at keeping existing corporate clients -- many of whom have been snapping up refurbished 5th- and 6th gen models for years now -- happy.
Any company that has invested in form-factor-specific IR scanner sleds, credit card readers, etc., can finally breathe a huge sigh of relief, knowing they've still got a long-term supplier of iPod Touches that fit the existing infrastructure they've been building since the 5th-gen model was introduced in 2012. I remember the switch from the 4th-gen to 5th gen, and the thought of trying to coordinate such a migration at our clients' existing scale has been a driving force in deciding how to continue to meet existing needs. This allows us to take a breath for a few months, at least.
So many complaints but I'd be perfectly happy if Apple bumped my IPhone SE to 256GB and A10 chip and left everything else as-is.
iPads are available with cellular too. The iPod Touch is more like a smaller iPad than it is a cheaper iPhone.
I did pick up on that too, and I was also confused as to how the XR is taxed by a big app? Considering it has the exact same SOC as the XS just 1GB less ram.
That’s why it’s a bonus release. You didn’t see Timmy saying Timmy things about it, did you?
Yep definitely weird to say the 8+ and especially the 7+ will handle an app better than the XR... as far as I'm aware the only Apps with significant enough RAM usage for this to even be a consideration is stuff like procreate (and then with a big canvas and a lot of layers) on the iPad.
It’d be interesting to see the revenue generated from devices like this. The only market I see them in is for children. However, most of the children I know use iPads, or some form or tablet, to consume media.
I can’t see the iPod staying around much longer!
It’s way too cheap, but still is a solid iPod touch for most people. For 200, an iPod nano would be reasonable, a touch? No way. iPod touch should start at 329 for 16G, 379 for 32G, 399 for 64G, 449 for 128Gand go up to 549 for a 256G