Why though? Why kill it?
The device is still making Apple Money. In fact at this point, they have got to be dirt cheap to produce, and the R&D is long since paid off. So Apple is probably making more on those devices than they are on iPod Touch's. It's not as if it overlaps with over products. It's a unique device that Apple is still selling.
I'm really puzzled why everything thinks Apple will kill it
Because its a old technology. The scroll wheel while we all know and love it and it was a big move forward, theres a better technology, there's wifi connectivity. Theres stores, theres apps, theres a lot that the iPod just cannot do without a huge revamp, and that revamp is already here, its called the iPod Touch. Apple is notorious for wanting to throw away old technology and create new standards, this would one one of their moves. The last 10 years the iPod has certinatly stood out for our generation as a symbol of our lives, some say thats a bit much, but I think that familure white box with the scroll wheel is forever engrained in our minds, its music, its connectivity and freedom.
Now why, in the beginning of the new decade would I want to be slowed down? I can't just hop on itunes like on my touch or iphone and download something, I gotta go to my mac, I gotta get on itunes, download it, connect my iPod, transfer then go. The iPhone has its own symbology, its represents the newest technology, and connectivity between people, its a actual PERSONAL computer. We live our lives around it, we get entertained by it, soothed by it, iPhone 4 I could tell a dying relative goodbye face to face. I share more of Woz's idea of technology and the good it could do for us and how much technology is a part of our nature as honey is to a bee. Its just a different kind of nature.
Okay, way off course there, lol.
iPod has had a great run, and now the younger generation must take its place, like the Macheads before me, and those after me.
