Apple Splitting iPod Touch Lineup Between Current and New Designs, Increasing Color Options for iPod Shuffle and New Nano?

[iEvolution]

Apple:

Please kill the iPod Classic with a hard drive & kill the Shuffle too.

Just have the iPod NANO as the intro - econo - sports POD model & have the iPOD Touch as the higher end POD without a phone.

This follows the usual Papa Bear / Mama Bear / Baby Bear lines that you usually have in your other products:

iPhone / iPod Touch / iPod Nano.

Simplify.

...and have the entire line have no physical navigation? No thanks.

If the classic is dropped, there are no capacity updates for the fourth year I will have no choice but to switch to a sansa and add a large sd card.

Killing the classic is just silly especially since it has only gotten cheaper to manufacture and yet its sold at the same price and is still the only device to offer over 64gb of space.

The only one that is the odd one out is the shuffle since the nano is so similiar, plus 50 bucks for a 2gb screen-less player in this day and age is just silly. Upgrade the capacity or drop the price.

In fact look at the top ipod sales at amazon right now, classic in both colors are ahead of the shuffle and nano despite having nearly no updates for five years.
Top iPod Sales
Only thing I want to see is:
- capacity updates (4gb for shuffle, 240gb classic, 32gb nano and 128gb touch)
- battery improvements (32hr for nano, at least 10hr on the touch with heavy apps)
- 4" screen, A5, 512mb updates to ipod touch, the a4 and 256mb just isnt going to cut it for another year

If I could only have one of these it would def be capacity updates, sick of the same capacities for 3 years.

 

[mattburley7]

I hope the ipod touch at least gets 4" screen and 512mb of ram. what are the chances of this actually happening? pretty good?

 

[Virinprew]

Just like the iPad 1 wasn't gonna be under $999... Right? Haha

Just like Retina MacBook start at $2199 haha.

 

[monaarts]

Just like Retina MacBook start at $2199 haha.

That's completely irrelivent to this discussion.

 

[bikertwin]

The current nano basically has a feature set closer to the shuffle... can't play movies, optimized for "active" life styles, limited storage etc.
The touch on it is pretty limited, and IMHO was a step down from the previous generation's nano ( no more movies, smaller screen etc )

It would seem to me that bringing back the candybar nano as has been rumored is a very logical step, but the current nano is nice... why not keep it aive but making it the new shuffle?

This makes the most sense. Ditch the shuffle, make the nano thinner (so it's a better watch) and make it replace the shuffle. Introduce an iPod touch mini. Then introduce a 4" iPod touch at $199.

But I can't see higher end iPod touches at $299 and $399. Apple wants you in the cloud, not on higher capacity devices.

The iPad mini will be at $249/299 price points. iPad 2 continues at $399, maybe with 3G built in. New iPad continues at $499 with a cheaper 4G option ($129 is too much, and AT&T and Verizon probably aren't getting the sales they want).

 

[Sequin]

lbr I only care about the classic. Touch is overpriced and useless if you have the iPhone.

 

[Wolfpup]

Thank GOODNESS they're maybe FINALLY updating the iPods. The touch 4 was outdated when it launched TWO YEARS AGO let alone now, and the nano is unreliable in my experience (though sort of a neat design if not for that.

I've got a semi-dead nano and touch I'm limping along with, and am soooooo glad maybe tomorrow I can order something better, not have to buy the same thing again.

Actually of their current lineup, I like the classic best, though I keep thinking a classic with a bigger screen + flash or something would be great....