Agreed... everyone is going on and on about tactile feedback. Just get the apple remote attachment for your headphones and you have all the tactile feedback you need!
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iPod Click wheel vs. touch screen
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Agreed... everyone is going on and on about tactile feedback. Just get the apple remote attachment for your headphones and you have all the tactile feedback you need!
Multi-sided Widescreen Touch iPod
If you will go to the article archive here on MacRumors and bring up the month of May, you will see for May 10th a patent release that Apple is working on for a multi (that is, two) sided widescreen (looks like 'Scope 2.40/1) iPod that can have TACTILE areas on the backside (including a tactile click wheel)....This, if ever released, should solve all the problems you're all speaking of....sort of a universal solution. Let's hope it's coming soon....
If you will go to the article archive here on MacRumors and bring up the month of May, you will see for May 10th a patent release that Apple is working on for a multi (that is, two) sided widescreen (looks like 'Scope 2.40/1) iPod that can have TACTILE areas on the backside (including a tactile click wheel)....This, if ever released, should solve all the problems you're all speaking of....sort of a universal solution. Let's hope it's coming soon....
Multi-Sided Widescreen Touch iPod
In reference to the above, a more complete version of this story is found on Appleinsider (same date). Among other things it talks about the actual control etchings on the backside such as a click wheel....
In reference to the above, a more complete version of this story is found on Appleinsider (same date). Among other things it talks about the actual control etchings on the backside such as a click wheel....
I would like to see the Touch screen and click wheel in future 'Pods. But not on the same model.
What I would hope Apple would do for the 6G (Full Sized iPod replacement) Would be a click wheel based design slightly revamped with maybe Brushed Alum. to match the New (supposedly brushed metal) iMacs and the Mac Pro. With the same basic design as the 5G with some enhancements.(maybe bluetooth for wireless headphones, POSSIBLY wifi for wireless syncing and such...but I'd expect bluetooth before wifi on a click-wheel based iPod)
For the Touch screen design...
A whole new iPod. Loaded. Internet, OS X, ect ect. But more expensive. As in not a replacement for the 5G. Maybe 399, 499? (30GB,80GB+)
I could see myself replacing my 5G with a touch screen pod for 399.
What I would hope Apple would do for the 6G (Full Sized iPod replacement) Would be a click wheel based design slightly revamped with maybe Brushed Alum. to match the New (supposedly brushed metal) iMacs and the Mac Pro. With the same basic design as the 5G with some enhancements.(maybe bluetooth for wireless headphones, POSSIBLY wifi for wireless syncing and such...but I'd expect bluetooth before wifi on a click-wheel based iPod)
For the Touch screen design...
A whole new iPod. Loaded. Internet, OS X, ect ect. But more expensive. As in not a replacement for the 5G. Maybe 399, 499? (30GB,80GB+)
I could see myself replacing my 5G with a touch screen pod for 399.