Especially when you can get a refurbished '16 SE for half the price, get around the same performance, use Touch ID, and even, you know, make calls.
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Current iPod Touch Now 1,000 Days Old With No Sign of New Model
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It’s way too small for children ??
Kids always go for the bigger sizes.
Kids always go for the bigger sizes.
All those saying “most kids have an iPhone now anyways” like it’s a good thing.
Jobs knew the value of gateway products and quite happily sold a £40 iPod Shuffle alongside his £2k G4 Tower.
Apple should resurrect the iPod brand. Relaunch the Touch with a starting price of £99 with the current spec and then bring out a new iPod Classic with a 1Tb SSD, bluetooth, updated UI (and maybe throw in remastered versions of Song Summoner, Musika and Phase).
Sony do a great line of Walkman devices for people want lossless audio. Apple should release a collectable iPod reboot to follow suit.
Apple should resurrect the iPod brand. Relaunch the Touch with a starting price of £99 with the current spec and then bring out a new iPod Classic with a 1Tb SSD, bluetooth, updated UI (and maybe throw in remastered versions of Song Summoner, Musika and Phase).
Sony do a great line of Walkman devices for people want lossless audio. Apple should release a collectable iPod reboot to follow suit.
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Those thousand days are numbered with the release of Stem Player.
Joke aside, when I worked in Apple Sales for a short time, parents wanted the iPod for their kids without WiFi. Well not all, but that was a common request. You can get on the Internet as easily with an iPod touch as an iPhone, so I'm not sure that it has a compelling reason to exist for that market except that it's cheaper. And you can get a better Android phone for that price if you're interested in a larger display for games, etc.
In short, I'm not really for whom the iPod touch is for. I honestly think an iPod shuffle would be more compelling.
Joke aside, when I worked in Apple Sales for a short time, parents wanted the iPod for their kids without WiFi. Well not all, but that was a common request. You can get on the Internet as easily with an iPod touch as an iPhone, so I'm not sure that it has a compelling reason to exist for that market except that it's cheaper. And you can get a better Android phone for that price if you're interested in a larger display for games, etc.
In short, I'm not really for whom the iPod touch is for. I honestly think an iPod shuffle would be more compelling.
Can't imagine carrying another device in another pocket just to listen music... What's more iPod was made in the time when we all have downloaded our music, now we all are streaming it...
You lost me at “banking apps” for these kids young enough to not need a phone but apparently they’re old enough to manage their checking and savings portfolios
For me, the greatest deficiencies with the current iPod Touch are, poor battery life and the heavy reliance on... touch. I know that I'm in the minority, but I'd like to see an iPod Touch that had more physical buttons and a slider-switch to disable/enable the touch screen.
That obviously won't happen and that's why I have an iPod Classic 5.5, Zune 30, and a few iPod Nanos.
That obviously won't happen and that's why I have an iPod Classic 5.5, Zune 30, and a few iPod Nanos.
There might be a small market for an improved iPod with 0.5 TB or 1 TB of storage space for those that have large collections of music, particularly for those who listen to genres of music that are not well represented in Apple Music's collection. At present, there aren't many audiophile grade music player options on the market (Sony, Astell Kern, Fiio) and these are generally price well over $1,000 and lack Apple's intuitive interface. Granted, this would be a very niche market, but I'd buy one.
Apple should come out with a 'Last iPod Commemorative Edition' with a 5Tb capacity, and an artistic profile of steve jobs on the back. Add a micro-HDMI port, and keep the 3.5mm headphone socket too. Give it a slightly larger retina display, and make it The Ultimate Portable Content Storage/Delivery System EVER!
They could/would sell millions of them.
They could/would sell millions of them.
Hiding a music player within an iPhone-looking iPod adds everything else you need at the sacrifice of a focused, efficient music player. Like adding a snow shovel to a Swiss army pocketknife.
The only improvement they could make to a music player is to simplify it back similar to the Classic hardware, to have physical controls for volume, movement and be more focused for simply playing music. Nobody loves touchscreen volume controls in cars, and I hate using my iPhone to control Music selections. Then part of the issue could be the horrific Music app.
The only improvement they could make to a music player is to simplify it back similar to the Classic hardware, to have physical controls for volume, movement and be more focused for simply playing music. Nobody loves touchscreen volume controls in cars, and I hate using my iPhone to control Music selections. Then part of the issue could be the horrific Music app.
I wish they'd bring back any iPod. Maybe the Nano or the Nano Touch with the small screen.
I hate having to be tethered to my
phone to listen to music. The watch doesn't cut it unfortunately, because transfer times ae still way, way too slow.
I hate having to be tethered to my
phone to listen to music. The watch doesn't cut it unfortunately, because transfer times ae still way, way too slow.
I used to see them at Target, and Worst Try quite often, but haven't seen one now in a few years. I think they are 'made to order' now? That would make sense. They can churn out a few hundred every month or so, and fulfill orders, but other than that, it's largely forgotten. Sad end... (I was geeked though to find an NOS 'Shuffle Stick' at a store (apparently found in a drawer or behind something). I passed on it, and thought maybe I should have bought it, but it was already gone by the time I got back there. *shrug* (Keep telling myself that the battery was probably dead))
As people are traveling more, the iPod will be missed more. I LOVE the Touch for traveling. It saves on iPhone batteries...
I think it's mostly still sold because of that retail environment thing. They're cheapish and easy for businesses to deploy - mainly in my experience for wait staff at fast casual restaurants. I assume that selling them in extra capacities and colours isn't a big deal (although the fact they do suggests there is a consumer market for them too).
You could argue "why don't they use an Android phone" or "why not use an enterprise thing from Zebra" - I suspect the answer to the former is that there aren't any that have the same small/light/good/cheap/durable ratio, and the enterprise tools Apple provide are helpful, as are anti-theft measures. The answer to the latter is a handheld from Zebra costs about six times as much and is 5 times the volume.
You could argue "why don't they use an Android phone" or "why not use an enterprise thing from Zebra" - I suspect the answer to the former is that there aren't any that have the same small/light/good/cheap/durable ratio, and the enterprise tools Apple provide are helpful, as are anti-theft measures. The answer to the latter is a handheld from Zebra costs about six times as much and is 5 times the volume.
I am in the exact same boat. We ended up giving our 6 year old an old iPod touch 2, but we really wanted something more modern, and with a camera, but price wise there just isn't something from Apple.
The SE is still twice the price of the touch, which is quite a bit for smaller kids, which would really be the target audience for an iPod touch update.
The problem with hand me down iPhones are that they are often slow, or broken in various ways, which is also why they were upgraded. At least for those of us who doesn't update to the newest model regularly. The kids wants to play whatever their friends are playing, and short of a relatively modern iPhone, that is not always possible. There's clearly a market for an updated iPod touch (The current price is outrageous considering the age of the chipset and camera), but I assume it must be very small, since they haven't updated it. I assume it is going out of the market soon.
wow, excellent!
that first idea was so incredible, i need to read the rest after that soaked in!
bravo!
Great idea. I'm going to dig mine out from my Apple graveyard and see if I can fire it up.
There’s space for the iPod to continue either as a more kids oriented device for games and basic messaging, or they go the totally opposite direction and make it into a far more audio focused device with maybe an integrated amp or something.
Interesting as I've run into far more iPad's in use, and zero Touch's. An occasional droid device, but the employees generally rip on them mercilessly. CIP: My doc used a droid tablet for 'quicker check-in' for a while, and it was a disaster. It was decreed and gifted 'from on high', and made less than zero sense if just from a 'limiting contagious disease exposure' angle. And every time I used it, it would lag and cache my plaintive efforts at selecting something on the screen so that I would end up having chosen other choices I shouldn't. (Once it was a 'female malady. The nurse was curious how I could have it. I said 'The tablet did it'. She groaned and exasperatingly said 'Happens all the time')
