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iPod touch Released

syklee26 said:
if you keep your eyes on stock markets, Apple's stocks always plunge right after Steve's keynotes. it's just that it plunged more today due to pricecut of iPhone.....less profit to be made.
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Yeah, I know, I was just referring to the other poster's claim that AAPL was just following the market, which isn't the case.

Plus - correct me if I'm wrong - hasn't Apple stock actually done ok after the last couple of keynotes? I'm thinking the iPhone announcement specifically...
 
How long was it between the 5g's introduction to the 5.5g's introduction?

Could we perhaps see a 6.5g iPod Touch with Hard Drive instead of flashbased?

I'm sticking with my 80gb White iPod for now. However, I do love the silver on the Classic and it would match my new Macbook Pro!
 
I get the feeling next year they'll roll the classic and the touch together, giving you one with flash and one with hard disks, like they did with the 4G and the photo.

I'll be waiting until then.

Though now that the iPhone is cheaper, and refurbs, down the road I'm getting me an iPhone, now that I get cheap plans since I work at Radioshack.
 
Anyone able to get onto the UK Store yet? My Safari keeps freezing! People must be battering the Apple UK site. I can hop on the US store fine.
 
I cannot understand why some people here are so disappointed with the 16GB of storage. Seriously people, how many of you like so many songs??? I have 20,000 songs on my library but my favorite are less than a thousand...I have playlists and now I will be syncing only them to my newly ordered iPod Touch!

Please do not also forget that this thing has a 3,5 Display and WiFi. If Apple had decided to put a Hard Drive, then the battery life would suffer!!!

Just try thinking before you post!!!

I can see that people would like more storage, I would also! I now have a white 30GB iPod but the touch is better despite the lack of storage.
 
xStep said:
By not having at least one hard drive version of the iPod Touch, Apple will be loosing sales. Many people will be saying thanks, but not thanks Apple.
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Not that many. The mini/nano has been the top selling iPod for years now. Most people don't own that much music. I guess I'm like you in that my iTunes Library is approaching 10,000 tracks (and that does not include any of my classical music collection, which is approaching 1000 discs).

People like us aren't normal. The majority of people own maybe 30 or 40 CDs worth of music. For them the Touch will be quite adequate.
 
Matto1020 said:
Could we perhaps see a 6.5g iPod Touch with Hard Drive instead of flashbased?
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I don't see this happening. The only reason the iPod classic is around is transition into a flash-based lineup that offers higher capacities. It makes plenty of sense to keep the "classic" because of it's signature design at higher capacities, but again... the HDD is a flaw for a mobile digital media player. Apple is going to permanently elminate it.
 
Skype?

Hey... ok, so I admittedly haven't read the first 12 pages of comments. I was wondering if anyone mentioned hacking it for Skype? I recognize it doesn't appear to have a mic, so I doubt this is possible, but very curious (could be overcome by some third-party dock connector microphone or??).

Also, no camera, no mic, no HDD, no BT and Youtube, Facebook, etc. etc. become one-way communication, basically. Kinda meh.
 
As many people have already said, for as much as everyone has been dying for the multi-touch iPod, everyone sure is complaining a lot.

If you want a touch screen and wifi and 8-16gb of storage is enough, get an iPod touch.

If you have a bigger library and want to carry most, if not all, of it with you, get an iPod Classic.

The touch is cool and I dig the inclusion of Wifi and Safari but I have a huge music collection. And the suggestion of swapping music daily isn't going to work for me - I listen to music at least 8 hours a day and have no idea what I'm going to listen to when my day begins.

Sooo, instead of whining and complaining, I ordered an iPod Classic. And I'll just see what Apple does to the iPod touch in the future.
 
It also seems international folks are getting priority. The UK says Sept 28th shipping whilst the US store says Pre-order
 
petvas said:
I cannot understand why some people here are so disappointed with the 16GB of storage. Seriously people, how many of you like so many songs??? I have 20,000 songs on my library but my favorite are less than a thousand...I have playlists and now I will be syncing only them to my newly ordered iPod Touch!
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I have 74,000 songs... almost 900 GB of music. I'm not your average iPod user. I realize this. Thus, my expectations are also realistic. I simply can't fit my entire library on a digital device. I'm not sure why you think it's abnormal to have a large digital library though. Perhaps mine is on the high end of the scale, but having hundreds of gigs of music isn't all that uncommon if you take your entire music collection digital, collect live concerts, etc...
 
notjustjay said:
Because I can actually buy one. iPhones aren't actually available yet in certain places, such as any country that's not the USA :)

I have to say, the iPod Touch is very compelling. I don't think I currently use more than 4-5 gigs on my 30 gig iPod, so even the 8 gig model is a step up for me.
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Ah, good point. I have nothing against the iPod Touch, aside from capacity really but that's just me.
 
Unspeaked said:
Yeah, I know, I was just referring to the other poster's claim that AAPL was just following the market, which isn't the case.

Plus - correct me if I'm wrong - hasn't Apple stock actually done ok after the last couple of keynotes? I'm thinking the iPhone announcement specifically...
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the keynote where Steve introduced iPhones was the only time AAPL actually went up in recent time....other times it always went down following the presentation.
 
madmaxmedia said:
The majority of the market IS ALREADY BUYING FLASH PLAYERS (Nano and Shuffle).

I think this is one of the main reasons why Apple went with flash memory with the Touch- most consumers seems to prefer the advantages of flash memory, vs. the higher capacity of HD.
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When I said "majority of ipod users" I meant real ipods, not the mini versions for people who dont care to have the capacity.

It's nice to see apple's stock take a dip after these announcments, now maybe they will realize they can't just throw out any old thing and we'll eat it up.

and to the person who said that having an ipod with all your music on it is a "dumping ground", yeah i HATE how my closet is a dumping ground for my clothes, and how my kitchen is a dumping ground for my food, dishware and appliances. If only apple would release iHouse and force me to MANAGE my possessions rather than have everything I own in one place. :confused:
 
this is awesome stuff......
i hope we can hack into the iPod Touch just like the iPhone and install useful apps.
A list of apps i would like to see would be:
1. Notes / To Do
2. Email client
3. Google Maps (is it there by default?)
4. Adium / other Chat programs
5. Skype with a microphone accessory

Am i just dreaming or is this realistically possible?
 
petvas said:
I cannot understand why some people here are so disappointed with the 16GB of storage. Seriously people, how many of you like so many songs??? I have 20,000 songs on my library but my favorite are less than a thousand...I have playlists and now I will be syncing only them to my newly ordered iPod Touch!

Please do not also forget that this thing has a 3,5 Display and WiFi. If Apple had decided to put a Hard Drive, then the battery life would suffer!!!

Just try thinking before you post!!!

I can see that people would like more storage, I would also! I now have a white 30GB iPod but the touch is better despite the lack of storage.
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You have to choose between:

Small screen + high capacity

or

Big screen + low capacity

Kind of a waste. I want to utilize the screen on the iPod Touch by watching videos, saving tons of pictures and listen to thousands of songs. Videos alone eats up space alone.

Many of us "whiners" don't like fiddling 20 minutes with playlists everyday selecting which songs we want to take with us. I had that problem when my iPod mini got filled up 3 years ago.

Further more my mood changes and I sometimes randomly select a songs. I never pre-define what I want to listen to.
 
crossfade playback????

do the new iPods (finally) have crossfade playback?

i've always been annoyed that iTunes has it but iPods don't.
 
petvas said:
I cannot understand why some people here are so disappointed with the 16GB of storage. Seriously people, how many of you like so many songs??? I have 20,000 songs on my library but my favorite are less than a thousand...I have playlists and now I will be syncing only them to my newly ordered iPod Touch!

Please do not also forget that this thing has a 3,5 Display and WiFi. If Apple had decided to put a Hard Drive, then the battery life would suffer!!!

Just try thinking before you post!!!

I can see that people would like more storage, I would also! I now have a white 30GB iPod but the touch is better despite the lack of storage.
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Some people, myself included, just like to have all their songs available whenever. Personally I'd rather it be a tad bigger and have a HD, that way there'd be no battery sacrifice.
 
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