nbs2 said:
according to the article, dropping the ipod ipod for the photo, mini, shuffle?
In fact, I think they are actually turning the iPod photo into the regular iPod, discontinuing monochrome iPods to make them all color. Think about it: if Apple added color screen to the mini it should be called iPod mini photo. Apple usually give surnames to their products that describe the main feature of it in some way. The mini is smaller than the rest (well, not anymore, but it was), the shuffle has no screen, so you never know what will come next, and the photo has the ability to display pictures, it has a color screen. But when a feature becomes a standard, like all the iPods with screen get a color one, and, eventually, the ability to display pictures, there is no point in selling an "iPod photo" as a separate product since its main feature, once unique in the family, has become a standard, then the iPod photo becomes the regular iPod, or it merges with the regular iPod, or simply disappears, whatever you like. Also, if a 30GB iPod comes out and if the prices keep dropping, maybe the 20GB iPod won't be around for too much. Hope this helped clear things out.
So, the new line in the future (not necesairily in the near future, but if my predictions are correct) should be:
iPod 60GB: $449
iPod 40GB: $379
iPod 30GB: $349
iPod 20GB: $299
iPod mini 6GB: $249
iPod mini 4GB: $199
iPod shuffle 1GB: $149
iPod shuffle 512MB: $99
All (except shuffle and mini 4GB) include a color screen.
PD, macshrine.com is down, at least for me.
). No more borrowing mine! The kids get the Shuffle! Just waiting for the update to happen ...
