The classic may stick around as many just want a music player. they dont want wifi or apps. Plus those same people have large libaries and want them with them at all times.[/FONT]
people who just want to have a music player will now be targeted by the new nano. apple is obviously changing the functionallity of their products. for example: the nano is going to be the new shuffle plus display and the touch is going to be the new video device that the nano used to be. now it is clear why apple didn't add the camera to the touch last time - so it is new and fresh now.
but 2011 will mark 10 years since the orgnail ipod. [/FONT]
sorry, you are right! even more reason to remove the old ipod now. it will create a nostalgic feeling when it will be back as a limited edition in 2011.
I think its pretty obvious. But 16GB? I think if your statement were to come true it will be 32GB, 64GB and 128Gb.
And again, its not ram, but storage. [/FONT]
16 / 64 and 128 is the marketing trick they always make (but i admit it works better with 8 / 32 / 64 GB). the trick is to have a low entry level price to seduce the people to think about buying it. then you ask yourself "but if i only add 100 us$ i'll get a lot more..." so you'll end up buying the second model.
So what did jobs mean by we will sell tens of millions of facetime devices this year. The touch is pretty much the iphone, but with out the phone. It can handle facetime just fine. (but since its an open indristy standard we could see desktop clients adapt the use of it and we could connect to programs such as WLM and ichat[/FONT]
i can imagine that the ipad is going to get a facetime-camera soon and that might explain it. apple is always very keen that the ipod touch is NOT as good as the iphone. remember: first the touch didn't even have a microphone connector, a loudspeaker or a volume button. when they shipped it, they even removed the "add date" function to the calendar!
they want people to buy iphones, not ipod touch as the cheaper alternative. they are always looking that you "miss" something and still consider switching to the iphone one day (for example by only adding a 3 mp cam or NO facetime support).
So pretty much a new shuffle then? Why go thoughn all the trouble of adding video and a camcorder to throw it all out?[/FONT]
i think the video-experiment on the nano didn't work out. it wasn't a very oftn used feature and the ipod touch is the much better machine to integrate the video functionality as it it also capable of editing the video on the device with the new imovie iOs app (it makes perfect sense now!).
the new formfactor of the nano is so close to the shuffle, that it is not necessary anymore. the shuffle often caused problems with the image. remember how people laughed about not being able to see which song is played or to select a certain song. apple haters bashed apple so badly with it, I also noted that most people didn't understand the concept when the shuffle was presented on a selling-desk with mp3 players from other brands.
but apple kept on sticking to the shuffle because it was necessary as the nano was to large to be "hidden" or clipped somewhere in a bag or on a t-shirt. the nano can do this now, and if they add the shuffles "voice control" and the headphone-remote it is a nearly perfect replacement.
the shuffle simply doesn't make any sense now. and before the shuffle canibalizes the new nanos market, they better force people to start with the new nano for 99 euro.
16Gb and 32GB this round. Dock connecter will stay[/FONT]
if you buy a 16 gb one it already has enough memory so you won't buy the larger one. the entry ipod has to be limited, so that apple seduces you to buy the larger one. that's the old trick apple plays with most of its machines, so why not on the ipod nano ;-)
Like I said. You just described the new shuffle. [/FONT]
the shuffle is going to be discontinued, the name "shuffle" is going to die. maybe even the name "touch" is going to die too, so that the touch is now simply the "ipod". then apple has the ipod (formerly known as ipod touch), the iphone and the ipad and of course the ipod nano. makes perfect sense now.
[FONT="]So you can get a 160GB touch then? There wont be 3 resolutions.[/FONT][/QUOTE]
the touch is ram based, so it can not get 160 GB. it can get 16, 64 and 128. and who knows, maybe next year we can see an ipod touch with 256 gb of ram?
you might now say: 128 gb is not as much as 160 gb. but downgrades were never a problem with apple, they did that with the ipod mini too. apples marketing is clever enough to let you believe that you got the same value by telling you it is the same amount of SONGS... ;-)
