Because Apple's entire philosophy is to sell you an obsolete and crippled product. That's how they get you to upgrade in a year and buy another one that has a feature that should have been part of the original product.
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New A8 iPod Touch Clocks in at 1.10GHz, Includes 1GB RAM and Bluetooth 4.1
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Because Apple's entire philosophy is to sell you an obsolete and crippled product. That's how they get you to upgrade in a year and buy another one that has a feature that should have been part of the original product.
The beta is pretty slow. It's laggy on my iPad Air (not too laggy but it's noticeable).
That's hilarious! I guess the A-chip jump was so high that they had to skip a codename number.
Whew! So glad the iPod Touch has Bluetooth 4.1 that doesn't interfere with its LTE radio...
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
So you want to DOWNGRADE the 64GB model to 32GB?
$649 is the 16GB model.. $749 is the 64GB model... LOL
Spotted the Bluetooth thing earlier on the tech specs page, really interested to see if they bring in any OS level changes to take advantage of that. It's understandable that nothing was announced at wwdc as that would have been a direct nod to upcoming hardware which is an Apple faux pas, but I wonder if it's big enough to warrant a mention at the 6s announcement.
The Geekbench 3 scores for the new iPod touch are right in line with where they are for the iPad mini 2 (1377/2478). So that gives you a general idea of what the performance will be like. Very nice upgrade for sure.
I agree. I WAS going to buy it (just because I love gadgets), but I decided to hold off. It still only gets "40 hours Music Playback" like the last generation. The watered down A8 is good, but since my iPod Touch 5th generation is on 6.1, it'd be "as fast" as an iPod Touch 6th Generation on iOS 8.4 with the same music playback time.
I wouldn't mind receiving this iPod Touch as a gift though...
That will be the only upgrade next year, for $100 more over the previous generation...
I expect to keep the margins where they want them and the price point stable. Don't forget the 3rd gen was actually just a repackaged 2nd gen iPod Touch unless you went with the higher capacity model, then you actually got a better processor as well. I'm sure it was again a margins issue.
I'll be honest, I highly doubt they'll be updating the iPod again for at least another two or three years, if they ever update it again at all.That will be the only upgrade next year, for $100 more over the previous generation...
I expect to keep the margins where they want them and the price point stable. Don't forget the 3rd gen was actually just a repackaged 2nd gen iPod Touch unless you went with the higher capacity model, then you actually got a better processor as well. I'm sure it was again a margins issue.
I'm pretty sure the new iPod touch would still feel significantly faster despite being on iOS 8.4.
"Although I do find it ironic that the only product with Touch in the name doesn't have Touch ID! "
nicely said
nicely said
I was surprised they did this at all. Frankly, for $100 more, the mini2 makes a better entertainment device for kids.
Right..knew there would some inane whining. You do know this thing is just $200 hey?
Go elsewhere to get your magical product you covet if you think apple screws you so much. Or maybe you like the pain?
I noticed since iOS 8.4 that some games I play on my ol' 5th iPod Touch have significant frame rate drops since before the update, which I knew meant that the 6th generation of iPod Touch with faster CPU was around the corner, because Apple loves to cripple software performance on old devices to drive a hardware upgrade path.
Except the chances of a new iPod touch next year are nill. Putting A8 into this device means it will get one or two more OS upgrades before being discontinued.
Interesting how it's clocked at around what the 6 will throttle down to under stress testing. Wonder if they'll do anything to limit it's GPU performance.
Planned obsolescence. Apple should be taken to court for that, it's unethical fraud and spitting in the face of Apple consumers.
I'd guess this is it. They'll let this model ride for a few years and then quietly discontinue the entire line.
The only thing I think this is missing now is Touch ID and the ability to integrate Apple Pay into the device.
Clearly this is deliberate, or else they would have found a way of integrating this into their newest device.
Clearly this is deliberate, or else they would have found a way of integrating this into their newest device.
If Apple really did that kind of stuff, I don't understand why you or anybody else would ever buy Apple products. Fact of the matter is, they don't do that kind of thing. Because they also know that nobody would ever buy their products again if they pulled that kind of crap.
Or, you can put your money where your mouth is and never buy another Apple product again, if you really think that's what they're doing.