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New iPods, iPhone?

At first I thought those mock ups were ugly, but the 2nd one isn't that bad looking at all. I would get it.. I'm still not sure I like the first one though.

I think Ive's is losing his touh for me... I haven't wanted, like really wanted anything since the release of the 3rd gen iPods..
 
IMO, it'd be cooler to bump the price of the cheapest nanos down to the price of the shuffles and ditch the shuffles.
 
So, if there is an iPhone, this would sure be an awesome way to introduce it:

-Welcome
-All the movie stuff
-streaming video device?
-Video iPod?

One More Thing....
'Ring-Ring'
Steve: "Don't you hate it when people's phones go off in the movie-theater?"
Phil: "Hi Steve! I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
....

and the rest, as they say, is comedy :D
 
aristobrat said:
IMO, it'd be cooler to bump the price of the cheapest nanos down to the price of the shuffles and ditch the shuffles.
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That probably won't happen because I personally think Apple will dump the iPod Shuffle in favor of a new low-cost model almost the same size as the Shuffle (but in a scratchproof case) that includes a small LCD display to show time elapsed and title information. Expect 1 GB, 2 GB and possibly 4 GB versions (all flash memory).
 
lol

Elrond39 said:
So, if there is an iPhone, this would sure be an awesome way to introduce it:

-Welcome
-All the movie stuff
-streaming video device?
-Video iPod?

One More Thing....
'Ring-Ring'
Steve: "Don't you hate it when people's phones go off in the movie-theater?"
Phil: "Hi Steve! I'm not interrupting anything, am I?"
....

and the rest, as they say, is comedy :D
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Oh Phil, you're always interrupting at just the right time. But yeah, that would be funny, and definitely a plausible way for Steve to do introduce it. well done.
 
brepublican said:
I think the shuffle is fine as it is. Apple are trying to get proactive with the recent releases from Sandisk so they are prolly focusing on the nano.
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The shuffle's design is fine. But it's WAY overpriced for the capacity, they need to either bump sizes or drop prices, or both.

aristobrat said:
IMO, it'd be cooler to bump the price of the cheapest nanos down to the price of the shuffles and ditch the shuffles.
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It would. But I doubt it's possible to drop a nano from $149 to $69.
 
justflie said:
Oh Phil, you're always interrupting at just the right time. But yeah, that would be funny, and definitely a plausible way for Steve to do introduce it. well done.
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I've been stewing on this since the iPhone rumors flared up again, and they announced the "Showtime" event... It would seriously make my day :cool:
 
The 8 new iPod SKU numbers most likely are this:

iPod Video White (Low Capacity)
iPod Video White (High Capacity)
iPod Video Black (Low Capacity)
iPod Video Black (High Capacity)

Replace the word "Video" with "Nano" for the other 4 SKU numbers.
 
d_saum said:
please let there be an iPhone announcement today!!! Pretty pretty please!!!! My bill is due for my stupid sprint/nextel account and my phone is a total P.O.S.!!!!

I'll swith to it the DAY its available even if I have to pay to get out of my contract!!!!!!!!


Please Mr. Jobs... Hurry!! ;)
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Looks like we are in the same boat :D (except I have Cingular).
 
TheNightPhoenix said:
I Hoping/Dreaming for a 120GB beast! I might then get all my music in my pocket :)
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'Now thats what I'm 'talkin about!'

An iPod with less than 80 GB is for suckas'.

Ok, ok, just kidding. Seriously though, I've held off on an iPod because I have a huge music collection (over 1,000 CD and 600+ vinyl albums). I have yet to transfer most of my collection into the digital realm and my iTunes library is pushing 50GB already.

I bought a 4GB nano to appease me but it was hell trying to determine what songs to put in as it quickly filled up.:(
 
iPhone

Remember the strange comment The Steve(tm) made a few years ago about being proud of the new products Apple has released, and of the products Apple didn't?

I can see everyone in Apple wanting to build an iPhone. I can see them designing it. I can even see Jobs being personally involved in every detail, and coming up with a phone that's seen company wide as absolutely perfect, and complete stunning.

And I can then see Apple looking at reality, sighing, and burying it in the giant warehouse of Apple products that never saw the light of day. There's just no way to sell such a thing, and doing so would undermine Apple's ability to work with other manufacturers to ensure it retains control over the media scene after MP3 players become obsoleted by large capacity MP3-playing cellphones.

There's probably a corner of the warehouse assigned to projects like this. You'll have to crawl through archives of the Copland source code and blueprints for future Apple IIIs to get there. Prototype dual-core G5 iMacs and a Broadway-based microtablet line a small clearing. There, the janitor has built something akin to a shrine, only visible to a favoured few. And yes, one of the slimmest, cleanest, most friendly cellphones is currently sitting there, with pride of place.
 
Eduardo1971 said:
Ok, ok, just kidding. Seriously though, I've held off on an iPod because I have a huge music collection (over 1,000 CD and 600+ vinyl albums). I have yet to transfer most of my collection into the digital realm and my iTunes library is pushing 50GB already.
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At what bitrate are you encoding?
I myself have 1300 LPs (that is 17 000 songs) and they "only" take up 60GB (128kb/s)
 
ok, I don't care if the phone has got the Apple brand really as long as it has
a built in iTunes store and at least 20 Gb of storage + 3G functionalities and a heavy duty shell so you can talk while it's raining and it won't break if youi drop it...
 
peharri said:
Remember the strange comment The Steve(tm) made a few years ago about being proud of the new products Apple has released, and of the products Apple didn't?

I can see everyone in Apple wanting to build an iPhone. I can see them designing it. I can even see Jobs being personally involved in every detail, and coming up with a phone that's seen company wide as absolutely perfect, and complete stunning.

And I can then see Apple looking at reality, sighing, and burying it in the giant warehouse of Apple products that never saw the light of day. There's just no way to sell such a thing, and doing so would undermine Apple's ability to work with other manufacturers to ensure it retains control over the media scene after MP3 players become obsoleted by large capacity MP3-playing cellphones.

There's probably a corner of the warehouse assigned to projects like this. You'll have to crawl through archives of the Copland source code and blueprints for future Apple IIIs to get there. Prototype dual-core G5 iMacs and a Broadway-based microtablet line a small clearing. There, the janitor has built something akin to a shrine, only visible to a favoured few. And yes, one of the slimmest, cleanest, most friendly cellphones is currently sitting there, with pride of place.
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Yes, I don't think Apple can compete in the cell phone arena.

BTW, there was an Apple III, although Apple may have wished it had kept the thing (it was a huge flop) in the archives rather than releasing it...
 
P.B. said:
At what bitrate are you encoding?
I myself have 1300 LPs (that is 17 000 songs) and they "only" take up 60GB (128kb/s)
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128 cannot satisfy some people need. I know some people convert their CD to 256 or wave files.:eek:
 
iPod MEGA

Contrary to people's belief that there will be an update to the iPod Nano, Apple Computer will in fact launch the iPod Mega. The device will have 4 drawers for 3.5" SATA drives and will be carried on the shoulder, like the boomboxes of the 1980s.

the product and price lineup will be as follows:
iPod Mega 4x160GB - US$/£/€699
iPod Mega 4x250GB - US$/£/€899
iPod Mega 4x300GB - US$/£/€999

:p
 
peharri said:
I can see everyone in Apple wanting to build an iPhone. I can see them designing it. I can even see Jobs being personally involved in every detail, and coming up with a phone that's seen company wide as absolutely perfect, and complete stunning.

And I can then see Apple looking at reality, sighing, and burying it in the giant warehouse of Apple products that never saw the light of day. There's just no way to sell such a thing, and doing so would undermine Apple's ability to work with other manufacturers to ensure it retains control over the media scene after MP3 players become obsoleted by large capacity MP3-playing cellphones.

There's probably a corner of the warehouse assigned to projects like this. You'll have to crawl through archives of the Copland source code and blueprints for future Apple IIIs to get there. Prototype dual-core G5 iMacs and a Broadway-based microtablet line a small clearing. There, the janitor has built something akin to a shrine, only visible to a favoured few. And yes, one of the slimmest, cleanest, most friendly cellphones is currently sitting there, with pride of place.
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What a touching and romantic story!

I'm with the folks who say they'll pay out their contract and go with an Apple phone immeadiately. That being said, I don't see it happening soon. Here in the U.S. the FCC has to approve mobile phones for manufacture. The only way to sneak this one in is to have someone else manufacture and apply for FCC approval. That's been done before (M$ is doing that with Zune right now). I saw a phone in the last few weeks that got FCC approval, made by Samsung, that looked similar to all the iPhone mockups. That doesn't mean squat. In fact, if I was in that business, I'd study the mockups people are bouncing around on the web and build a phone based on those.
 
MacinDoc said:
Yes, I don't think Apple can compete in the cell phone arena.

BTW, there was an Apple III, although Apple may have wished it had kept the thing (it was a huge flop) in the archives rather than releasing it...
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I disagree. I think that eventually everyone's mp3 player will be their cell, will be their pda etc. Apple will want to get into it eventually, why not do it as a leader, early in the cell mp3 era rather than later.
 
google iphone video

Anyone see that mockup i phone video on google videos? It's amazing, I think I've watched a dozen times......If you believe, in what you see...

It's called italk
 
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