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News Flash: Apple Special Event Planned 1st Week in July
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Intel Macs ARE out of the question
We software developers only just got the developer kits for Intel Macs, these definitely ARE out of the question.
johnbro23 said:
We software developers only just got the developer kits for Intel Macs, these definitely ARE out of the question.
Seeing as iPods generally get announced at "Special Media Events" so I've got high hopes for a 5G iPod. Even more so as there seem to be a couple of rumours and that product list which point to it. Thank god I decided to "rough it out" with just a 512MB shuffle after selling on my Mini!
I'm hoping for a redesign of the externals - no more easy to scratch surfaces please! Internal BT2.0 and gapless playback are my two must haves...
Bring on the 7th _ I've actually kept cash aside for a new iPod and I was very very close to giving in and getting a 60GB Photo this month!!!
On thing counting against... weren't the 80GB HDD's delayed?
I'm hoping for a redesign of the externals - no more easy to scratch surfaces please! Internal BT2.0 and gapless playback are my two must haves...
Bring on the 7th _ I've actually kept cash aside for a new iPod and I was very very close to giving in and getting a 60GB Photo this month!!!
On thing counting against... weren't the 80GB HDD's delayed?
If Apple are on the ball, I see it being:
1) Hey, look, a mobile phone with iTunes software and iTMS interfacing. Isn't that cool. And look, you can sync your music with your computer via bluetooth.
2) But that means that our normal iPods are behind! So we've added Bluetooth to both the 6G iPod Mini and our new MediaPod. Why MediaPod? Because it can play video, show pictures, and play music, with up to 50 hours of battery life! It also now supports Airport Express and both a music library synchronisation method, and as a playback method. iTunes 4.9 software supports playback via Airport Express.
3) We've listened to our customers, and today we are also introducing the 2GB iPod shuffle, with a built in OLED display for those of you who need more functionality. And for the same price as the old 1GB Shuffle, which now costs $99/£69. The 512MB Shuffle is now $69/£49.
4) But! That's not all!
** Unveils new iPod mini styled iBooks, with integrated iPod mini dock. 12" and 14" widescreen (1280x768). 1.4GHz G4. 512MB RAM. **
...
prepares for a letdown.
1) Hey, look, a mobile phone with iTunes software and iTMS interfacing. Isn't that cool. And look, you can sync your music with your computer via bluetooth.
2) But that means that our normal iPods are behind! So we've added Bluetooth to both the 6G iPod Mini and our new MediaPod. Why MediaPod? Because it can play video, show pictures, and play music, with up to 50 hours of battery life! It also now supports Airport Express and both a music library synchronisation method, and as a playback method. iTunes 4.9 software supports playback via Airport Express.
3) We've listened to our customers, and today we are also introducing the 2GB iPod shuffle, with a built in OLED display for those of you who need more functionality. And for the same price as the old 1GB Shuffle, which now costs $99/£69. The 512MB Shuffle is now $69/£49.
4) But! That's not all!
** Unveils new iPod mini styled iBooks, with integrated iPod mini dock. 12" and 14" widescreen (1280x768). 1.4GHz G4. 512MB RAM. **
...
prepares for a letdown.
5G ipod
Don't know anything about power consumption but a built in Airport would be great.
DREAM:
Imagine being able to stream music & video from your pod via Airport Express 2 to you hifi & TV. You could choose to join your preferred networks (home, work etc) & choose which Airport Express to stream to directly from the ipod interface. This would of course need a totally new radical design, better battery life, video playback - the iPod reinvented!
REALITY:
But I think we'll get 5G ipod, not drastically different in design (white & aluminium, 20gb/40gb/80/gb colour screen with a new Game!! ..and everyone will just buy it as if it were some new era in music.. again.......sigh..)
Don't know anything about power consumption but a built in Airport would be great.
DREAM:
Imagine being able to stream music & video from your pod via Airport Express 2 to you hifi & TV. You could choose to join your preferred networks (home, work etc) & choose which Airport Express to stream to directly from the ipod interface. This would of course need a totally new radical design, better battery life, video playback - the iPod reinvented!
REALITY:
But I think we'll get 5G ipod, not drastically different in design (white & aluminium, 20gb/40gb/80/gb colour screen with a new Game!! ..and everyone will just buy it as if it were some new era in music.. again.......sigh..)
From what I've heard, the new iPods should have much better battery life, but if they did add WiFi, they could probably keep about the same as now or still even more than now.
alexeismertin said:
Cingular makes sense. T-Mobile is still too busy selling outdated phones in the US market. I cannot figure them out.
Apple Store availability
512 shuffle -- same day
1 GB shuffle -- same day
4 GB mini -- same day
6 GB mini -- same day
20 GB iPod -- 2-4 days
30 GB photo -- 2-4 days
60 GB photo -- 2-4 days
All-color 20/30/60 isn't ambitious or sexy enough for a "major announcement" update. It's time for the 5G iPod, and I think that's what we're going to get.
As far as harddrives, it's getting harder to gauge. For most people, a 20 GB iPod is going to be adequate. (Don't tell me about your 20,000-track collection; I'm talking about the low end.) Photo capability across the line isn't all that sexy either; the iPod photo didn't take off like Apple had hoped.
I'm still not quite sure we'll see any kind of video integration with a 4.9 iTunes update -- seems like bad marketing not to go on up to 5 with the addition of such a major feature -- but video is the killer app and the thing users want the most.
So what's coming?
512 shuffle -- same day
1 GB shuffle -- same day
4 GB mini -- same day
6 GB mini -- same day
20 GB iPod -- 2-4 days
30 GB photo -- 2-4 days
60 GB photo -- 2-4 days
All-color 20/30/60 isn't ambitious or sexy enough for a "major announcement" update. It's time for the 5G iPod, and I think that's what we're going to get.
As far as harddrives, it's getting harder to gauge. For most people, a 20 GB iPod is going to be adequate. (Don't tell me about your 20,000-track collection; I'm talking about the low end.) Photo capability across the line isn't all that sexy either; the iPod photo didn't take off like Apple had hoped.
I'm still not quite sure we'll see any kind of video integration with a 4.9 iTunes update -- seems like bad marketing not to go on up to 5 with the addition of such a major feature -- but video is the killer app and the thing users want the most.
So what's coming?
If iPods were the same price they are now, but included any kind of audio input that would allow for 44.1 (or even 96!) kHz, stereo, uncompressed (or even possibly 128 kbps compression) audio recording, I know a lot of audio engineers, radio remote techs, small bands, TV crews, etc. that would buy one in a heartbeat!
Right now the options are: you get something like an iRiver, which is okay, but not great, for mobile recording, but just isn't built that great - for a few hundred; or you get a special compact flash recorder that can't record too much (4 GB max right now - and those cards are expensive), but is built sturdy and purposefully for on-the-road recording, but costs $500 and up.
Enter the iPod: $299 gets you 20 GB of recording, with an unbalanced 1/8" line input (or, heck, have some sort of dock adaptor for balanced XLR stereo!)and have some sort of way to set compression rates and such.
Right now the options are: you get something like an iRiver, which is okay, but not great, for mobile recording, but just isn't built that great - for a few hundred; or you get a special compact flash recorder that can't record too much (4 GB max right now - and those cards are expensive), but is built sturdy and purposefully for on-the-road recording, but costs $500 and up.
Enter the iPod: $299 gets you 20 GB of recording, with an unbalanced 1/8" line input (or, heck, have some sort of dock adaptor for balanced XLR stereo!)and have some sort of way to set compression rates and such.
SkipNewarkDE said:
But is MWSF in January out of the question. When the next quarterlies come out and Apple's Mac sales have dropped by 30 percent -- and Apple knew this would happen when it announced the Mactel deal -- the correct answer would be "We're ahead of schedule!"
Piarco75 said:
Last I heard Toshiba were planning these for Q3 2005. Since there then has to be some lead time to get them into retail products, I would not expect these to be in iPods until around September or October (and a single platter 40GB drive too). Hence I'm not expecting 5G iPods in July, but I hope I'm wrong.
sethypoo said:
are you saying that i am old?
why everybody remembers where they were during the landing of apollo 11, nixon flying off in his helicopter, and waiting for the next episode of "welcome back kotter" ?
CubaTBird said:what about those new ibooks... widescreen remember? or has everyone forgot about that rumor.. hehe
i am on the market for a new iBook. i hope it is not an intel-based one.
Am I the only one here who thinks Mac Mini's are due for a minor speed bump? It's been a third of a year already...
broken_keyboard said:
no it won't. it will be a computer company running intel *yuck* processors.
**** ****, just bought the v710 one week ago!!!!
wait, you say 5GB in 2006?
*grin* may make me replace my aging 2nd gen iPod - though waiting for a 10GB would be ideal.
2007 I'm already planning to get a new phone and a new computer, cause Verizon sucks but for the moment the parents front the bill so I put up with it... until 2007
wait, you say 5GB in 2006?
*grin* may make me replace my aging 2nd gen iPod - though waiting for a 10GB would be ideal.
2007 I'm already planning to get a new phone and a new computer, cause Verizon sucks but for the moment the parents front the bill so I put up with it... until 2007
johnbro23 said:
Yes, they are. Why would Apple sell a computer that currently no software other than Apple's own would run on? The 3rd party developers just got their Intel machines a week or two ago. It will be months before any real apps are ready for Intel.
EDIT: After reading the whole thread, it seems a bunch of other people have said the same thing...
I think the most important thing to keep in mind when speculating about Macintel release dates is that officially the consumer public has been told absolutely nothing by Apple about this. Apple is not going to release anything with an Intel processor until they prep the public and have some easy to understand PR material about how the switch is going to work.
Hattig said:
I doubt Apple would want to mess with their iPod mindshare and rename the product. "iPod media" or something of that ilk would be far more likely...
Daveway said:The Dashboard widget can only translate a couple lines at a time.
Well then you could have taken his other suggestion and used the sherlock translator... thats built straight into your mac. It seems to me that you didn't know about this, though.
my contract with cingular is up august 1st, so i would love to be able to re-up and grab this phone... hopefully we'll get to see it this week. its obviously going to be GSM, so the phone will be able to be unlocked for the majority of US carriers, which is good news for the masses.
