iPod touch September 9th Event at Apple Store

[zenntench_oni]

hopefully ipod touch would be a affordable.
hopefully $199 price point?
tomorrow ill be cashing my check.

 

[fswmacguy]

hopefully ipod touch would be a affordable.
hopefully $199 price point?
tomorrow ill be cashing my check.

I'm with you.

If there's a camera, there's my money.

 

[mhuntoon]

So, I visited my local Apple store over the weekend to look at a few things. A Genius walks up and asks if he can help. I told him I was just browsing, but because he was right there could he tell me anything about the new iTouchs coming out on the 9th. I told him I know it's still a rumor, but that it's all over the Internet and I'm assuming it's highly likely. He said he had never even heard the rumor and that the Geniuses won't know until we know when a new product comes out. I thanked him for his time and continued browsing.

A few minutes later, another Genius walks up and offers some help. I ask him about an iMac I was looking at and then bring up the iTouch and 9/9 stuff with him. He looks completely confused about a new iTouch coming out and said he would be really surprised if any new hardware were being announced on the 9th. He went on to say that a while back a customer called to ask about a product they had just seen announced on a web feed of a keynote and as he was saying he knew nothing about it, the doors open up and in comes a pallet. As if all of the Apple Stores around the world received the shipment at that very second.

1. Either Apple is amazing at keeping their cards to their chest even with their own employees and have some incredible deal with shippers that allows simultaneous deliveries around the world...

or

2. These Geniuses have very good poker faces (they really looked like they had no idea that a new iTouch was even a possibility)...

or

3. The Apple Store is now hiring people that somehow got fired from Best Buy