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This should be good. Like McCains in the microwave.
1. Steve still looks pretty skinny to me. Big props for coming back 7 months after a liver transplant, but he looks far from good.
2. no camera on the ipod touch? yikes!
3. camera but not pictures on the nano? huh??
4. Why is the classic still around? this should have been phased out – seems like a waste of resources to market it. Might as well make a fatboy iPhone that has the extra storage..
pretty much a yawn announcement and the small drop in stock price is a reflection of the market’s take on the event: Boring… so now we shall wait for the Zune announcement.
My take on the lack of the video camera on the itouch was so as not to cannibalize sales of the new iPhone from AT&T (as the iTouch can do Skype calls).
I keep hearing about “chip problems” (which I think is bull) with incorporating the camera into the touch but wouldn’t the new iTouch be a new 3G iPhone without the telephony?
#3 Even though the classic sells less then the other iods it still outsells any other hard drive player on the market.
New iPods… Yaaawwwnn….
Seriously, I was thinking all the line, except the nano, would move to ipod touch, the classic would be replaced by a touch with HardDrive, and they would ditch the shuffle.
IMHO the nano is the best all around iPod. Seriously, who needs 160Gb…people already have all the stuff on the desktop and on the laptop…
John, someone who looks like…
…a shorter-hair version of Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron played the Floridian murderess in “Murder”)…
…shouldn’t talk.
Pale, thin, pallid and gaunt.
And Jobs didn’t look very well either.
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I guess Leo was right on Twit. They brought Jobs to a crappy announcement so his return wouldn’t overwhelm anything of importance.
The new Nano sounds pretty dumb.
@3
Why is the classic still around, the real question is why would anyone buy an mp3 player that only holds 16gb, oh and you get to pay the wonderfully low price of 179$ for such a useless device.
I want an mp3 player, not some tiny media device that takes pictures, plays games and has no space to hold any of it.
Why not an iphone with an HD and a big battery?
Are we beyond the ipod phase yet? How many devices do you carry around?
Apple: What the Fuck? Worst episode ever!
Apple kinda blew it by putting the camera in the Nano, but not in the Touch.
The odd thing is, I didn’t really think about having a camera in an iPod (ignoring the iPhone) until they stuck it in the Nano. Now I want a Touch with a camera in it.
I have 49GB of music, so I need the 64GB Touch, which would have left room for video. But with no camera, I guess I’ll be waiting for next year’s announcement.
Dumb question….
Does the iPod Nano video camera also record audio? Seems a bit pointless to shoot video without the audio to go with with it. A camera would have made more sense.
ok, so my thoughts are as follows
1) larger Ipod classic. Perfect for automobiles. I have a pioneer deck in my car, and I leave my current classic loaded with music and videos. Being able to have my whole library of both, is nice.
2) ipod Nano — Interesting, but underwhelming. I honestly think that they are only looking at competing with the flip, but that is it. The FM tuner doesn’t make sense, if it was HD, it would be better.
3) iPod Touch. Love the new size option, hate the fact that it doesn’t have a camera yet.
Nothing to announce, so they announce Steve Jobs is feeling better, and the crowd goes wild!
Snow Leopard = Service Pack 2 = Yawn
Variations on music players = Yawn
An even more bloated iTunes = Ughhh
Ringtomes… more rigntones = Pfffttt
75000 apps = 10 useful apps = $1400 / year phone service
And you think Obama has a “cult of personality” following? HA!
#17
couldn’t have put it better myself. 🙂
Apple will sell a cubic kilometer of the videoNanos. Next year they will sell a cubic mile of the HDvideoNanos with 32/64/128 GB chips.
Also coming: the iPhoneChat. A two-way iPhone to iPhone only video phone system.
The coming tablet will kill Kindle.
Buzz mega zchemega shevva.
@16
Actually it’s not really a bigger iPOD classic it’s the same size as the one they stopped making last year.
Yeah, yesterday’s Apple “event” = FAIL
I would have gotten an itouch had it been given a camera, the same one that the iPhone has, that is. I think I’ll keep waiting…
It is obvious why the iTouch didn’t get the video camera. Look inside the agreement with ATT no use of 3G network for video, only WiFi.
The announcement which I expect to come next will be Movie Rentals from YouTube, watch in any WiFi zone. They will be stored on the iTunes cloud, and be able to watch within a specified time
I love No Agenda, keep Adam in Line MrCD (that’s what I call ya John C Dvorack
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Lance still has a JOB? God is he sucking up Macfans now?