Sure, you could dismiss this round of iPod rumors -- so carefully culled by the fine folks at 9 to 5 Mac and AppleInsider -- as baseless speculation, but we'll have none of your dowdy skepticism. We're talking about
rainbows here, people. AppleInsider claims that retailers are seeing current iPod models being switched to "discontinued" in inventory systems, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says to expect iPod refreshes across the board, including a slightly redesigned $200 iPod touch, and meanwhile 9 to 5 Mac has it from an unnamed source that the new iPod nanos will have enhanced features, double the storage and
rainbow color schemes. It's almost like somebody in Cupertino is reading our mind! We'll know for sure when new iPods arrive mid-September filled to the brim with "Run's House" episodes and bedecked in rainbow-hued gummy bears. It's going to rock.
[Thanks, Kiwi616]
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posted Aug 21st 2008 12:14PM
How about an iPod with a see-through case?
How about adding Nike+ to more than just the Nano? That'd be a nice change.
They should refresh the iPod's less often, and think about updating the Mac Mini already.
no, thats not possible. it MUST contain either brushed aluminum, glass, or glossy plastic, or all of the above. no discussion.
How about they focus on fixing the iPhone before it becomes iPhail?
CHARLIE!
iPod: Candy Mountain Edition.
@gfar:
They'd never support Nike+ for the Classic. The Touch, yeah. But not the Classic. Encouraging you to exercise with a HDD-based iPod is just asking for people to make use of the warranty.
as redesigned as the new iphone?
@ The Dude
I use my IPod 3G (the one before they even had color) while I rollerblade, and it's lasted me all these years just fine. There's no harm in using a hard-drive based MP3 player during exercises.
@Kojo87 - Who says you have to buy a new one? Certainly not apple. It's your own decision. It's not like the one you buy will be worthless the next time a new one comes out.
Hell, I still have my 60gb picture (not video) iPod, and other than having a low battery life, it works just fine.
a ham sandwich: Glass can be see though.
"I use my IPod 3G (the one before they even had color) while I rollerblade,"
rollerblading is much lower impact than jogging. and they don't make nike + for rollerblading.
@Okänd, I would recommend finding different translation software.
@gfar
The Nike+ Mac Mini?
Like my old Gameboy Color!??!? Except it has to be purply.
Jesus... It's like it's a new model/revision every couple of months.
More like annually, but you say that like that's a bad thing.
It kind of is.
How is it bad?
The same thing happens with computers and cell phone. Newer components and devices come out constantly.
I'm starting to think a yearly refresh *is* a bad thing. When they were first doing this it was significant. Now that the form factor's mature it just seems like it happens because "it's always been that way".
There's a huge landfill, manufacturing waste byproduct in this. I think I'm starting to get my fill. Wait, Nokia's got a new 8800 out? & it's got a carbon case!? Sorry- gotta go...
im glad it bothers someone else. i never bought an iPod because i pretty much knew i would be buying a new one every year even though they are the exact same thing!! maybe im ignorant but how is the new "classic" any different from an old video iPod?
Your old iPod didn't stop working.
You do not need to buy the new one.
Apple isn't forcing you to buy...
Its like saying Iwill not buy a new computer because I know next year there will be a faster one... Geeze
M
gotta go could mean you give the old one to you niece, nephew, neighbor or friend, or goodwill, or ebay is an option. Or you could just sent it to me. I'm sure I could find a use for it.
OK kojo. That makes no sense. I suppose that you haven't purchased a cell phone, a computer, a TV or any number of other devices then. Why exactly are you on a gadget blog again?
Im still rocking the 5G 30GB since Feb 2005, so not everyone is upgrading all the time! i do think its time for me to upgrade ive been watching a lot of video podcasts and would be nice to have a bigger screen. ive been looking at the touch but i need like 30GB which seems to be enough for me, but the current 32GB touch costs £330!! ($630). If that drops to £200- ill be good to buy it.
Yeah, i have my 80Gb Video since it launched, and, sure, it would be nice to have a touch, but I wont change it if it works well. If what you have works for you then keep it...for the moment
@Niz
I'm right there with you, i have an 80gig 5G Video...it's still goin strong. I'd buy an 80 gig touch in a heartbeat..considering my video is full.
If you're worried about filling up landfills, then don't buy a new one every year.
No one is forcing people to go out and get the latest. It isn't like your year old iPod expires when the new one comes out. If you find your old one suitable, don't buy a new one and I assure you Apple will get the message and stop spending so much money developing new ones.
Kojo87 is right. I have an iPod Video and from the outside, it looks exactly the same as the iPod Classic. The menu interace is a little different, but other than that they're basically the same.
I still use my 2nd generation iPod Nano 8GB. The things plays music and podcasts... and is thinner than a pencil WITH a hard case on it.
No need to get rid of it.
@BigDaddyM
I will not buy this computer, it is scratched.
CraigJ: um what? i said never bought an iPod because i knew i would personally be spending $300 a year on something i already have. or did you just misread what i wrote thinking iPod and PMP are interchangeable. i own a Zune. and dont tell me what i do and don't buy. i really dont need to defend myself as to what gadgets i own (although apparently that gives me credibility somehow)
I actually still use a 3G 15GB ipod, lol. I replaced the battery for a whopping $8 after I lost my 1st gen ipod Nano (fell out of my pocket when I was at a car show because I kept sitting down in different cars and I had a pair of pants with pretty wide pockets that day...doh).
So no, you don't have to buy a new ipod every friggin' time a new one comes out (although I'm probably going to replace the 3G when the next gen comes out...still it's served me for 5 years)
@ Phanbouy
My nipples explode with delight!
Matt, we need you to make that a little less virtual, please.
couldn't be any worse than the 90210 iPod Nano. bring on the unicorns!
What if it's Jason Priestly riding a unicorn sidesaddle under a rainbow?
I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin', but I think unicorns are kick ass!
I kill unicorns so I can drink their blood and sustain my wretched life.
It's not a unicorn, it's a horse with a sword on it's head!
It's a unicorn...look you can see his, um, horn.
I hope Apple changes the model names. "Nano"? "Touch"? "Classic"? How dull and un-unicorn-like. We need new model names. How about...
iPod Feathers
iPod Cadillac
iPod Tom Cruise
I actually like dull and un-unicorn-like. I mean, how about:
iPod Dull
iPod Un-unicorn-like
iPod Old Model Name
Unicorns with frick'n lasers would be awesome!
Interesting. I wonder if that old patent Apple filed for "color changing cases" comes in to play here.
This is from back in 2002:
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/12/30.15.shtml
That would be cool, id buy one if it changes colour like the spinning beachball.
I'd always assumed that was referring to things like the invisible sleep light back on the white iBooks. When it's not asleep, the indicator is invisible. When you sleep it, the white dot shows up.
These days I guess it could apply to the hidden iSight lights.
That's it I'm convinced to switch. Where the hell have I been all my iLife.
I'm going to beg the wife to get a macpro also!!!!
I love your Nick + Steve Ballmer avatar!
It looks more like what Jobs is doing to all the cultist to me.
HEY! thats not a letter "A" with two dots! :)
I'm not sure what "to all the cultist" means, but I didn't want to know that Jobs was doing that to you.
"I'm almost ashamed to smoke it. That would be like.... killing a Unicorn."
lol best profile name on this site :P
Awesome, I love rainbows!
I like the idea of a new ipod but i would hope that they would try and fix the 3g iphone first a little more before spreading themselves thin, you get what i am saying
Trust me they aren't spreading themselves thing. iPod and iPhone are different dev teams for sure.
I doubt the iPhone and iPod Touch use two different development teams. I do doubt the same people work on the software and hardware, though.
Check the link for 9 to 5 Mac, it has http:// http//.
They need to put speakers on the touch no if's or but's, oh and no and's
How about a radio?
And how about giving me 30GB instead of 27.86?! I PAID FOR 30!
@ Alex
Get used to it. That's how it always has been, and that's how it always will be. This goes back to original iPods and it's how it is with computer hard drives. Seriously, check your capacity of your computer hard drive... it won't match up either.
You got 30GB. If you thought you were gonna get 30 GiB, then you fail at SI.
Woop de do. How about adding real, useful features. Like OMG! Bluetooth maybe?
What I've wondered about is when they're gonna put the Internet into the iPods. The "i" was always supposed to stand for Internet. Thats what it stands for with the iMac. Why not iPod?
I also wonder when the iconic scroll wheel will die.
Ummmm they did it's called Mobile Safari over Wi-Fi on the iPod touch.
@ Bill Jobs: They already put the internet in the iPod. It's called the iPod Touch.
Whoops, wickedpheonix beat me to it.
Are you trying to be Ironic?
iPod touch does everything the iPhone does (except 3G and phonecalls)
yes, he's being iRonic
@ mike - so the iPhone does 3G and phonecalls now?
@GreezyG, i still want my fucking MMS!
Dude, Greezy, just give the guy his candy!
@ Jason: I truly laughed out loud. Thanks
I so hope that the new modeled iPod touch and MacBook come out.... but i dont think rainbow ipod nano sounds very realistic.... you never know though...
Yeah actually the mistake about the link is true.
Like truly an intelligent and relevant comment.
Not only Apple blaaah Windows Blaa bashing. So bored of these.
Hopefully they announce a HDD 80GB iPod Touch. Either that or a iPod Classic with a bigger screen.
When I first saw this post, I got a little scared. I didn't look at the title because all my attention was brought to the rainbow unicorn picture, which is no doubt the ultimate fantasy of all of us here. After being taken aback for a few moments, I finally read the headline and saw "Apple" at the beginning. And suddenly, it all made complete sense.
What is this next BIG revision? They stuff an F'in Lanyard in the box and call it a revolutionary feature...
I guess no one really cares anymore about iPods as there has been no leaked pictures as yet...
The only thing interesting here is the price drop for the Touch down to $200... but knowing apple they will start to sell it like a car... you want E-mail? that's a $20 option.... JAILBREAK TIME!
C'mon Fanboys, iEngadget just served up the iSlop, now come and mop it up with your mouth...
Hey troll:
LEAVE!
Bad, iEye, bad!
*Slaps iEye on the nose*
Wow... Obsess much? Don't like it... don't buy it.
Yes, that's fine iEye, you go ahead and clench your teeth, but as for us...we'll be drinkin' that free bub-a-lub and eatin' that rainbow stew.
Haha, nice picture. Classic.
199 ipod touch. Now we are talking.
yeah its called a refurbed touch.
Put a speaker in the touch! Come on Apple!
You go to hell! You go to hell and die! Stupid 12 year old punks running around with their speakerphones/musicplayers,
Soooooo straight!
>>rainbow color schemes
Wow! First came gay marriages now we are getting gay ipods. What is this world coming to.
Said the guy with a Napoleon Dynamite avatar. :P
I would need a new Mac Mini. Can't they come up with some rumors on that one?
Another year. Another iPod.
by rainbow I think it more likely that Apple is going to continue their multiple color-scheme, meaning a red iPod nano, an orange one, a yellow one, a green one, a blue one, a purple one... stuff like that.
Rumor has it a burning iPod viewed through a prism will display rainbow colors.
$199 16GB iPod Touch with GPS, speakers, camera, that's still just 8mm thick, maybe in a few different colors. That would sway me. Unlikely, I know. but they would sell hundreds of thousands of those.
YES! i would love to see these features! and idc if its still 400$ i would pay that for it.
and i dont really care about the colors thing though. i like classic black. its my style.
maybe a better back that doesnt scratch as much though. thatd be nice.
People like you will never be satisfied.
=/
I've been soooo close to picking up a refurbished iPod Touch for $199. Off and on, off and on. Never pulling the trigger. I think I'm just going to wait 2-3 weeks and purchase a new one with box and all materials. I kinda wish Apple wouldn't update their iPods as fast as they do, it's getting a bit ridiculous. I wonder what the "slight" revision to the touches will be. What really could they add. I predict a 16GB iPod Nano though. Maybe no more "fat" nanos?
Rainbow colored aluminum trim, ugh -- I hope this is some kind of a crazy joke.
I'm sorry, Josh, but you're out of luck. It's only your average run of the mill joke.