Apple May Introduce New iPod on Wednesday 190
UnHolier than ever writes "Apple may be planning to announce a 'revamp' of the iPod on Wednesday. Reporters from across Europe have been asked to view a broadcast presentation by Steve Jobs at the BBC headquarters. Theorized features for this new iPod include a full or wide-screen with touch controls, ala the ever-popular iPhone. '[An analyst with Goldman Sachs] believes that a new line of iPods will boost demand for the gadget from Goldman's present forecast of about 19.8 million units for Apple's key first quarter - the reporting period that covers Christmas. However, that still suggests that demand for iPods will be flat, at best, compared with the same period last year, when Apple sold about 21 million devices.'"
May? (Score:2, Interesting)
I have always wondered (Score:2, Interesting)
I still listen to radio ocasionally when I want to listen to something different.
may not be wireless (Score:3, Interesting)
http://lunchat.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/klee
thus it may not have any skype/wireless capabilities.
Re:iPods (Score:3, Interesting)
look at the contracts... (Score:5, Interesting)
If you unlock your iPhone and don't use it on the contracted provider, then Apple loses that money.
So yeah, the unlocking has likely hurt Apple's business model.
Re:My suggestion: (Score:5, Interesting)
what i do know is that 2 of our suppliers who normally don't sell apple stock were offering cheap ipods for the past 2-3 months here in ireland. they really seem to have been off loading ipod video and ipod nano stock. i also heard from friends who had companies they dealt with offering similar deals. now it might just be the lower end but it was still a significant departure for these companies to suddenly offer stock from a company they normally had no dealings with.
prices offered to us
* ipod nano 4gb 165
* ipod 30gb black 210
Re:Awesome (Score:3, Interesting)
Scratchable screens - Yes, because all cell phone manufacturers and manufactuerers of other DAPs use completely unscratchable screens. Dude, learn how to take care of your things. I have a 3rd gen iPod and the screen is gorgeous still because I value it, and make sure I take care of it. It ain't hard. Take personal responsibility.
Faulty earjacks - yes, the earphone jacks are built to have their solder joints break on purpose. I'm sure it has nothing to do with tons of pressure being applied to the jack by pushing down or pulling sideways on the headphone jack very hard. Nothing at all. Again - Dude, learn how to take care of your things.
Sealed in batteries - for which there is a very inexpensive battery replacement program, which, at $70 nets you an iPod with a new battery, new case, and new HD, with a 90 day warranty. How many AAA batteries would you have run through in the 300-400 charge cycles of the internal battery? 2 or 3 every 10 hours of playback? Do you have any idea how expensive disposable batteries are over time?
Your arguments are old, clichéd, and well-documented bullshit. Please stop trolling.
Re:look at the contracts... (Score:3, Interesting)
If you unlock your iPhone and don't use it on the contracted provider, then Apple loses that money.
So yeah, the unlocking has likely hurt Apple's business model.
Re:may not be wireless (Score:5, Interesting)
It would conceivably allow Apple to produce an iPod with wireless like capabilities for sharing tunes and "squirting the social" (a la Zune), but not necessarily introduce the complexity of wireless and browsers and skype and so on. With Kleer, each iPod would be a broadcasting station and multiple wireless listeners could listen to the same iPod simultaneously. This would also figure in with the rumoured iPod "kiosks" that are said to be going up at Starbucks for selling iTunes to patrons.
I find it kind of believable because the technology is bleeding edge (typical Apple), it would instantly turn iPods into the highest quality audio devices out there (also typical Apple), and make it possible to do all those social things that were the Zune's only real innovation ("the social"), without all the DRM and legal complications. It's such a perfect solution, that if Apple doesn't use this technology or something very similar, the next Zune could run rings around them just by implementing it.
This is all wild rumour at this point however.
Have analysts ever been correct... (Score:3, Interesting)