Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod 866
JSM writes to tell us that Apple released a new version of their popular iPod music player today that boasts, among other things, an iPhone-like touch screen and Wi-Fi capabilities. "The iPod Touch will feature the Safari Internet browser and, like the iPhone, play YouTube videos. Apple also announced a new version of its iTunes music store that will allow users to buy songs wirelessly. iTunes will also sell customizable 99-cent ringtones for the iPhone."
Take That (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Take That (Score:5, Funny)
(Sorry, sorry)
Here's an idea! (Score:5, Funny)
meh. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here's an idea! (Score:4, Funny)
There you go (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here's an idea! (Score:5, Funny)
AND A PORTABLE INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE! OMG!!!!!!!1111 lim(x->0,sin(x)/x)
(Someone link the Maddox piece)
Re:current round-up (Score:5, Funny)
(I bought a 4 GB refurb model last week for $399. However, that does not qualify me for a shirt.)
Re:Not impressed with the new Fat Nano (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not update the official ipod site? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:4GB iPhone on sale for $299 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not update the official ipod site? (Score:2, Funny)
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It looks like an iPhone. (Score:5, Funny)
Great. - I've always said something like this: one day they'll build cell phones that can do nearly everything except making a phone call, and now they did it. I'm speechless.
Re:Newton Redo (Score:4, Funny)
Not only can it sync with outlook but it also formats your new iMac and installs Windows XP SP2.
Apple has realized that MS products are so superb in the areas of efficiency and user friendliness and are focusing on integrating their entire product line-up with whatever products Microsoft has to offer.
As far as other apps it can run, it can crash regularly on MS Word, Excel, and garble up its slideshows so they look like powerpoint, so Microsoft noobs can feel right at home with it.
Re:Have they started with the subsidizing? (Score:2, Funny)
It doesn't matter what it costed them, it matters what people payed them.
Talkeding with you is more pleasuring than correcteding my 6-year old.
Re:so close.. needs more GB (Score:4, Funny)
No camera, either. That's a heck of a loss.
Guess Apple has to leave people some reason to buy an iPhone instead.
Re:iTouch = loss of functionality? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:4GB iPhone on sale for $299 (Score:2, Funny)
For early adopters: Apple Screwed You So Now What [tuaw.com]
The comments there are filled with people who think early adopters pissed off about this are whining, but seriously... COME ON NOW! I bought my 4Gb iPhone a month ago, and would not really consider myself an extreme early adopter. If the price went down $50 or went down this much six months from now, obviously I wouldn't have reason to complain at all, but $200 just 30 days after I bought it? Not cool at all. If it were less that 14 I could've returned mine today, paid a nominal restocking fee, and left the store with an 8Gb for less than I originally paid for my 4Gb. Seriously this sucks.
I know /.'s not the best venue for me to vent my anger about this, but you know. Everybody else is off-topic, why can't I be once in a while?/p.
Re:Take That (Score:3, Funny)
Re:4GB iPhone on sale for $299 (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, and after years, Cmdr Taco finally has to eat his words about the iPod being lame because it doesn't have wifi.
Re:Will it be able to run the same 3rd party apps. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not impressed with the new Fat Nano (Score:1, Funny)
yah, it would be a great solution with me and the wife, since there's no need for a mic on my end.
Re:Why not update the official ipod site? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All I want for Christmas, or any day before tha (Score:5, Funny)
In other words -- get over it already. You're not unique or interesting because you developed a filing system in your head that's less intuitive for 99.9% of the rest of the world.
Easy Question: Freud (Score:3, Funny)
I don't understand the impetus behind removing all tactile controls from a portable audio player.
Oh, it makes perfect sense. iPod Touch is like a slut. You watch, and keep watching, and before you know it you want to reach out and touch it for yourself. So finally it's yours, all yours to gaze and touch as much as you want. And it's great at first, when everything is new and fresh. But as you constantly touch and slobber all over it, it gets worn and dirty. You try to protect it or make it look better by putting on some accessories (make up) but it really does the trick. Having lost attention to it, it becomes far easier to lose... and eventually it is lost.
But that's ok, because by then the iPod Rub will have come out and be even more slutty than the iPod Touch.
Re:Here's an idea! (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's genious. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:argh (Score:2, Funny)
At my current employer, some employees were recently given awards for their technical training sessions at the company's technology forum. The 2nd and 3rd place winners won Zunes. What an insult! Of course, this company has been treating us like crap a lot lately anyway, with all the layoffs and such.
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Re:One key feature missing... (Score:5, Funny)
You could record your side of the conversation on your computer before calling somebody, put it on your iPod as an MP3, and then play it back for your friend via VOIP! Just leave a lot of pauses, they'll never know the difference...
Re:It looks like an iPhone. (Score:5, Funny)
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What about Coffee? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about Coffee? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Take That (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No, it's genious. (Score:4, Funny)