Apple Is Making a 7th-Gen iPod Touch and New iPads, Says Report (macrumors.com) 72
Four new iPad models and a 7th-generation iPod Touch have been found in upcoming iOS 12.2, and seven new iPad models were discovered in the Eurasian Economic Commission Database, reports MacRumors. From the report: Developer Steven Troughton-Smith speculates that the iPad model numbers could be new iPad mini devices, which would be in line with rumors suggesting a new iPad mini 5 is in the works. According to Troughton-Smith, none of the iPads have Face ID, which is what we would expect as a new iPad mini is likely to be positioned as an affordable, lower-end device. There's also a reference to "iPod 9,1," which does not match up with any known iPod touch devices, suggesting it is a new next-generation model. The current sixth-generation iPod touch is "iPod 7,1," for reference. The iPod listed in iOS 12.2 does not appear to have Face ID or Touch ID, which is in line with the current iPod touch.
Previous rumors have indeed suggested Apple is working on a 7th-generation iPod touch, an iPad mini 5, and a new version of the lower-cost 9.7-inch iPad, which may actually be upgraded to 10 inches in its next iteration. There's been mixed information about what to expect from an iPad mini update. A case leak suggested a vertical camera and quad speakers, but a photo of an unreleased iPad mini, which could be the new iPad mini, featured an older A9 processor and a design that's similar to the fourth-generation iPad mini.
Previous rumors have indeed suggested Apple is working on a 7th-generation iPod touch, an iPad mini 5, and a new version of the lower-cost 9.7-inch iPad, which may actually be upgraded to 10 inches in its next iteration. There's been mixed information about what to expect from an iPad mini update. A case leak suggested a vertical camera and quad speakers, but a photo of an unreleased iPad mini, which could be the new iPad mini, featured an older A9 processor and a design that's similar to the fourth-generation iPad mini.
Oh wow (Score:1, Interesting)
Seriously. I thought Apple was going to completely drop out of the market. But colour me surprised when I saw this this PR release (oops.. I mean rumour).
Out of curiosity, how many editors at Slashdot now own Apple shares?
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All wishful thinking by an ignorant hater. You are perhaps confused by Microsoft serially abandoning the MP3 player and telephone markets with Zune and Windows mobile? Or is it the almost inexistent profits from Android tablets and generic MP3 players?
Apple continues to make money off of both the iPod and the tablet markets and will, as is their custom, update these markets so that they do not have to keep producing the older AXX CPUs in these devices and so they stay a generation or three behind the most r
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The worlds biggest company, makes all its money from selling less products, Even ones like the iPod Touch and iPads which are in general iPhones without the phone or iPhones in a bigger case.
Sure Apple drops product lines in the past, but that is only after they have a replacement that they want to sell.
iPod touches are popular with kids, where their parents won't buy them wicked expensive iPhones, but they want access to the Apple App store where still they have a selection of better quality apps.
iPads are
All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:3)
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Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
Yeah, because recompressing (bluetooth intrinsic compression) an already compressed audio signal (99% of the music out there) is somehow better. Except it isn't, but don't let that get in the way of the marketing hype and fanboys talk.
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Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
Yeah, because recompressing (bluetooth intrinsic compression) an already compressed audio signal (99% of the music out there) is somehow better. Except it isn't, but don't let that get in the way of the marketing hype and fanboys talk.
... and let's not forget that corded cheap ass headphones and earbuds deliver such fantastic, near concert quality, audio.
Re: All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:3, Informative)
Like the ones included with every iPhone?
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Like the ones included with every iPhone?
... and every Android phone, every Windows phone, every other 'smart phone' out there. I don't have a dog in your asinine Apple vs Android pissing contest, they are both good systems and making a religion out of either one is idiotic. My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid. The real question is not sound quality, it is whether or not you are willing to tr
Re: All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:4, Informative)
My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid.
And your point was wrong. First, you're not forced to continue to use the convenience earbuds included with the device. The whole point of using a stereo miniplug is compatibility. You don't even understand the argument. Second, you're wrong anyway. The recompression is bad enough that you can hear the difference even on crappy headphones. Third, you can use either a wire or bluetooth to connect to a stereo system as well, where headphones don't come into play. The headphones are actually irrelevant to the argument! You are literally wrong in every way in which it is possible to be wrong.
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If you're using proper Bluetooth Headphones and sources there is no recompression, it's just AAC all the way down.
A "proper" source is the one I find. Most of my media doesn't have AAC audio, that won't help you play a MP3 for example. I'm not going to re-buy all my music in another format, and I don't have CDs for all of it so I can't re-encode even if I want to. A lot of my CDs were scratched and I had to use nose grease to even get them to rip cleanly, because I've been collecting CDs since before mp3 existed.
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This! I don't agree with you often, but a lot of people utterly fail to realise that the audio signatures introduced by compression are completely different than those introduced by cheap drivers and that you can hear the results regardless of what you have on your head.
Furthermore the inability to create perfectly clean bass (for example) is far less offensive than a compression artifact garbling up voice and transients.
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I like the cord. I hate the batteries. The headphone with a plug fits into every device I own, ipod, ipad, phone (android and iphone), desktop computer, laptop computer, thunderbolt breakout box, automobile stereo, television, and Roku remote control. Also some older stuff I don't use anymore.
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Yes but there is no rule that says you have to use cheap ass earbuds. I take a lot of flights and I don't mind dragging along my expensive ass noise canceling super oral head set..
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Let's also not forget that there are a plethora of very good high end headphones out there available for purchase for those that prize better fidelity listening....many of them still corded.
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You can take my floppy when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!
My floppy was 8" once, now it's 3.5". It's harder now, and how you use it is what counts.
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Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
That's Captain Jack Sparrow, if you please, sir ... and as for dying, I've been there, done that, and quite frankly I did not care for the experience.
Re:All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:5, Insightful)
I would tentatively suggest that a 3.5mm jack that does not need to be charged is always going to be superior to a bluetooth dongle that does.
Re: All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:2)
I will suggest you learn the difference between a chord and a cord.
Metal Fatigue? (Score:5, Insightful)
Now if only I could say the same about USB micro B connectors; those seem to be designed to fail after a few hundred uses...
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I suspect that the smartphone wears out most of it's parts and gets shoved into a landfill long before the headphone jack wears out.
Re:All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:5, Funny)
Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
We could describe you the same way, but it would be unfair to assume that nobody is using you. For example, Apple is using you as a useful idiot.
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Wireless is not automatically better. Many problems with Bluetooth. While I agree that theoretically one can do a lot better than Bluetooth most companies won't bother and will stick to what everyone else uses.
Batteries are the biggest problem for me, and the fact that most of the stuff I use a headphone for also has a jack. Jumping to Bluetooth is not about being better but is about forcing customers to buy new products and peripherals and charging pads and whatnot. We still don't have a functional way
In John Travolta's Voice (Score:1)
I want to take the Jack... off...
Re:All I ask for is a headphone jack (Score:4, Interesting)
What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
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What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
I hope so, having one charger for the laptop, phone and tablet would be nice.
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Can someone explain males with hyphenated names for me please?
I thought this was a feminist thing, but now guys are doing this too?
No, it's a snobby 19th century upper class thing.
Quad Records (Score:2)
A case leak suggested a vertical camera and quad speakers
Apple is bringing back quadraphonic sound?! Guess they figured out how to get us to buy the White Album again...
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The hell with that....
Dark Side of the Moon baby!!!
Yep..the original Alan Parsons quad mix of DSOTM!!! [quadraphonicquad.com]
If you want an iPod... (Score:2)