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Apple’s new line of iPods…

I know at least one person who's not completely happy with the new iPod announcements. I have to agree at least in part, that the new iPods are not all that exciting. iPod Touch is really the only revolutionary product here, if you consider iPhone to be a completely different product category.

Here I think of all the announcements:

  1. iPod Shuffle - Practically nothing new and worth mentioning at all.
  2. iPod Nano - It's FAT. I really don't like the new look. Although I bet once I've held on in person, I'd be willing to put up with the new form factor. It is even slimmer and overall smaller than the current Nanos. The proportion of the click wheel to the width of the device is just... ugly. I wish they could've worked a little harder and done something else. I was really hoping for an iPod Nano-Touch type of device here. It's still not a bad iPod, just underwhelming.
  3. iPod Classic - Same ol' same ol' with bigger hard drive. I do find it funny that the iPod Classic's hard drive is bigger than some of my friend's computer hard drive. Nothing new, nothing exciting.
  4. iPod Touch - Great device, but it's not really that fresh since it's just a stripped down iPhone. Like I said, I rather wished they would integrate Nano + Touch into some device that's in between.

I'm sure Apple will still sell a ton of them, because no other MP3 player in the market has near the media dominance. The surprise to me was the $200 price drop on the iPhone. I promptly went out and got one, 2-year contract be damned. At $399 it's a very reasonably priced PDA phone, in fact, one of the most feature-rich and well priced phone you can get. I guess I'll put up with AT&T for another 2 years at least.

Wireless iTunes Music Store... In a way it's a long time coming, but I wonder how many times I'll be wondering around in middle of nowhere just wanting to buy a new song?

Although I wouldn't go so far as saying everything was "crappy"... I wasn't extremely impressed either.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pm and is filed under Tech Gone Wild. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Apple’s new line of iPods…”

  1. ayn Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 9:08 am

    Yeah, if I were on AT&T I would get an iPhone too. I might get the 160GB anyway coz i do want to have all my music in lossless with me at all time. I still want a 160GB Touch, damnit!

  2. steve Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    I thought that the iPod Touch was either going to be a touchscreen iPod with the size somewhere between the Nano or the iPhone with flash memory storage.

    Or it would've been the same size as the iPhone with a hard drive based storage.

    Being a stripped down iPhone really doesn't give me much in the sense of value proposition. If the iPhone price didn't drop by $200, I'm not sure I would have any of the new iPod line at all right now.

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