RSSApple Brings Color to Refreshed iPods
By Nate Mook | Published June 28, 2005, 10:38 AM
Apple has merged its two full-sized iPods, dropping the monochrome version of the popular music player and unveiling a single iPod Color lineup. The 30GB iPod also got the axe, leaving only 20GB and 60GB iterations, complete with ability to view album artwork, photos and playback slideshows.
The new unified iPod Color also brings to the table a new Podcast menu, bookmarking support for resuming a podcast and the ability to display podcast artwork.
"By simplifying our iPod lineup to include 20GB and 60GB models with color screens and the new Podcast menu, iPod and iTunes provide the world's easiest and appealing way to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to Podcasts," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of iPod Product Marketing.
As hard drive capacity continues to increase, Apple is ostensibly pushing users to the larger iPods, which means more space to purchase music and download podcasts. Despite its 300 percent size differential, the $399 USD 60GB iPod is priced only $100 more than the 20GB player at $299 USD.
In addition to the new iPod lineup, Apple introduced an updated U2 Special Edition iPod with color screen and dropped the price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle to only $129 USD.
Both the 20GB and 60GB iPods are immediately available worldwide for both Mac OS X and Windows. iTunes 4.9 is required to take advantage of the new podcast support on the players.
Those with older iPods not ready to upgrade can download the 2005-06-26 iPod Software Updater.
I just bought the 60 Gb ipod photo so I have no worries here.
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|60 gigs huh I want to see something like 600 gigs then we are talking storage
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|Woudn't you know, just my dumb luck!! I just got the 30gb yesterday and now it is no more.
So now what do us smucks do that bought the Photo in confidence that the Ipod was a stable unito?? What a bummer...! Makes me want to go back to my lug around CD player....bah Humbug!
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|I don't see the problem...your 30 GB iPod will still work, and these newer models don't do anything yours can't; the 20 GB model now just includes a color screen as standard.
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|I'd say that is very lucky. I wanted the 30GB version, now I'll just keep my older 15GB because 20GB isn't worth the upgrade cost.
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|I don't know about you, but the just saying the word "pod" kind of creeps me out.
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|This is the worst announcement for Apple yet! They are over due for a new product that is a step in the right direction, not to be confused with the ipod shuffle. =P
They need to make a product that can compete with the Cowon X5 and for $300 (cleverly named iPod Video) LOL. Oh yeah, they were never good at giving the option of getting your moneys worth. . . nevermind
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|People really pay for this? At least bigger is better on the HD size here.
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|I don't get it. Is this a 5G or not. It's pretty much the same thing also. No more 30GB either!
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|It's Apple's secret strategy. They'll randomly add features that are in similarly priced DAPs without making a huge deal out of it. (For example, reasonable battery life for their microdrive players, or in this case, a color screen.) Because of this, people won't accuse them of copying other companies or bowing under pressure.
And when they figure out something that actually *is* new, they'll make a huge hullaboo out of it and everyone will laud them for their brilliance.
Clever, if you ask me.
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