RSSSan Francisco event will unveil new iPods
By Tim Conneally | Published September 3, 2008, 11:22 AM
Yesterday Apple distributed conspicuously designed invitations to an event on September 9, widely expected to be the third annual iPod refresh event.
While the event hasn't received an official moniker yet, San Francisco has played host to Apple's iPod announcements for the last...three...Septembers. This year's announcement looks like an iPod screen that says "Playing Soon: Lets Rock."
The event ends up being something of a "back to school" fashion show, displaying the year's line of products tied together with partnership and service upgrade announcements. Given Apple's proclivity for giving iPods away to college students, the event does appear well-timed.
Naturally, analysts have already placed their bets on which changes they expect, including: an iTunes subscription service (a la Rhapsody and Napster), a redesigned iPod Nano with a significantly larger screen, and a drop in price that would affect the entire line.
A redesigned iPod nano has been a hot rumor recently, thanks to Kevin Rose of Digg, who leaked a photo purported to be the device. This has also been bolstered by "leaked" images of a third-party silicon sleeve with a similar profile.
Auto manufacters do the 2-4-8 scheme. Every 2 years they change the interior slightly or all together. Every 4 years they make exterior body changes and every 8 years a new model comes out.
It's still just an average sounding, hard to control MP3 player. Sometimes the A-B-C scroll doesn't come up at all on two of my iPods. With 15,000 songs and no alpha popup, it sucks badly. Other times it comes up when you don't want it to and goes way past where you want to go just as you are zeroing in on the song you want to hear.
What a couple of POS's.
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I just checked out the new design. This does me no good as my iPod as always hidden away and directly controlled by my car and spa stereo and when I go on a plane, I bring the smaller and better sounding Sansa.
Both of my DS's already have the virtual iPod scroll ring on the touch screen like those all touch widescreen iPod versions, this looks just like it except the one for the DS is free and split between two screens. Apple put a stop to the free virtual iPod software because they want to release a cartridge with a MicroSD as a virtual iPod for the DS.
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How many times can apple go to the ipod money tree? Can the market really accept more versions of an iPod. Seems like a new one comes out at every show. The "leaked images" department was hard at work at apple.
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Every year just like car makers.
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Auto manufactures are typically every 4 years.
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