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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17How about instead, "No rumors on a news site"? Too much to ask? I have no problems with rumors. No problems discussing rumors. I do have a problem with rumors being reported as news. Not only does it generate endless amounts of hype, it generates geniuine dis-interest and polarizes the community. And when the rumor is found to be a hoax or doesn't live up to hype, everyone screams about it.
Rumors aren't news. That's where it should end. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Is "Newton" really that bad of a name?
ps. iPad sounds like something a tampon manufacturer would use, iTab a medicine manufacturer. - breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Oi vey, here we go again.
- RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Rumour has it that tomorrow is just going to be another day..
- simonbarratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No UMPC/Origami appears to be attempting to compete with the Nokia 770! Agree that the media are trying to spin something out of nothing though.
- manoftheisland, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Apple doenst try and do alot of things with one product... they just try to do a few VERY VERY WELL...
- roadblock83, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just announce the video ipod already so i can go one with my life!
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"The problem really isn't Digg itself, it's the [guys] who Digg any [] rumor that they see"
The same can be said of any company or idea; Linux, Microsoft, Google, ad nauseum. The reason I didn't point out a company in my post is because it shouldn't come down to company lines. If it's not news, it's not news. Period. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13"This is a competitor for the Archos, and Creative Media Centre. It's not trying to compete with UMPC/Origami."
They're not "trying" to compete with Archos or Creative either. "Compete" implies Apple is getting some level of challenge from them. - zootm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. I don't see this nonsense that people are spewing comparing Origami to bloody iPods. It seems about as relevant as "Will Sun's new server system be the next Blackberry?", or "Will Python development ever truly replace the internet?". Just nonsense.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"I don't know about you, but this convinces me to wait for a flash-based video player. Like my psp with the gig memory stick."
1GB is not enough memory for video and music for me....I'd have to micro-manage my music collection on a daily basis. how is this a solution? - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Rumors are unconfirmed whispers - basically people saying based on the past and some strange memory market shift in the east, i think.... or industry anaylists say.... This is what is good about digg - it is user based - so if rumors get dugg posted by NEWS SITES or even apple rumor/news sites - then so be it - dont just bitch about news you dont want to see on the front page.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"I would pay almost any price for this new video ipod "
your SOUL perhaps? (evil laugh) - waiwai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It will never be like Origami. The original iPod removed a lot of features commonly found on MP3 players when it came out. I had one of those RipFlash players, for example, with music quality recording that came out years before iPod. Also radio, removable battery, etc..
Similarly, any new iPod will just focus on very few things. Techies have a hard time swallowing it, but the majority of people don't want a device that does everything if that makes the device more complex. This sums up the Origami exactly. - ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I want it to have a gazillion hours of batter life and a billion teras of memory with a 52" HD OLED flexible touch screen with the brightness of exactly 53.342 suns that have enough power to melt faces when in the hold position.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Apple doenst try and do alot of things with one product... they just try to do a few VERY VERY WELL..."
Concepts of RISC applied to all of their products? - Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Fantastic! To products competing head-to-head for a market that doesn't exist.
Too big to be a PDA.
To small to be a laptop.
To expensive to be a splurge.
Dead by the end of the year. - Virtualtaco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The idea of a touchscreen ipod is not important... pretty much fluff... viewing movies on the go is niche. Taking movies with you to view normally is the big winner.
The real question is will the ipod have A/V connections.
That'd be news. - gerkin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4OMG .. enough already? How many "Apple to release ____" stories have made the front page. STOP DIGGING THESE PEOPLE. WE WANT NEWS, NOT SPECULATION. no digg.
- Magnitude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yensed:
Please learn how to spell or, alternatively, press the 'Check Spelling' button. - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, now people are speculating about the model options for a product that doesn't exist?
Come on people, the entire idea of this touchscreen iPod is just a guess. Nobody knows for certain if Apple will ever release such a product, and if they do, it might not happen for years. So to speculate about model options is just silly.
Take the Video iPod for example. People have been saying that thing was coming any-day-now since the original Ipod came out, but it took YEARS. People jumped the gun over and over and over.
Yes, I realize Apple has a patent on this. That is meaningless; companies patent things even if they don't intend to make products out of it, in case another company tries to make a product. They also patent stuff when they get the idea, even if they are many years from implementation. Wouldn't it suck to get an idea that would take years to develop, but then by the time it is ready, somebody else has patented it?
Personally, I don't see a touchscreen model as practical. Scratches and fingerprints, that's all I have to say. - ForbesBingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing is, with a bigger screen to the iPod, Apple have options, and Mr. Jobs has been very vocal in his appreciation for having options.
These 'options' could include Apple dropping in the requisite functionality to go PDA, should they so wish.
It's oft been said that the processors in the iPods are overkill in some respects, given the chores they're tasked to accomplish... - samuraishow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Believe it when you see it.
- kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1solid state.. as opposed to using vacuum tubes?
haha i know its talking about hard disks, it just sounds funny - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So...do we REALY have 2 full weeks of these annoying "Apple might do this" posts?
- Nerys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I would pay almost any price for this new video ipod if it has the 4+ inch screen some say it does and 12gb of flash memory if only it supported USB mass storage for the transfer of VIDEO files to be PLAYED on the ipod and it culd natively play divx mp4 and mpeg1 formats and itunes NOT required.
till then no thanks
Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/ - iiftmlis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, my issue with the concept of the touchscreen is this. My 3G ipod is pre-clickwheel. When a friend of mine got a later iPod with a click wheel I immediately saw its superiority in that it has tactile feedback. Although the touch wheel seems cool at first, you quickly realize that it's a pain how easy it is to activate the puttons. I'm frequently advancing to the next track or jumping to the beginning on the track just because I picked the iPod up. I've got to keep it locked all the time to prevent those inadvertant clicks - which means everytime I want to change anything I've got to unlock-relock.
Anyway, I've been looking forward to one day upgrading to a bigger iPod with the click wheel but now, if the speculation is correct, the new interface will be even worse than the touch wheel in that there will be no tactile feedback at all. Al least with the touchwheel you could feel where the wheel and buttons where. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Newton" is from the pre-iCEO Jobs era (~1997). I don't think Steve would be too keen on using it.
- hadem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The next iPod better top 100GBs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What's up with those people who sign their comments? Like they're all important enough that we need to know their name...psh.
- kolop1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2 This topic has been on the front page about 30 times in the past two months. Why cant people wait and see what apple is going to do? Seeing this topic over and over and over again make the front page is lame.
- gumpy5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it's going to be primarily a video player, they would definitely need more than 12gb, that's nothing.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I love the comments where people are like "I want this NOW" or "Gimme gimme gimme gimme" or even "I want it to have 40 hours of battery life and a million gigs of memory and a 15" touch screen with the brightness of the sun."
As I read these comments I slowly lose faith in my country and even the world as I realize that people are just freaking consumer whores. I can't wait to see you people cry when yet another hyped up rumor is found to be just that -- a rumor. - jizzmaster0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've posted this a couple of times on another forum, but the additional feature I'd love to see most on a touchscreen iPod would be Dashboard. I think it would be very helpful to have such an application and if you could sync your widget preferences from your desktop down to this, it would involve almost no typing to use.
Then they'd either need to integrate Wifi and/or bluetooth or have it available as a dock-connector accessory (probably the preferred route to go so people who wouldn't use this wouldn't need to pay for it).
I'd also like to see them make the basic PIM apps a bit more polished. I use the Addressbook and Calendar apps a lot on mine, but it'd be nice if they'd color code entries, have better sorting options, etc. like in the desktop app. This has always kind of perplexed me since Apple usually tries to implement a little, but implement it well. In this regard, the PIM apps have fallen a little short IMO.
Of course, probably not a lot of people care and I may be the only one who's trying to actually use these apps regularly. - penguindude15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i am thinking a 100 gig. Only if they come out with the movie store. About 300 movies on one Ipod then.
- Elranzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mac iBook, MacBook Solo, 12" MacBook Pro... whatever you wanna call it... I'm waiting for some kinda 12" model. I'd love a MacBook Pro myself but I need something that's actually portable.
- jizzmaster0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm not concerned. First, I have fingerprints all over my Treo, Archos AV-500, PSP, etc. and once that screen is on I can't see them. Second, recently a company came out with a product that should be able to prevent scratching and fingerprints from forming on surfaces like those on an iPod. I would hope Apple would use that product on their devices if it truly lives up to the hype.
- ryanst24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1here's my one and only problem with a touchscreen ipod...marks on the screen. I think most of us have used a touchscreen of some kind before and noticed that the most touched areas tend to get worn in. It would be nice if there was a way to eliminate this, but I have a nice touchscreen remote that I only use for my DVD player and in less than a year the screen is dull in places because of use. Just my thoughts
- Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're right. God forbid I ever not have my entire media collection available at all times so that it can pacify me from horrors of my couch potato reality.
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For the record, I think they're talking about two twelve gig sticks in it, one on a daughterboard, or something like that. I think that might be really expensive though. Eh, who knows. The ipod is fine how it is now, maybe a longer battery.
Also, it would be Macpad, and I'm not expecting that to come out until the move all their products to the new intel chip, to avoid all confusion. Plus photoshop isn't universal yet, they wouldn't intro something like that into leopard (maybe even after that), why would they come out with a tablet version of their os and brand new hardware to go with it? Gah, sidenote. - Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For a laugh, I remembered this from earlier this year:
"Hi, I'm Steve and welcome to my weekly podcast, Super-Secret Apple Rumors." (huge laughs) "I've got some pretty good sources inside Apple, and the next iPod is going to be HUGE, an 8-pounder with a 10-inch screen ... See you next week." -- from engadget transcript of Steve Jobs during January 2006 keynote - iiftmlis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn. I'm actually hoping they bump up the memory to 80 or 100gb. I've been holding on to my 3G, 40gb iPod because a 50% in capacity doesn't seem like enough. Lately, with podcasts and all, my 40gigs is feeling a little tight.
- GrideEdub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The thing thats successful about the ipod(besides its looks) is the f-ing scroll wheel. Apple realizes this and gonna capatilize and take over if they can release an intuitive touchscreen style navigation(very much unlike the orogami, or any other touchscreen yet available).
- Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By sticking a touchpad on an iPod, there's a slight interface barrier that has been removed. Operation on the current batch of iPods all involves the click wheel. While this is great for starting up music and videos, it was clunky for the little PDA like apps and games that also come on the iPod.
With a touchscreen, there's a little more of a nudge to an iPod becoming more like a PDA. And with people getting Linux to boot on iPods, you get lots of fun involved there. Even then, there's no idea what Apple could put on it themselves.
As far as "compact flash", I've always considered that a misnomer since they're rather bulky when compared to the device they're being used in. I'm guessing it just means 8-12 gigs of flash ram and the journalist thinks compact flash is the same. A compact flash slot would "ruin" the tight design of an iPod.
But of course, this is all speculation and I'm late for lunch. - karmakazi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like Apple products but this is getting out of hand... this is speculation on speculation. This article offers nothing new
- homestar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmm.. I'm not so sure about the flash drive thing. 12gb isn't really enough space to store videos. Some videos, but not nearly enough. Apple will stick with hard-drive based ones, for now. Maybe in the future we'll see the iPod line switch completely to flash.
Now an 8-12gb Nano is a different story. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'll buy one once they come out. But 12 gigs of solid s tate memory is nothing. I already have a 60 gig ipod filled with recorded TV. I would gladly buy a 60 gig one if they made it a tad thinner though. Make one come to me Apple. I beg.
- punkguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great. I get to buy another iPod, after just spending $300 on an iPod nano. - Nontheless, very cool, especially for the flash memory 8 and 12 GB versions.
- redrighthand, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It'll never happen
- MateyO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"there's new speculation about this mystical product every day since what, november? october?"
Which year? -
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