“If you want to know what the next iPod will look like, go to Apple.com and watch the demo for the coming iPhone,” Eric Benderoff writes for The Chicago Tribune.
Benderoff writes, “Since Steve Jobs earlier this month introduced the iPhone, which goes on sale in June from Cingular Wireless, much has been said and written about how revolutionary it will be. That’s all well and good, but one aspect has been overlooked: How will this impact the iPod?”
“The answer is, quite a bit,” Benderoff writes. “Already, Apple executives are calling the iPhone the best iPod the company has built. Do you think all that really cool technology, particularly the touch screen, only will be used on a phone that starts at $500?”
Benderoff writes, “Hardly. Put me on the record as saying you’ll see a touch-screen iPod this fall, a few months after the buzz of the iPhone launch settles and a few months before the key holiday sales season kicks in.”
“Apple cares about being an innovator, as well as protecting its bread-and-butter product line, so it would behoove Jobs to include iPhone’s nifty new features in his top-of-the-line video-playing iPod,” Benderoff writes. “Before introducing the iPhone, speculation was rampant that Apple was working on a wide-screen version of the iPod, with touch controls. The speculation was right, but the product was wrong: That’s what the iPhone looks like. But so will the next iPod. And I would expect a bigger screen that will be sharper than the iPhone.”
Full article here.
iPhone’s wireless widescreen iPod demo: http://www.apple.com/iphone/ipod/
hopefully soon
> When will Apple’s 6G widescreen multi-touch iPod debut?
The obvious: Tonight!
Zune Tang is doomed!
ooh article link is down…
I hope the rumours of the new iPod are true. It would hold me over until the iphone’s released here.
Why would Apple wait so long? Everyone knows what the new iPod will look like and that includes the competition. Apple needs to get this out soon so as not to allow others 7 months to beat them to the punch.
Seems to me that it could just as easily be launched successfully well in advance of the phone.
Yea Yea Yea Yellow Submarine iPod Beatle Songs on limeted Widescrene iPod will sell Millions before Superbowl game is over tonight! All Babybomers will go nuts! Apple will get millions of these widescreen iPods out into the market and will be huge exposure for the up comming iPhone release iPhone then will be able to sell 20 Million this year Yea Yea Yea
Look for an April release. This is the grads, dads and moms quarter. It ranks right behind back to school and Christmas as reasons to buy someone else a gift.
I think guy has it about right. Unfortunately it’s means Apple’s going to take a bath on iPod sales until then, but the FCC licensing thing really made them let the cat out of the bag a lot earlier than they would normally like.
This is the probable cause of Apple’s revenue warnings for the next quarter in their recent financial report.
However, there should be considerable back demand pumped up by then, and Apple could make it all back in the 4th quarter.
They just have to be able to make the damn things in big enough quantities.
Gaaaahhh!
“I think that THIS guy has it about right…”
MW: ‘many’ as in
“Many are the speeling errors…”
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Is that iBread and Apple butter?
Watch the Apple commercial during the Superbowl.
It’s the Beatle’s alright…on a touchscreen ipod
Oh !@#$%…
Apple BETTER NOT! But as like as I still have my doubts…
Just wait until the superior Zune Phone debuts by the end of this year. It will blow (NOT squirt) all of CrApple’s petty products out of the water! Score another one for Microsoft.
Your potential. Our passion.
Sound a bit jealous there, eh Tang?
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The Tang must die.
I found Zune Tang, or a close relative, pushing the Zune
Mmmmmm…. iBread. Apple butter.
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My credit card is hungry and waiting.
UK Fanboy’s got it right. S,he would buy a touchscreen iPod tomorrow to tide them over until June. I would bet millions are in the same category.
Release it soon!
Tonight? Not likely.
The screen will be larger. A 4″ screen to be exact. The screen is a variant of the iPhone screen, but will be much closer to a true 16:9 ratio (albiet missing it by just a tad).
But the lenth will be slightly shorter than the iPhone, as it has no proximaty sensor, mic, speaker or camera like the iPhone does.
40 GB and 100 GB hard drives. WiFi? Probably not… Next 6.5G iPod, probably so.
Honestly, I’m thinking they’ll make it a Multi-Touch widescreen iPod with an onscreen click wheel. Aka, it </b>won’t</b> be exactly like the iPhone, other than the fact that it is a touch screen and widescreen, but will be essentially the same thing.
The iPhone really gives off some significant iPod vibes; The handset/headphone jack, “wake/sleep” switch, and the dock connector (which is more about keeping standards than about just iPod- for which I applaud anyway).
I’m thinking a 30/40 GB model for $299 and an 80/100 GB model for $399. There will definitely be a special event for this, not some lame commercial.
As for the Beatles, what have they EVER done for Apple? I’m sorry, but creating a shatload of legal troubles and whining about online music for years does not scream the words “exclusive iPod” to me.
To further Steven’s idea regarding the size of the iPod, I feel like they might not break the form factor that the iPod has had since 2001.
Superbowl add …..its going to be a award winning add…..all the news shows will replay it ….at the end of the add its going to say …. oh!!! …. “ONE MORE THING..Feb 15 2007” Then All the media can hipe it for 10 Days Free….. way to go Steve
Remember . at the end of the last Key Note??? . There was not the one more thing
Shut up you old analytical geezers! Whatever happened to senseless fun?
Scratchs and finger prints anyone?
What’s with the Superbowl ad talk? There’s like two or three people that checked the list of companies running Superbowl commercials and Apple wasn’t even on it.
Personally, I plan on buying a widescreen mutli-touch iPod as soon as it’s released, as well as an iPhone. They’re really completely seperate devices. An iPhone is lots of stuff, plus a Nano, but 8 gigs isn’t going to give you that much video, especially if you want music on there to. Maybe I’m the only person out there who will buy both, I doubt it. I bet lots of people will, and there’ll also be lots of people who JUST want the video iPod. There’s no reason not to release the full video iPod ASAP, in my opinion.
I think there is going to be a separate iPod, and sooner than the iPhone rather than later. It is way past time for it…a release now will not take away from the iPhone as much. Also agree that the hard drive size limit on the iPhone will keep it more as a different device. I am now wishing I got bigger than the 30 gigger. The new iPod will have wifi, since it is in the iPhone, and also, just to shut up Zune Tang, if for no other reason. Anyone considering the Zune has to only touch its fisher price plastic pretend click wheel button and then the iPods, and their decision is instantly made. I love the click wheel and hope to see a form of it in multitouch, but I am interested in software specifically places controls for games in the iPod as a possible alternative. Their is a slice of small pie out there for more games, as the couple I have bought are really cool graphic and soundwise.
Screw the touch-screen iPod. It’s as bad as all those other failed interfaces on every other iPod wanna-be. Remember why we love the iPod? It’s the interface. Take away the scroll wheel, and the thing becomes harder for many people to use. Me? I leave the thing on shuffle most of the time, but click forward to tracks I want to hear (or back to ones I want to listen to again) without looking at the device, especially when snowboarding. How would I do that without buttons? Even the phone concept in the iPhone is screwed up by multi-touch (but forgiven for the internet communication features). I don’t have an iPod with video. It doesn’t add anything for me. And if they screw up the iPod concept by making it harder to use, I can’t imagine buying a new one. Ever. btw, I’m still using a 5GB first-gen, original battery, and a 30GB 3rd-gen (one in each car), and a 1st-gen nano. There are a lot of us using iPods for music and podcasts only. Give us more battery life, and don’t mess up the interface, and maybe I’ll buy again one day, but not for video, and not if it’s multi-touch.
The one advancement I might accept? Make the control wheel on the full-size iPod the size of the nano’s (after all, that’s all the larger it needs to be), and either reduce device size, or increase screen size.
Technology should improve function more than flair, or the device will fail in the market. Like the Zune and virtually every other mp3 player.
Oh, and my ‘one more thing’? Put a shuffle on-off button on the outside of the device (all music players). Ever get to a song by a band you suddenly find yourself in the mood for? Rather than have to pull the thing out, unlock it, advance to the shuffle menu setting, and change it (and later change it back), there should be a simple button or switch like the hold switch to turn shuffling on and off. That’s the only feature I’ve envied on non-Apple devices.
I really would really like a new interface. Tiger it up a bit.
Too linear and 2D.
Wish I could reach the menu screen instantly rather than the menu button now bringing you back, back, back to the main screen.
Oh yea, no iPod for you!!!!!!!!
Not until September!!!
Along with new Flash based Zunes
<i>”…If you want to know what the next iPod will look like, go to Apple.com and watch the demo for the coming iPhone…”
Wow…what a concept! If you want to know what the next Administration will be like, take a look at the previous one…er, not the latest one. Or vice-versa depending on your political leanings…?
> “</b>won’t</b>”
MDN, now that we can’t do a ‘preview post’, how about letting the software you use do some work besides checking for “Paris Hilton” nicknames and the like. I’m talking about an html tag balancing algorithm – an easy addition that should trap or correct errors such as the above.
The alternative is to set a cookie expiring in say, 10 minutes, that allows a poster to edit a post.
Shove your remarks up your @$$, Mr. Ballmer!
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Grrrilla
“there should be a simple button or switch like the hold switch to turn shuffling on and off.”
There is on my 2G Shuffle, so I don’t know what planet you’re on!
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@ Grrrila,
I wouldn’t worry about the interface you love. I think we’re going to have something like a Nano with a real click-wheelin the lineup for some time yet. You’re right – the tactile feel is important to some users. But don’t discount that similar functionality could be built into, a remote for your snow-baording glove, for instance, or some such other add-on. The phone has a touch screen because the phone *really* needs one. The video iPod does, too.
I went to the apple store online and all of the pictures and links were gone….
Can anyone else report the same thing?
Apple Store working fine for me…
<b>DON’T GET YOUR HOPES UP, GUYS. AFTER ALL, THIS IS ONLY A RUMOR!”
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Hmmm,if I wanted to drum up some viewer hysteria, where would I go…?
I knew nothing would happen!
off topic – but the order status for my new airport extreme shows that it was shipped on Feb 3rd – cool beans
and it’s coming from Shanghai
I don’t think Apple has the interface software and all of the various apps that would be on both the iPhone and new iPod finished yet, which is why it hasn’t been released. Remember, iPhone runs OS X, not some other OS that has been proven in its current form and with the new interface. I’m sure Apple’s working out a variety of bugs, and once those are ironed out, the iPod will be ready to manufacture.
Once the software is finalized, the new iPod will be released. I would expect it in mid-to late April, maybe early May, but definitely before the iPhone is released.
Anyone who is disappointed that Apple did not release the widescreen touchscreen iPod via a Super Bowl ad is crazy. Apple had only about 5 or 6 prototypes of the iPhone at MacWorld less than one month ago. It worked remarkably well, but it was obviously incomplete in terms of software. Usually there are rumors and leaks about the Asian company that has been contracted to start manufacturing new iPods. There have been some about the iPhone, but none about any new iPod.
Apple needs to focus on getting the iPhone released. As the author of this article speculates, it will probably be a few months after the iPhone release that the new widescreen touchscreen iPod will be released. It deserves its own fanfare. In the meantime, Apple’s colorful new shuffles and Apple TV should take up some of the slack while the full-size iPod is forced to languish.
If the stock does drop, it would be an excellent time to buy.
Who cares about the iPhone? BRING ON LEOPARD!
New Macs would be nice. I need more power, Captain.
Um… the iPhone is an iPod.