“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/
