“Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster seems pretty certain that Steve Jobs himself will introduce a new line of iPods next week,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Investors, Munster says, are not likely to be impressed with new iPod nanos, iPod classic and iPod touches re-designed with cameras because ‘as iPod growth slows … the segment becomes less of an investable theme,'” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Poor iPod touch, now even the analysts are forgetting about you! As Elmer-DeWitt rightly points out parenthetically, “That may be true of the classic and the nanos, but sales of iPod touches grew 130% last quarter year over year.”
Elmer-DeWitt continues, “Jobs’ return, however, is likely to be greeted by the Street as ‘a slight positive’ for Apple’s shares — ‘the first public confirmation of Jobs’ health since his return to the company,’ according to Munster. Jobs last appearance at an Apple event was on Oct. 14, 2008.”
Full article here.
On the other hand, Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider, “Analyst Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. released a note to investors Tuesday morning in which he predicted that Jobs will not personally unveil new iPods.”
“Wu, however, believes the keynote will be delivered by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.”
Full article here.
