“A person with a strong track record in predicting Apple’s upcoming product launches said that the iPod maker experienced technical problems with the cameras months ago,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider. “The person said that it was uncertain whether the new hardware, which has been widely expected to debut at Wednesday’s ‘Only rock and roll’ media-centric event, would make the cut for early September.”
Hughes reports, “It is unclear whether the debut of iPods with cameras has been scrapped from the Sept. 9 event entirely, or if the products will simply not be available for sale for some time after an unveiling.”
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I hope that Apple gets its act together and finally puts an HD radio receiver in the iPod. The Zune will soon have an HD receiver in it.
And so the backpedaling begins.
“It was going to have a camera–really! But there’s some technical difficulty, which doesn’t appear to happen with the iPhone but does with the iPod touch. So therefore, it won’t be in this rev but it was planned to be in this revision. Really! Believe me!”