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Besides the smaller screen real estate, the touch might be better compared to a tablet or netbook — it has many of the same functions (more, in some cases),” Topolsky reports. So you’re not just dropping $229 (8GB), $299 (32GB), or $399 (64GB, also, ouch) on a music and video player — you’re buying into a mini-computer, a video camera, and a game system all with a massive ecosystem.”
Topolsky reports, “If you’re already carrying around a smartphone with the above functions, maybe the iPod touch doesn’t make sense, but for the legions of buyers out there who have yet to make the jump (or are stuck with an outdated handset), this device’s appeal is hard to deny… With the addition of HD video shooting, the new Retina Display, and a faster A4 processor, the touch has just gone from ‘nice to have’ to nearly irresistible.”
Full article here.
One for each of my kids this Christmas.
Why does he say “64 GB, also, ouch”??
it truly is a work of art so how are the video calls gonna be made?
Just got my shipping notification today! Can’t wait!
What part of sold-out do these jokers not understand. If apple is having difficulty selling the product, then the survey may mean something.
Why did munster just include a question on verizon sprint and tmobile combined is as big as verizon. Verizon must really be hurting and trying to find alternative routes to push apple into even hinting on a verizon deal to stop the bleeding. Regardless of what apple does, then next media placements will be about apple definitely releasing an iPhone in January based on analyses like munster. After that, Schumer and his I’ll will chime in. WS at it’s best.
Verizon must be hurting and are trying to bamboozle apple. Verizon is definitely putting their ad dollars to work. How many more of this sophistic analyses will we have to bear with.
My 64 GB iPod touch is in town and on the Fedex truck for delivery TODAY! Two days earlier than the earliest time Apple predicted for delivery.
Nice!
@solid,
Probably because of the price. I am of the opinion, however, that if they sell a bunch of 64GB iPod touches at this price, then it definitely is what the market will bear.
@solid
“Why does he say “64 GB, also, ouch”??”
He’s reacting to the $400 price tag for an iPod. Oh how soon we forget the the original 5GB iPod was $399 also…
Personally, as an iPad owner I have no trouble resisting an iPod touch…
@Jacob: I paid $499, yes Four Hundred and Ninety Nine for the 30 GB iPod from, I don’t remember which year, maybe 2003 or 2004.
This iPod touch is a freaking bargain compared to that.
Because if you think about it. Most competitors can’t compete at that price, have all the assets, give it the superb quality by reputation and history, and make a huge profit. They can’t even sell a product and sell a separate SD card to get that much storage for that price and have it function the same.
He says “ouch” because this really hurts the competition. They just can’t compete. Apple has taken this market with no major competition and the competition just doesn’t know to do. They can only offer 1 portion of what the touch offers and the touch hits a wide range target consumers.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
… the touch is not – currently – in competition with the iPad. It is decidedly smaller and has that wonderful camera facing both ways. But … if that isn’t what you need – FaceTime and/or a part-time HD video option – then, that isn’t what you need! I may decide that the nano I just bought for my wife was a poor compromise and get myself a touch … at least 32GB <ouch!>.
@mac_KID:
It uses email as a means of calling someone, i.e., its tied to an apple account like mobileme.
How computers have changed. In the 1970s, a “computer” took up an entire basement. A “minicomputer” filled up a computer room with special cooling. A “microcomputer” was something like an Apple II.
When I was in college, they had a computer that took up the basement of the administration building. It used punch cards for storage, and to program it, they had to rewire it.
Now computers and mini-computers are called mainframes, and minicomputers are smaller than microcomputers. See, it’s not just computers that are getting smaller, the terminology is getting smaller, too.
The iPod touch is prefect for kids that want a cell phone for texting. This gets them so much more, assuming they have wi-fi access. Start them off witn an iPod touch, then get an iMac, then an iPhone and an iPad.
@Harvey – Amen to that. As a student, I had an on-campus job taking the punch card decks from students and running them through the smallest IBM (360/20), which was about the size of three desks and giving them back the output from a chain printer about the size of a refrigerator. The machine was way to temperamental for regular folks to operate. I was able to get the job because I was somewhat irregular.
Oh, to go through college with the tools available to students today.
Hmm. What happens to the touch when the iPhone goes multiple-carrier and gets 64GB memory?
The iPod touch is now an almost perfect VOIP device and the Facetime option is killer. Buy a Virgin Mifi and have unlimited voice/data/text for $40 per month.
The iPhone may some competition, but there is absolutely no competition for the iPod touch. Sony, Nintendo, Nokia, etc. should all be very ashamed of themselves. They should also be very afraid because the iPod touch is able swallow up entire markets without any interference from the telcos or the competition. I mean, haven’t these guys noticed that the touch has around 40 million users?!!! Yet, there is still zero competition. The under-20 crowd is going to be buying the new iPod touch in droves. If they would only add a GPS chip, the touch could kill off multiple devices in one fell swoop.
What a shame that Apple cheaped out on the rear facing camera.
@ Sarasota:
Well, it beats the camera on the last iPod Touch…