Comments on: Apple’s most ironically named event, ever

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:55:54 +0000

I believe with these smaller events they’re going to have to not hype up the reveals as much as prior year’s ginormous public events. With such minor updates it hardly warrants a showing – especially if the updates are trivial… possibly to set the bar a little low for a bigger reveal down the road, but that seems a bit contrived.

Consumers don’t need another lo-res digital camera, and if they do… it should be quite a bit more then that craptastic camera packed in those little things – almost any mobile phone has a decent camera, a shuffle is not going to dent that market – enough with the cameras.

They can genius and datamine all they want, I’ve not purchased any apps beyond what I needed – nothing else out there is really going to do the job any better then the few software apps that I have – all the other apps I have are free demo apps and fill the small bit of time while waiting around for something else to happen – lol.

I think the incremental advances in the iPod Touch is a concentrated effort to push consumers into just getting the iPhone – i.e. the speaker-less design and then oooh, a new built-in speaker… oh now hold them off for another six months and then throw in a camera…

I guess It’s a good test model to see how these smaller cameras fit into such small form factors but I’m not sure how it helps the overall product line when they should test it in the iPod Touch before a public release.

I’m actually surprised they didn’t put a decent HD capable camera in the classic iPod since it has the largest bump in physical storage/hard drive space… I probably would have replaced my old 30GB model with a new one for video storage and immediate playback.

By: Maverick

Maverick — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:24:14 +0000

Agreed, lack of camera is a major loss. Wonder if it’s just because they want something else “new” to introduce next year… or maybe just something else to persuade users into buying an iPhone instead.

By: metalman777

metalman777 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:36:47 +0000

I was hoping for video and mic for the iPod touch as well. I have no interest in buying a nano with video..

By: Ifireun

Ifireun — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:00:25 +0000

What a major disappointment – I was eager to upgrade my iPod Touch, but the new 32/64 Touches are designed for one thing – to get you to buy more apps, music and video from iTunes. No camera, no built-in microphone, no longer interested.

I won’t even touch that ridiculous 3.1 OS and I have no further interest in an iPod with earbuds with the remote and microphone (which are best tossed into the garbage as Apple earbuds fit poorly and sound bad). I’ll keep my audiophile earbuds and enjoy my music, not slay it…

Gonna wait four more months to see if the finally get the iPod right or release a tablet.

By: Dr. Macenstein

Dr. Macenstein — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:55:06 +0000

@Maverick,
whoops! Thanks Maverick! Gotta work on the comprehension…among other things.
- The Doc

By: Maverick

Maverick — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:51:52 +0000

Doc,

No cameras in the new iPod touches!!

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/specs.html

-Mav