1/1/2024 0 Comments Iflicks access permission![]() The next clue is the curtains in the invitation. It's a video iPod! TAH DAH!!!! it's the greatest thing ever!" Of coarse, Steve Job's could invoke his RSF and make my claim a reality rather than a silly musing. Not: We've said that video for the iPod is stupid, but "Oh yeah, one more thing. To me that means that Apple's going to announce something big. ![]() The invitation itself does leave a couple of clues (I think.) The first hint is "one more thing." Steve's opening line before announcing his big plan. Yesterday or the day before I read a couple of articles where some big movie execs (or mpaa or somebody) were saying that they were going to enter the movie download market before the end of the year. I think it's fairly obvious that a movie download service is a natural fit/extension for Apple given the success of ITMS. My suspicions are even stronger now that this "invite" has gone out. (something that you might envision if/when tivo and netflix get rolling together) I think Apple (as I've said before in a previous post/story)is going to introduce a Tivo like devices that hooks into the network and allows you to rent/download movies. Obviously I'm not sure what Apple's going to announce but I don't think it's going to be a video iPod. There the difference appears to be pure shallow vanity for the vast majority of buyers.) (Now, say the same thing about people buying full-sized SUVs instead of minivans, and I can give you a real good case on that one. I'm pretty sure I can get a stereo of that vintage for well under the price of a nano at a garage sale. It had RCA in jacks that I could use with a CD player. It had a turntable and a cassette deck, and would let me record from the radio, which it also had inside. My big brother's 1980 stereo could do a lot of stuff that my iPod can't. Or it might include a color screen for pictures (or TEEENY videos). It can also, in the case of something like the nano, include the device's being small enough to carry with you more easily. "Utility" encompasses more than the amount of storage in a device. You probably buy your computer based on megahertz speeds, right? Most people who buy the nano/mini/shuffle etc are people who place fashion over utility, the amount of songs the device can hold is nearly inconsequential, or at most second place. Meaning, it was worth it to you to pay what you did for that device at that time, so go with that, or you will never own an xxxxxx. you picked the time to buy, and the purchase should have been an accepted agreement. We as consumers tend to like that much more than don't like the jealousy thing. But, Apple knows the balance tips towards keeping the prices constantly in certain ranges while not being afraid of investigating upgrades due to new technology. Seeing an upgrade to your product (upgrades are good, trust me, my original 5 GB iPod wouldn't cut it today, sorry) that is exactly the same price as the one you just bought a month ago is what get's ya. They've been doing this on the computer side for a very long time. They will upgrade their line when they feel it's right, while keeping the price of the relative product the same. it's the fact that Apple has been doing this for many years. And you fail to mention the real reason it makes so many people feeling a little jealous. They will always come out with an update of your product less than a month after you purchased it" Then again, same goes for a G5 powered and HD capable Mac Mini, while they are at it. Apple needs to remind consumers that Apple is still hot this holiday season, and thus an iPod Video would serve this well. We must all remember that we are in the final stretches before the holiday season. You gotta think about it like the last presentation the rather mundane Motorola ROKR shown off (well, actually, iTunes 5.0 first), and then the major announcement of the iPod Nano saved for last. The "one last thing" - and the main event of the presentation - would be the iPod Video, along with the iMovie/iVideo/iWhatever Video store debut. Most likely, the event will start with a speed bump/dual core announcement for the PowerBooks and PowerMacs. It makes no sense to invite the media if it is merely an annoucement and last hurrah of the PowerBooks and PowerMacs before the Intel switch. ThinkSecret seems to think that an iPod Video model would rob sales of the iPod Nano despite the fact that the Video model would be at the high price range ($500+) of all iPods, whereas the Nano is not. ![]() "and think secret is saying the exact opposite: no vIpod, it's powermac and powerbook updates."Īnd ThinkSecret seems to think there's a large margin on the iPod Nano, which there is not.
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