Comments on: TiPb Poll: What Will We See at "It's only rock and roll, but we like it" Special Apple Music Event?

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:18:27 +0000

^ Except price and capacity. If I can get a video subscription (or if DVD ripping is legalized) then my touch could be 2 inches thick and I wouldn't care.

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:17:39 +0000

Except price and capacity. If I can get a video subscription (or if DVD ripping is legalized) then my touch could be 2 inches thick and I wouldn't care.

By: Bosco

Bosco — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:37:55 +0000

A hard drive would double the thickness of the Touch. Also, solid state drives have every advantage over platters.

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:46:11 +0000

Considering the price of HDDs compared to SSDs, I'd rather have an HDD-based touch.

I had a 30GB HDD-based Creative Zen Xtra for five years. The HDD never failed me once. By the end of those 5 years, the faceplate/battery cover was held on with Krazy Glue and I had to downgrade Windows Media Player just so the last firmware update that I did wouldn't brick it. But the HDD still worked.

By: Bosco

Bosco — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:24:21 +0000

If Apple ups the ante to 128 GB on the Touch, then I agree, the Classic is gone. But I think that's unlikely. It will increase to 64 GB and come in 32 GB and 8 GB flavors as well, but the Classic will stick around for another year at 160 GB. It won't be until next year that the Touch ultimately replaces the Classic.

By: Luke W

Luke W — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:19:56 +0000

I believe the iPod Classic will be discontinued, and will be replaced by an iPod Touch with a 128gb solid state drive, along with the usual 16gb, 32gb and 64gb flash memory models. Only problem is, are the 128gb solid state drives now small and cheap enough to put into an iPod Touch or similar product?

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:00:58 +0000

Oh, forgot something from my prediction: OS3.1's iPod/Music app will be fully Cocktail-compatible as will the new Apple TV firmware and iTunes 9. Also, new Apple TV will have a drastic price drop. iTunes 9 will include support for the multitouch (Apple TV) controls in Remote, as will the newest version of Front Row.

Not expecting this to happen, but Hulu on Apple TV would be awesome. Hulu that integrates with your pre-existing library would be really awesome. And all that plus video input with a built-in HD DVR that autosyncs OTA to iTunes via Bonjour� That. Would. Be. Awesome. I may actually buy an Apple TV if this happens. Maybe.

Also, really not expecting this to happen, but OTA iTunes syncing through MobileMe.

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:40:44 +0000

Nick:

Or it might be an iPhone or classic being held upside down.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:32:29 +0000

It is very bad form to combine 3G processor and camera and leave it as the only option for the iPod touch. You took something that is almost certain and combined it with something incredibly unlikely just to minipulate a response.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:35:03 +0000

well obviously there's the iPod touch will be a major feature . . . if you look at the pic that's the type of iPod she's holding.

By: duvi

duvi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:43:28 +0000

I want the app management, but could care less about social networking unless they introduce iChat to compete with BBM.

By: cardfan

cardfan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:22:03 +0000

Don't care about ipods. Or their music event. But you have to hand it to Apple for tying in interest to the iphone. Because i'll be watching it for the details

By: Oboewan

Oboewan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:14:49 +0000

I say, in this order, sales figures, 3.1, iTunes 9 (but with no SN features) which comes out that day, Cocktail, stock ringtones, classic 2g with camera, nano 5g with camera, touch 3g with camera, shuffle price drop, new Apple TV (just in time for the new season), and finally, Steve onstage with Paul McCartney and possibly Yoko Ono to announce immediate availability of the entire remastered Beatles catalog on iTunes in Cocktail.

Oh, and world peace.

By: Sacha

Sacha — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:19:16 +0000

Almost certainly the Beatles, the same day that the remastered albums come out is deliberate.

3.1 and new iPods with camera as well

By: jbkilluh

jbkilluh — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:21:56 +0000

Looking forward to app management and iPhone 3.1 most of all!!!

By: archie

archie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:44:44 +0000

How come Bluetooth file transfers to iPods and iPhones isn't an option?

By: frog

frog — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:33:40 +0000

Can't wait to see if iTunes has app-management options. I can see a camera in a new Touch, but not the nano.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:36:26 +0000

I personally think that there will be some crazy new iPod replacing the iPod classic or a cimpletly new for factor that appeals to the same group of iPod classic users. And of course all of the other speculation and iPhone 3.1.

By: Muero

Muero — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:25:53 +0000

The math on this poll isn't really correct. Each person should be counted as one vote, not every box every person checks. The percentages are all too low.