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What happened to the iPod?
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Wow. You are off your rocker.
brotherbean
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I love threads where we know more than companies like Apple, like they haven't employed a group of reasonably intelligent people to do some research on whether or not they should keep making iPods. This can't be a new idea to them.
Steve Youngblood
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Yeah, I'm honestly scratching my head trying to figure out why the ability to tether to a device that can already play Pokemon Go is an attractive proposition. I honestly don't get it.
TheGeniusArcana
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None of this really addresses my point that Apple is already releasing cheaper iPhones. If you're saying that an iPod is somehow a good alternative to a GoPro because it has more features, then what's to stop people from getting an iPhone instead of an iPod because iPhones have more features?
Yeah, if you ignore the OP and all of my posts.
Just because you'd drop 200 dollars just to play Pokémon Go doesn't mean a lot of people would do that
I loved my Ipod, but having two devices (particularly when one made the other redundant) got all really fast. Sure, there's a nostalgia about having a dedicated music player that contains your very own, personal music collection, but you just realize how ridiculous it is when your devices rattle along in your packet all day.
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The current one is more comparable to an iPhone 6 but with a 4" screen. It has an A8 SoC in it.
Smashing a $200 iPod isn't nearly as bad as smashing a $700 iPhone.
SirUltimos
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Have you ever designed a consumer electronics product?
The current iPod touch has an A8 chip which is the equivalent to an iPhone 6.
So I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Pretty good idea. Going to do just that from now on.
Not just for Go, I would use it as a camera primarily, as well as to store my huge music collection without clogging up my iPhone hard drive.
And tons of people buy new hardware to play Nintendo games. This ain't new.
Also, you can already tether your iPod Touch to your iPhone to get data through Wireless Hotspot...what's different in OP's proposition, tethered GPS access?
OP, I understand your point about Apple abandoning the iPod, I really do. But if you're trying to convince us that tethering the device to an iPhone is the main usage scenario for which a market still exists for it, it's just not gonna happen. You're probably the one person in a million that finds this idea attractive.
In theory I guess the parent would have the phone, and they would give the cheap iPod to their kid. I imagine the Pokemon Go app would have to be overhauled to support GPS data through tethering though.
Apple doesn't want you to keep your old phone and buy a new iPod for $200, they want you to buy a new iPhone for $700.
TheGeniusArcana
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People should get iPods because breaking it hurts their wallet less than breaking an iPhone?
The cheaper iPhone models aren't $700
So Nintendo has Pokemon GO and... Miitomo. Miitomo is clearly the system seller Nintendo has always needed
With the same old cruddy design with the huge pointless bezels. They need to have a good design or they'll just continue to believe it's a non-seller. It needs to wow people. They need to bring back the silhouette dancers and market this shit right. It's not rocket science.
... last I checked, an iPod touch has a camera and can play music.
*looks at Wii U sales figures*
Steve Youngblood
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People who are worried about smashing their expensive consumer electronics device will just buy one of the numerous protective cases that exists just for this problem. I really, really don't understand the premise of this thread. I'm not saying that the number of people who would be interested is zero as EVERYONE would just buy a smartphone, but the market for a gaming-centric touch device that doesn't have wireless data support doesn't strike me as something that is obviously noteworthy.
nhlducks35
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Having looked at OP's posting history he seems kinda dense
People who place their phone face down on a surface
People who place their phone face down on a surface
The only iPod I still have is my first one from way back in 2003, one of the ones with the buttons above the click wheel rather than on it. It has a certain amount of sentimental value to me. And it still works!
Have no need for an iPod now though, the phone covers it's job rather well.
Have no need for an iPod now though, the phone covers it's job rather well.
Your posts have just been "They should make this, it would make a lot of money" when in reality if Apple thought they could turn a profit on something I'm sure they would be willing to sell it.
Like I have a 160gb Classic and I love the thing, but that's just me with a years worth of podcasts on it. Not everyone needs or wants that. Streaming is the new hotness.
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He can't even formulate his thoughts let alone design an actual consumer electronic product.
It already supports GPS through tethering. I do it with my iPad mini 4. It works perfectly. (Except I can't hold my iPad and iPhone at the same time)
Not just tethering. Could compete with Go Pro as a camera. Compete with 3DS as a gameboy. Compete with cheap android tablets as an alternative. There's money on the table here and Apple is clueless.
I don't think you understand the tech you're talking about, especially photography-wise.
Doesn't the iPod already have a camera, and games?
Like the thing you're describing is a fucking iPod touch.
Pokémon Go runs like absolute garbo on an iPhone 5. Also, Apple gets none of that money.
And you think the average consumer does? Given the choice between a $400 gopro that is just a camera, or a $200 iOS device marketed as a great camera, they'll choose the iPod.
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No, the iPod Touch was a great transitional tool between the MP3 player period and the smartphone period. I've owned the 2G, 4G, and 5G versions of the iPod Touch myself. They were neat products. But by 2016 just about anyone even remotely interested in a smartphone has owned several by now, including kids. It just has too much overlap with existing phones to really be a distinct product anymore, and a design refresh won't do much to change that. Besides, you can get a low-end iPad for almost the price of an iPod Touch nowadays, and I suspect most consumers choose that.
As for the proposal to bring back the mid-00s iPod marketing, that just doesn't seem like Apple. They give occasional subtle nods to their past products, but they're not like Nintendo, they don't do whole product releases based around it.
If it was updated with a new design and marketed properly, yep.
The average consumer will use the camera on their phone.
Maximus.
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Apple isn't losing anything because a few people don't have an iPod with cellular capabilities. They did update the iPod Touch to have 5S or 6 internals, though it still looks the same. They gave up on the brand because the iPhone accounts for 70%+ revenue and the iPod doesn't account for anything anymore. Just because in your mind it sounds like a great idea, doesn't mean that Apple has lost its shit and doesn't know what to do without Jobs. That is just ignorant. The market keeps changing, they want to stay on top of it to maximize profits. Pokemon Go is designed for smartphones.
Well you just got to market well, come on man they are leaving money on the table!
Promise me you're going to make an effort to understand, please.
Now, read.
What's wrong with the following statement:
"of course consumers will buy a car for 2000$ instead of a car that costs 40k$"?
Do you get it?
A camera is not just a camera.
Just needs the right marketing campaign breh
You act as if there aren't millions of iOS games. If they made a controller peripheral it would also make for an excellent tv controller and remote.
Apple still releases iPod Touch devices, but they usually release them around the time new number phones come out vs every phone iteration (which makes sense as they aren't high in demand products and it would be a lot of effort on their part to release a Touch update for every iPhone release). For example, the current iPod Touch is based on the original iPhone 6 chipset. Once the iPhone 7 is released, it's likely that there will be a new iPod Touch based on this device.
That said, Pokemon Go, a game that requires a GPS and constant data sharing to know where the user is located, is not a good reason for Apple to release a new iPod Touch.
That said, Pokemon Go, a game that requires a GPS and constant data sharing to know where the user is located, is not a good reason for Apple to release a new iPod Touch.
I don't understand why you're upset. That they choose to market the iPhone over the iPod touch? What?
You know, I take my dog running each morning before work. I use my iPhone 6 to stream NPR on the run.
My arms arent small, but I do miss my slim iPod on my arm instead of the much larger iPhone 6.
But I wouldn't even consider buying an iPod just for exercise. The device is utterly redundant at this point.
My arms arent small, but I do miss my slim iPod on my arm instead of the much larger iPhone 6.
But I wouldn't even consider buying an iPod just for exercise. The device is utterly redundant at this point.
brotherbean
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The real question that you need to be asking yourself is, "Does Tim Cook read GAF?" I imagine heads will roll when he realizes how much money he's left on the table all these years.
Hey did anyone here ever owned an iRiver or a Zune?.
call me crazy but I thought the brown Zune was a nice looking device
And drop their phone and smash it instead of smashing a cheaper easier to replace product.
So make the iPod more durable.
So make the camera better.
This is exactly why Jobs was the best. He pushed what was possible. Modern Apple is too comfortable. What happened to "Stay Hungry, Stay foolish"
CraigerGamer
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I just bought a 6th gen itouch. Is that not what you are talking about?
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