Originally Posted by mayonaise
there's plenty of hype about up and coming products, but they generally do not update their product lines very often. they typically do a lot of announcements at one time, like revealing new notebooks, ipods, accessories, etc, all in the same announcement. the ipod itself is usually updated about once a year. before today, the last update to the regular ipod was in june, but it was more of a re-naming than anything else.
the original ipod mini was released a couple months after the ipod photo, and updated over a year later. the ipod shuffle was released in january of this year, and the nano on september 7th. so i'm kind of confused as to what products they are releasing every other week?
Well I have seen iPod accessory releases almost non stop...maybe it's just the particular forums I go to or something.
Still that many iPod designs is a lot of forced antiquity. I would hate to have bought an iPod photo a week ago and turn around for the same price (or close to it) have the next generation pop up on me. Granted you can take it back but it would frustrate the hell out of me and I would just sit back and wait for the next one rather than buy this one now.