That really makes no sense because his lenses are how he makes a living.

I understand where he is coming from with the feeling that Apple wants you to get rid of your just purchased iPod because it isn't color, only has a 20 gig hd, etc etc. However, I think that they have an efficient marketing program and that is the end result. Yes, they introduce a new feature rather expediciously. It is nothing but good marketing. Joe Blow who has a 1.5 year old iPod that is perfectly functioning is now saying wow, for a similar price segment I can get a color screen, double the HD and play video and see pictures on it. Let me upgrade. They are forcing the turnover rate to be higher than it should be.

 

kind of like spending 800 bucks on a single lens for your camera right?

personally, having the ability to carry around a shitload of movies in near dvd quality on a device the size of an i pod is great.[/QUOTE]

As was already said I make my living with my camera...do you make your living with your iPod? Yeah thought not so it is quite a bit different.

Near DVD quality? Well of course that is easy to do especially on a 1.5" screen to view them on, I bet you could save it at the lowest possible resolution and it would still look like DVD quality at that size screen.

 

bah

the iRiver h320 does xvid movies for a year already h:

 

next up: tv reception.

 

2.5" h:

well the emphasis is still on being an audio player. the video feature is just apple testing the waters of the portable video player market. i think the eventual point is to have wider format support. currently, the ITMS videos will only be 320x240, which is pretty weak. i don't think anyone's going to have much fun staring at a 2.5" screen for hours, either. but keep in mind, you can hook it up to a TV. DVD quality video is pertinent, then. if you can carry around dozens of DVD's worth of videos on a device as small as an ipod, and hook it up to any TV anywhere you go, i think it'd be a lot more useful. absolutely not a must-have-to-live item, but still pretty cool.

 

the old iPod sucks.

All of my coworkers have them. ranging from the 512mb to the 30gb iPods.

They use it for about 4 hours and need then it needs a rechrage. hahaha.


they paid about 300+ for the 3gb ipod and they get on average, 4-6 hours of lisening time.

All it does is play mp3. One coworkers ipod doesnt even play mp3's unless its connected via USB cuz her battery are out. haha.

Sucks to be them.

I on the other hand, didn't buy the ipod, i got me a korean booteg, I-Audio.

i get about 14 hours of battery time. not only plays mp3, but wav and has a FM tuner to i can listen to 97.1 fm and hear mr. Tom talk about bltches and tricks.

hahah.

 

thanks john, you saved me the trouble of typing that h:

/iProduct

 

Ok I give it up to apple for pushing technologies limits and making innovations.

What I don't think they should do is make releases every other week with new items for it. develop and test the items, then announce a large scale release every 6 months or maybe every 3 months even. It sure would lighten the aspect of them playing market dominance which is something they have been at battle with MS about for a while now, even took them to court over it and now look at them.

 

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.