Apple: It’s Showtime!
September 12, 2006
Earlier today, in San Fran, Steve Jobs took the stage for the second time in as many months to announce more Apple iPod products. Again, this hush-hush announcement was covered in explicit detail from the gang at Engadget.
Some folks thought he’d announce a widescreen video iPod. Other’s thought they were upgrading to 640×480 resolution. Nonsense! Just some upgrades to the current gen5 to gen5.5 with a 3.5 hour increase on battery life and a 60% brighter screen. Oh yea, and they’ve got it at 80gb for the top model now. Some also speculated they’d stray from hard-disk storage since Samsung has introduced big capacity flash memory players, but that’s not out yet either. I guess the coolest things were the tiny shuffles they are releasing and the new nanos which are reworked and also will come in different colors. Perfect for your favorite preteen. I dunno, check it out. I’m a little disappointed. I ordered my gen5 the day of the press conference a few months back and now theyve upgraded the battery and the hard drive for those who buy it now. Come on, Steve. At least its nothing I can’t live without.
In short, here’s what Steve announced today (also from Engadget):
- Apple launches “enhanced” 5.5G iPod
- 2G nano announced!
- iPod shuffle now “world’s smallest MP3 player”
- iTunes 7 with iTunes Movie Store announced!
And finally, Apple to release iTV video streaming box in 2007
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