Touch
There was an Apple special event today, and you know how much I like writing about these things.
Straight off the bat, a $200 price cut for the iPhone. That was a surprise to everyone, especially those early adopters that have already shelled out for one. But they should know that’s what happens in tech, things get cheaper. Even if Apple had waited a year to drop the price, those that had bought one in the two months before the price drop would still be pissed. Somebody is always going to be. I’ve been bitten by this problem many times before.
The rest of the announcements were all iPod updates. Shuffle gets new colours. Nano is now wider and shorter, and can play video, also in new colours. The iPod itself is now the iPod Classic, with up to 160GB of hard disk space. Which still isn’t big enough for my whole music collection.
The interesting bit, for me anyway, was the iPod Touch. Which essentially looks like the iPhone without the phone part. And I’ve already placed my order for the 16GB model, as it seems like it’ll come in handy on those long journeys down to London to see Andrea. Oddly it looks like it lacks the email program, which seems like a strange decision to make. Why keep some iPhone style functionality on there (web browser, calendar, contacts) but remove others? Surely they should just be running the same software on it. Google Maps and YouTube also appear to be missing in action.
Not out until the end of the month, at which point I’ll post a picture of it’s shiny body being held by my fair hand.
