Apple announcing new touch-screen wifi equipped iPod...

[brooklynite]

...based on design on the iPhone

Live blog of announcement at: http://news.com.com/8301-13579_3-9770620-37.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item

[brooklynite]

1. Between this and the current market interest in Tech...

...it should send the stock price through the roof

[truebrit71]

3. AAPL down $1.50....

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[brooklynite]

4. Immediate prices almost always drop...wait 48 hours

[truebrit71]

5. We shall see....

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[AlCzervik]

6. i'm holding. My BIL bought Apple stock when it was at $70 and sold it at $87

and has been kicking himself in the ass ever since.

[brooklynite]

7. With stock splits, I bought at an effective price of $4.50...

[truebrit71]

29. Nice! Stock down another 3 bucks today...

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[Dora]

2. THAT's what we've been waiting for. nt

[Kelly Rupert]

8. Succumbing... to... reality... distortion...field...

[brooklynite]

9. Um...ONE...MORE...THING.....

The 8 Gig iPhone has a price drop of $200 - -now $399.

Don't you feel silly for standing in line?

[Nomad559]

11. Ouch

Read the comments

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/8gb-iphone-price-cut-by-200-4gb-iphone-gone-296705.php

BY MARCELO AT 02:20 PM That's just mean.

BY THEBITTERBUNCH AT 02:21 PM Steve, you're going down. This is beyond bitter. Are you a Nazi?

BY DIRK AT 02:21 PM Oh, snap

BY DVDGUYLA AT 02:21 PM cocksucker!!

BY JOS AT 02:22 PM Haha, thats the fastest price drop I've ever seen Apple

BY GADGETCHIC AT 02:22 PM i feel really bad for all the iphone owners right now that really sucks

BY JJ_DUB AT 02:23 PM I'd just like to be the first to say that this is utter BULLSHIT.
Can we early adopters get a rebate

:rofl:

[The Vinyl Ripper]

13. I got burned buying a digital camera a few years ago..

For about $800 which I just sold for $87

I won't get suckered like that again.

From now on any tech equipment gets bought used, at a steep discount or not at all.

[Hissyspit]

20. Yes, you get a rebate or at least I did. Go to your AT&T store.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

12. Is that TRUE? I read that just now...

why would they cut the price so quickly?

[The Vinyl Ripper]

14. The WOW factor has worn off already..

Technology is moving so fast that today's high tech is tomorrow's old hat.

Early adopters (and I used to be one) will pay premium prices for the latest technology.

The rest of us wait until the price drops considerably, as it invariably does with high tech gadgets.

Even the early adopters are starting to savvy up..

[onehandle]

15. They are selling beyond their projections.

They were likely going to cut the price later in the year.

They're making enough money to do it now.

[mondo joe]

19. Early adopters know better than to get cranky when changes take place.

Or they should.

Anyone who doesn't know that deserves what they get themselves into.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

10. They'll sell a bunch

The first few months..

And then the clones will come out.

Touch screen is old technology and wifi is *everywhere*.

I personally don't care for touch screens, no tactile feedback. It's like trying to type on one of the old "chicklet" keyboards.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

18. but have you....

Used the iPhone?

The touch screen is different in several ways - It really is ultra cool.... (I know, I sound like I am 14 and talking about the next season of American Idol.)

Anyway, just drop in on an Apple store and FEEL it.... Mmmmmm.... tasty.

[Hissyspit]

22. Nope, it's different.

You have to try it is all I can say.

I thought I was going to feel the same way as you describe, but now that I've had mine for several days, I am completely accustomed to it.

[Kelly Rupert]

23. You know, I hear some variation on this argument

every time Apple releases something new and shiny. "Oh, it'll grab people's attention at first, but it's not that special and they'll realize that." And yet every time they get a fantastic consumer response, break profit records, and consolidate their stranglehold on the personal music player market.

This is yet another frankly astounding breakthrough in consumer-oriented design, and the importance of design is something most tech analysts are only now beginning to design. Yeah, Wifi is old tech. Yeah, touch-screen is old tech. But nobody has yet successfully implemented wifi in a music player (clunky startups like the Gremlin aside). Nobody has yet successfully implemented a touch-screen interface. With this round, they've made a major leap out ahead of their competition with the iPod Touch (while finally bringing the other lines up to speed).

[The Vinyl Ripper]

27. There are a crapload of mp3 players out there on the market now..

Consumers have a lot of choices and a great many of them are a lot cheaper than Apple's

They'll make money at it but the competition is catching up to them faster and faster each time.

My wife has a Blackberry Pearl that has an mp3 player and stereo Bluetooth built in. The trackball interface is really nice and great for playing games. With a two gig chip in it you can cram more tunes in than you can listen to in a month.

Personally I don't even want a cellphone, too damn many people know how to get in touch with me already. My big problem is avoiding people I don't want to talk to. I got rid of my last cell three years ago and there's only about three or four times that I've really missed it.

My mp3 player is a tiny thing I bought off ebay for less than $20 and put a $13 two gig micro SD card in. No display at all but I don't care about that since I only put tunes I really like in it and it has a random play mode.

My next upgrade to my portable sound isn't another player, it's going to be a Stax SR-001 Mk II portable electrostatic headphone unit. I'm way more into sound quality than I am doodads.

http://www.audiocubes.com/category/Headphones_Audiophile,+Hifi/product/Stax_SR-001_MKII_System.html

[Toots]

16. Apple has a way of establishing the way America computes/communicates..

They are true visionaries...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

17. As with all things Apple...

... I will have one.

I will wait for the glam to wear off.

The price will drop for Christmas.....

The times they are a changin'!

[Hissyspit]

21. I love mine. n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

24. I would pay extra

for a beige iPod with the rainbow apple logo. I honestly would.

[mondo joe]

25. You are in luck!

Well sort of. No rainbow logo, but lots of other choices.

Custom color your iPod at http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/Select_video.aspx

[Kelly Rupert]

26. Damn. No Apple Beige.

Man, they're never goin' back to the Good Ol' Days, are they?

[NYC Liberal]

28. Picking one up at the Apple Store as soon as they come in! nt