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Sep 06, 07
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iWant iTouch !11!!!!!
 It's called the iPod Touch. 10:32am - "It's the same size screen as the iPhone, but it's even thinner. It's 8mm thin. Unbelievable. The new iPod touch. It's one of the 7 wonders of the world." Laughter.  10:33am - "It features our revolutionary multi-touch interface that you've come to know and love on the iPhone. If you've used an iPhone you'll feel at home, it's exactly the same. Scroll through the artists with a flick of your finger. Turn it into a landscape position, it goes into Cover Flow, it's just magical." 10:34am - "All on this 8mm device. Let's look at video... all on this gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen display. And photos... just like the iPhone this is the best way to share photos on a portable device. Ever. Flick through them, pinch them to make them larger or smaller." Demo time!  10:35am - "Let me go ahead and show you the new iPod touch. Again, slide to unlock. Here we are -- let's go into music." The icons look really strange and sparse on that huge screen. It's freaking us out!   Steve's browsing by Cover Flow -- note: it has WiFi! The WiFi meter is up at the top where it would be on the iPhone. 10:37am - Steve's watching, um, Wild Hogs. He's not having a mid-life crisis, too, is he?  10:38am - "Let's take a look at photos here... it's great, let's go into an album... I can just go like this, flick through these photos. There's just never been a better way to share photos with friends on the go. It's sooo nice. Turn it back. Boom." Icons: calendar, contacts, clock, calc, settings, music, videos, photo..."I showed you the clean side... I was keeping a secret. We've built in WiFi to the iPod touch." The antenna looks, um, bad.  10:39am - 802.11b/g -- "Others have done this and it's failed. We understand why it's failed, and we know what to do make it successful. Well, what's the problem with WiFi? Well, part of the problem is getting onto WiFi... you may be fine at home and the office, but anywhere in between can be challenging." 10:40am - "You may log in but you'll get a screen. Even walking through Stanford University you get a login page... so you can build in the hardware but you can't get the network [without the page]. So what do you do about that? We're going to add an application to the touch: the Safari web browser." 10:41am - This really is the phone-less iPhone. "But besides being able to log into WiFi, you get an incredible web browser! It is the best web browser on any mobile device, and it's built in to the iPod touch." 10:42am - "We're very, very excited about this. First time EVER on a music player to have a browser built in." Uh, totally not true: look at Archos. "Why stop there?" YouTube's on the Touch as well.   10:43am - "Watch millions of free videos streaming over WiFi to the iPod touch. Let me show you these things..." Demo time! The hidden icons are now apparent -- the two missing were Safari and YouTube. Still looks a little sparse though! Looking on the NYT. "We can go over here... boom." Aw, it was a little boom that time.  10:44am - Steve's now browsing Facebook. "We're pretty excited about this." Applause. 10:45am - Bookmarked videos... "You get the idea, this gives you a feeling for what Safari and YouTube are like on the new iPod touch. We've built WiFi in and we've made it USABLE. We're REALLY excited about this." 10:46am - Connector on the bottom, but no speakers. "This is a worldwide product, the first touch product Apple's going to ship outside the US, it's going to be shipping all around the world." "The battery life is fantastic: 22 hours audio, 5 hours video playback. All in something this thin. It's... it's... amazing to me. The new iPod touch."   10:47am - Review time: multi touch, widescreen iPhone display, Cover Flow, WiFi, Safari / YouTube... "We're going to offer it in two configurations, the first is 8GB, the second is 16GB of storage. Again, how do you fit all this in here?"  10:48am - So, 8GB is $299... the price for the 16GB is $399." Less applause on the second one. "Both models are available in just a few weeks... they'll be shipping this month."   He's gonna show the iPod touch ad now. 10:49am - Not shabby -- and thankfully no more Orba Squara iPhone music. But there is one more thing... if you'll bear with us for a few more minutes.  10:50am - "You might have noticed there's an empty spot there on that dock. What could that possibly be for, you might ask? It's for a new application we've written for the iPod touch, it's called the iTunes WiFi music store." Huge applause. "FINALLY, some of you are saying. Let's take a look at what it is."   Four buttons: featured, top tens, search, downloads... "If you see something you like, tap it, free preview of the song." "You are now downloading the song... when it's done you can listen to it on your iPod touch, and it syncs back up to iTunes." Applause.    10:52am - "You can search for anything in the entire iTunes store. You can search for any artist, any song name, any album name, preview it, and if you love it go buy it. This is the new iTunes WiFi music store. Let me show it to you now." 10:53am - "Demo time: This is live coming over WiFi. I love John Lennon... so I'm going to buy this. It's now downloading... it takes a few seconds and once it's downloaded I can go to the downloads playlist and I can play it with album art and everything else. This is all live." "Isn't this incredible?" Applause and cheers.    10:54am - He plays a wacky R&B track: "Ooook." Chuckles. Now he's listening to Coco -- "That's now being bought, as you can see. I want to search for something, so of course I'm going to search for Dylan. Live search comes back from the store... 10:55am - "WiFi, as you may know, is faster than any 3G cellular network, so it's really fast." Zing! 10:56am - "So, not so bad for the new iTunes WiFi music store." Applause. "The new music store will be available internationally in every one of those 22 countries Apple operates in. We're gonna do something else, too: we're gonna bring it to the iPhone." Big applause.  10:57am - "It's going to come later this month with a free iPhone update -- everyone with an iPhone is going to get this too. We're really, really excited about this. There's even ONE MORE incredible part of this. We've been working on this for two years." 10:58am - "I can't tell you how much pleasure it brings me... we have a GREAT partnership with Starbucks we're announcing today. We love Starbucks. It's an incredible phenomenon in our culture. We want to combine our great iPods and our love of music and their great coffee and their great love of music."  10:59am - "When you get near a Starbucks a fifth button will come up in the WiFi music store -- you may have been in a Starbucks wondering what song is that playing? Now you can buy it with a tap of your finger. And if you just missed it, you can still find it..." Is anyone else underwhelmed by this "feature"?  Demo time. "So they just built a Starbucks back stage." Laughter. "They're playing a KT Tunstall song... I can go in here and preview it."    Steve Jobs live -- Apple's "The beat goes on" special event - Engadget 
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Sep 07, 07
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shove over pyramids! the itouch is in the world!
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Sep 07, 07
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Seriously, I watched the whole keynote, and I almost had to change my pants afterwards.
I want one. I want one bad. The only thing that I'm curious about is whether or not they're going to let you pull your iTunes wifi songs off the pod and back to your computer to back it up (especially since you're still paying for it).
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Sep 08, 07
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I dont like it at all. After owning a touch screen phone for about 6 months now I can honestly say that i am all about the tactile response (buttons). I thought I would adapt to the touch screen, but I still find it annoying. Sure its fine if you stop and look at your player. But if you have it in your pocket or you are jogging this touch screen stuff is very impracticle.
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Sep 08, 07
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i hate apple and releases liek this is only fueling my fire.
why the FUCK would i get a 16 gig touchscreen for 399 when i have a 30 gig ipod for the same price. ooo yea it has wifi. fancy. fuck i dont even use my ipod vid for movies or video cause its such a fucking hassle. it hardly accepts any video formats... just the shitty apple only formats. i wouldnt hate them so much if they made their software accept more filetypes. i give these titties four thumbs down. and i am dreading the day i see the first scenster with one and trying to look cool cause he has "revolutionary" (or not so much) technology.
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Sep 08, 07
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i still love my mini!
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Sep 09, 07
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Its looks cool, could be handy at times, im not rushing to buy it tho.
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Sep 09, 07
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The reason they have multiple product lines is because different people have different needs. Is it that hard for you to figure out that that the ipod touch is obviously not being marketed to someone like yourself? This is why they increased the size on the original ipod to 80 and 160Gb.
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Sep 09, 07
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16gb is not enough for me!
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Sep 10, 07
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Sep 10, 07
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and its probly about fuckin.
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Sep 10, 07
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touchscreen is a novelty not a necessity. the hardware itself gets shittier just to make room for the touchscreen. bad tradeoff imo. but yea your right, in the eyes of apple its a great move. they are gonna RAKE the cash in man. but its still shitty hardware Last edited by GSG9; Sep 10, 07 at 10:54 PM.
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