iPod Apple's biggest screwup ever.

[generationxwing]

Only 16GB on the iPod Touch? Who are they kidding?! And for $400?!
They had me sold on it until the capacity, they really did. I was going to buy one today.

This is STUPID. All to keep the damn thing thin. I'm am pissed beyond words.

So don't buy one, how hard is that? "Pissed beyond words." What a joke. You've got problems.

 

[seenew]

So don't buy one, how hard is that? "Pissed beyond words." What a joke. You've got problems.

I'm not going to. But I believe I have the same right as others who voice their disappointment here all the time. So you could contribute, or step out of the thread.

 

[smurfy]

They missed their demographic? What are you smoking?

They've hit every target they possibly could. A new shuffle for music on the go, a new nano for smaller music collections and cool video capability, an ipod classic for that real music lover, and the ipod touch, for people who use wifi on the go and wouldnt mind having 16gigs of music to to rock out to on a daily basis. Its the new gadget that a lot of people are going to fall in love with.

You can always buy one and change your music when you need to. Or just get the 160gig classic and **** already.


zing.

We are going to pay more and not get as much space as an iPod which costs less.

Also, what is this new shuffle you speak of...oh, it doesn't exist...right.

People who pay $300 for an iPod are the people who use 80GB of space.

 

[ChrisBrightwell]

The decision to dump the hard drive was probably to keep the battery life at a respectable level while driving that ridiculously large screen and powering the touch interface.

I'm thinking of trading my 60GB 5G for a 16GB touch ... the wifi+Safari combo is too much for me to resist.

 

[riverfreak]

We are going to pay more and not get as much space as an iPod which costs less.

Also, what is this new shuffle you speak of...oh, it doesn't exist...right.

People who pay $300 for an iPod are the people who use 80GB of space.

From the success of the original iPod at the unheard of price of $499/5GB to the iPhone, those most likely to drop the cash are not first and foremost concerned about capacity. I used to be one of the high capacity crowd, but scrolling through the 20GB 2nd gen was just too much for me.

I'd say they nailed the target market perfectly with the Touch.

 

[raptor96]

People who pay $300 for an iPod are the people who use 80GB of space.

Agreed. I'm only disappointed because I've been holding onto my 3g ipod waiting for the full video iPod. Granted I think the Touch is amazing, the fact that I can't fit all of my music alone on it is disappointing. I also have like 50gb of movies/shows and while I wasn't expecting to fit all of that I was expecting at least like 24gb (16+8) so I could fit all my music and some video.

While you can say that Apple did it perfect for what they wanted, as a company they should look to serve what their consumers want...as much as you want to fan-boy it ("Apple did it perfectly for what THEY wanted") that's a ridiculous conception, because their R&D should be going towards finding out what WE want, our needs shouldn't adapt to the product. The other issue I have is that the price point for such a low capacity is now the same as getting an iPhone...wtf (granted the iPhone has an even lower capacity but it has the redeeming quality of being a phone). And if I can't fit my music on the touch, then why not at least get the phone functionality as well if I'm making the sacrifice. My issue here is this - for those of us with well over 20gb of digital media, the difference between 8 gb and 16 gb is not much because either way we're not able to carry our whole library and since the people who are targeted by these two products are in fact, as stated above, the people who DO have large libraries...it's a little dumb IMO. All that said, I may keep my phone and go with the Touch so I can gain the add'l capacity and not have to go anywhere near AT&T. Though I'm definitely hesitating, where I wouldn't have if it was 32gb or even 24gb. My two cents.

 

[MovieCutter]

My biggest problem is that I was waiting for this device as a MOVIE player, which to me would mean having a 160GB hard drive. I too was sold until he announced the capacity. I understand what they're doing, but I have an 8GB iPhone and the music capacity is great, but I want to store movies and TV shows up the wazoo and I can't do that with 16GB of space. I'll probably end up buying one anyway though

But really, 160GB on a SMALL screen and 16GB on a HUGE screen!? WTF mate?

I just wish they announced a 16GB iPhone today.

 

[Osarkon]

I really didn't expect them to branch the 'iPod classic' apart from the iPod touch. Although once they'd shown that pitiful storage, it's obvious why.

I'll end up getting a classic, but I really hope that you can turn off the album art features, because iTunes doesn't find half the artwork for my music and it's a lot of hassle to go and find it myself.

 

[MRU]

Dissapointed by the announcement.

I wanted a 160gb ipod touch and would have happily slapped down €499 for the priviledge.

Instead I'm presented with ipod classic for 160gb, but as an owner since Rev 2 ipod's I'm a little tired of the design and wanted the touch screen and interface

iPod touch, crippled for me with its 16gb capacity.

I have 81 gb of music in my iTunes library that has outgrown my 5.5g and I need more storage. And watching video on a normal ipod sucks ass period.

But now apple don't have an ipod that caters for me fully. So I'm

 

[Doctor Q]

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