Filed under: iPod Family, Retail, Rumors, One More Thing
iPod Price Drop pre-announcement?
An anonymous tipster just wrote in with this juicy bit of info: "iPod prices have already changed in retail stores. 20 is 249, U2 is 279, 60 is 349. Someone made a mistake at corporate." Have any of our readers been by a retail store today so we can confirm or refute this info?Anyone still taking bets on the announcement? My money is now on Updated iPods with an 80GB model at somewhere around $400-450. No video iPod though. I just don't think it is going to happen (even though I would by one immediately if it did).
UPDATE: Check out this leaked pic from the iLounge folks. Looks like I may be buying a new iPod...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Alex H. said 11:53AM on 10-12-2005
It's a video iPod. iLounge had an exclusive shot of a silhouette advertisement for the new iPod, and the screen is quite a bit larger (though the image is down at the moment, as they've replaced it with a temporary bandwidth-conserving splash page).
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Don Wilson said 12:03PM on 10-12-2005
Speaking of ad...
http://www.macrumors.com/downloads/ilounge-ipod.jpg
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arkowi said 12:04PM on 10-12-2005
http://live.ilounge.com/
hmmm.
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Piers Morgan said 12:05PM on 10-12-2005
A Harry Potter iPod? Did anyone see that coming?
Naturally the iPod video is soon to follow, so we can watch the HP films on it.
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Greg said 12:06PM on 10-12-2005
Shot of new iPod poster. Larger screen, headphone jack off-center.
http://live.ilounge.com/ilounge-ipod.jpg
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Illtron said 12:07PM on 10-12-2005
I can see it happening, but I don't think there will be any push to get people to watch movies on it. I think it'll be all about video podcasts.
I do predict this for certain (and I thought this before seeing that picture): Smaller form factor, bigger display, bigger hard drives.
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Penginkun said 12:10PM on 10-12-2005
So there's a tiny chunk of something which claims to be from a new Ad? No, not buying it. ANYone could have made that.
Guess we'll see in an hour.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 12:12PM on 10-12-2005
I stand by my video iPod claim, posters or not. May the stock forecasting offers start rolling in please...
Why? Jobs has said (paraphrasing) people sit in front of the computer to engage their mind, and in front of the TV to turn it off. He also said (as per Caolo's post), he could see a scenario where you'd want to broadcast stuff from one location to another. Did that with music, AirTunes and iPod. Right? You sit in front of the computer to make your playlists, walk away to enjoy the music. Why not the same idea with video?
Remember what happened with the Mac launch, behind the scenes. Apple wanted to make sure there was software, so they had "evangelists" like Guy Kawasaki. It's all about the content (software being content on the computer). The content here will probably begin as iTunes music videos, plus managed video output from iMovie. TV-out from the vPod will allow you to take your created content, plus that heavily-DRM'ed purchased content that C.K. loves so much...
KTLA predicts!
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Cmon said 12:14PM on 10-12-2005
Penginkun -
Get real, man... it's true. Check out all their photos at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipodlounger/
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Wheels said 12:15PM on 10-12-2005
I really do hope Jobs announces actual computer upgrades instead of being a one trick iPod pony. If all these special announcements are going to be all about iPods, hype surrounding these events is going to dwindle and investors are going too get skittish.
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Troy said 12:17PM on 10-12-2005
Follow this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipodlounger/
and you'll see the full posters in place at the theater. The jpg at ilounge.com is just a highlight, so there's more than a tiny chunk.
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Kelly said 12:17PM on 10-12-2005
what time is the chat? 10?
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Illtron said 12:22PM on 10-12-2005
I also predict that Apple stock is a bargain right now. The people who sold based on "disappointing" results after inflated expectations are fools.
Get ready to see it jump ... if the video iPod happens and it isn't another ROKR.
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Poncho said 12:24PM on 10-12-2005
Quote: http://live.ilounge.com/
Load of balls, it's not going to be a video iPod. Yeah, SJ might announce a higher capacity iPod but I think his 'one more thing...' thing has to be something a bit more special than that or he would've announced it at the last special event, no?
I reakon a Dual Dual PowerMac G5 is on the cards. With roughly a year to go before all Macs are x86, Apple still has PowerPC-based products in the making.
Cheers;
Poncho
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mv said 12:28PM on 10-12-2005
apple store is down
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Penginkun said 12:30PM on 10-12-2005
Done and done. So it's got a bigger screen. Ah, so what? All the better to view pictures with, I say.
We'll see in half an hour, and I'll be happy to eat my words if I'm wrong.
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arkowi said 12:30PM on 10-12-2005
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71707/wo/Y01kg1vVjTPz2rhX6nE19mq00nn/0.SLID?nnmm=ipod&mco=B9606D4C
The store is down, "We'll Be Back Soon"
I love this part :-)
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Nick Fox said 12:31PM on 10-12-2005
It's all happening...It's like the apocolypse only slightly cooler, and definately more fashionable.
Nick
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Saurabh Agarwal said 12:34PM on 10-12-2005
The Apple IPOD STORE is down for an hour!!! Its coming...what ever it is!
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KM said 12:35PM on 10-12-2005
iPORN!!!!!!!!!
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