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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
running said 3:27PM on 8-06-2007
"16GB" and "flash-based" in one sentence? I don't believe it much..
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Macroy said 10:41PM on 8-08-2007
That picture is awesome.
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Jesse Hogue said 3:46PM on 8-06-2007
16GB for a video iPod? That makes no sense what so ever, that is barely any space for music or photos, let alone video.
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Luigi193 said 3:48PM on 8-06-2007
my thoughts exactly Jesse
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Victor Agreda Jr said 3:51PM on 8-06-2007
It depends on what your usage pattern is. If you want a few video podcasts for the commute, or you auto-update that playlist, this makes sense. You can set up a smart playlist to load up recently purchased TV shows, and watch stuff that way too. Sure, you can't have every ST:TNG in your pocket, but my god, who wants that?
(please don't answer that one, because I would want it, but I can't afford the series on DVD)
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pos said 3:52PM on 8-06-2007
Ahh... hahah... I get it... a note about flash-based video ipod with a pic of FLASH gordon.
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flib juckson said 4:04PM on 8-06-2007
you can watch a 15min youtube video, then at the end of the video, YOUR memory is flashed! that way, when you come to, you don't remember the video, and you watch it again! pretty cool..endless entertainment for little effort.
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Nic said 9:56PM on 8-06-2007
tremendous accompanying picture, made me smile.
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Ralph said 4:14PM on 8-06-2007
FWIW, there's a new release of FLASH GORDON out on DVD this week:
http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/flash-gordon.html
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Chris Murphy said 4:19PM on 8-06-2007
If true, this is WEAK.
Apple used to be completely against going after the lower-end market. Now, that's all they want to do! Nanos, shuffles, iMacs, Mac Minis.
How about doing something for people who acutally enjoy music and video by making a touch screen iPod with 60+ GBs? That's what EVERYONE WANTS so stop messing with us!
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Primoz said 4:24PM on 8-06-2007
16Gb? That's going to be dissapointing if it shows up as true. I have only arround 30GB od music, where should I put then the video and podcasting stuff?? I really wish this is not true!
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nintendo fanboy hater said 4:40PM on 8-06-2007
16 gigs is enough space for 20 family guy episodes or 4 movies but i doubt it will be solid state for video
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KR said 5:13PM on 8-06-2007
Yeah, I can understand boosting the capacity of the Nanos, with 16GB at the high-end.
But cutting the smallest video iPod in half, down to 16GB? I can't imagine it.
It would also be odd if they continued to offer the 30GB and 80GB HDD iPods along with a flash-based one with less capacity, because I'm sure the flash one would cost quite a bit more.
Right now the 8GB flash Nano costs the same as the 30GB iPod with video.
Can't see it happening just yet.
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Vijay said 7:15PM on 8-06-2007
Looks like somebody went to the Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass screening of Flash Gordon this weekend.
Anyway, 16GB... Good for a Nano. Not for the real iPod. We need a 100G iPod touchscreen with gesture support. And also, can we get an iPhone update that supports touch gestures that simulate the Clickwheel. I hate looking at the screen (though, it is pretty gorgeous) every time I want to skip the song or increase the volume.
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Galley said 6:19PM on 8-06-2007
The new video iPod will act like a portable Apple TV. You will have a local cache to store your most recent stuff, but will also be able to access anything on your Mac or PC via Wi-Fi, or even over the Internet. Remember, you heard it here first! The iPhone will also gain this feature.
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rp said 5:10PM on 8-07-2007
16 gb is plenty. all you whiny lil biznitches obviously never had a 1st gen ipod. what doesn't make sense is that you think it's even possible to watch 16 gb worth of video without the ipod running out of juice. i can barely even watch 2 (about 1.5gb) movies on my 60gb videopod. so, if you have 5 gb of video, you're going to have a lot to watch, and you won't even make it through that without having to recharge. who wants to watch the same videos over and over and over again anyway? music is not quite the same, but you'd still have 10gb free, a hell of a lot, for everything else.
if you only have like 30gb of music total, i doubt that the entire 30gb is even worth listening to. if you can't make like 5+ days worth of music work for you, then you've got problems.
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marcosmalo said 7:19PM on 8-06-2007
I really hate rumors and rumor sites. However, if TUAW is going to only have rumors on one day a week, I'm cool with that. And Monday is fitting, seeing as how Apple has historically unveiled new gear on Tuesdays.
Regarding this particular rumor, it does make some sense for the nano to get a boost to 16 GB. I'm afraid I don't understand the naysaying. If 16 GB is too little space, buy the 30 GB disk based iPod (or whatever is the smallest). It's as if some of you are so self centered that a product is bad if it doesn't exactly fit your particular needs.
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Paul said 9:48PM on 8-06-2007
I don't see them updating the nano or even the video ipod with a 16GB flash just yet - it would be (perhaps a minor) reason not to buy an iphone. I think right now, good or bad, Apple will not do anything to cut the iphone sales.
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Matteo said 2:52AM on 8-07-2007
@Galley
interesting idea... More so if you consider the previous rumor that states .Mac is due for an overhaul.
I love this "rumor guessing" about Apple. At least consumers are given the chance to discuss their ideas and share some of what they this will/should happen :-)
PS- hope I can post this, because I use my @mac.com address to confirm the posts and it doesn't work very well recently (duh...).
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periqueblend said 5:28AM on 8-07-2007
I don't know much about anything, but when I asked my Apple friends when the 80 gb iphone was due, he said something to the effect that 16gb was the largest flash memory drive you could have. But they should put the touch screen on a normal ipod with its actual hdrive. But whatever, they'll do what they do (make what they want) and we'll do what we do (either buy it or bitch about how it should be better- maybe both).
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