Rumor: Apple shot ad for unreleased product

I hope they elminate the iPod shuffle to clean up the line since it is a useless player anyway. I can see them enhancing the line with cameras on the iPod nano and iPod touch, but basically ignore the Classic since nobody gets attracted to the bulkier player. If anything is added to the classic, they would probably swap a hard disk with a flash memory.

One thing that I'm surprised I haven't read about it the possibility of The Beatles coming to iTunes. Remember, September 9th a big day for The Beatles already with Beatles Rock Band being released, along with remasters of all their albums. I can see an Apple event on September 7th/8th with new ipod announcements, Beatles in iTunes, iTunes 9. Anyone else think it's a possibility?

I predict an iPod with camera and HD Video, and wait for it.... 3G through Verizon Wireless. It will the best of the iPhone without the phone, which is the worst part of the iPhone.

My predictions: new colors for the Nano, camera added to the iPod touch (and maybe to the Nano), larger capacities all around. Classic gets bumped to 200 GB or more (since they USED to be 80 GB and 160 GB before settling in on 120-only) and gets accelerometer/voice recording/etc.

Sounds like an ad for the rumored "enhanced album format", harking back to the days kids would sit around listening to the music and gawking at the album sleeves and liner notes.

No brainer: announcement in September for a November release.

It's all been done before... to good results. The major difference this time around will be Steve Jobs making his comeback appearance to launch the new product (I wouldn't count on a tablet per se).

Because I am sure they closed the place for the shoot and everyone there signed a serious NDA and it could be only one or 2 people actually got to be hands on with "the" product. And if they ever want to work again in the industry you learn to respect the NDA's. Heck any product shot that might have happened might have been shot else where in a closed controlled studio.

So, how come noone is tweeting/blogging/forum commenting about what they saw?

This report is somewhat weird: how many Apple ads from the last – let's say five – years do you know that show something different than the barely more than just the product or some people before a featureless background?

Or, let me rephrase that: would you expect an Apple ad to be set in a restaurant?

Apple will wait for the free ipod campaign to end on September 8th. So probably 2-3 weeks after to avoid returns.

Every year apple depletes existing ipod inventory with the free back to school promotion. I think they will wait a short period of time so buyers don't feel taken or try to return. Because apple usually announces on a Tuesday or Wednesday I will go out on a limb and predict the 23rd of September.