New iPods!

To be honest, I thought this year's event was pretty shitty and a letdown for more that just a few people. Seeing as how you quoted Engadget, did you read the comments as well? Lots of dissatisfied people there. Seems to me that Apple is abusing its position as a monopoly now more than ever. It's just satisfied with delivering incremental updates every year. Don't get me wrong, it's still a good product, but way overhyped. The one thing I do love about this year's event though, is the 64gb ipod touch. That's really gonna push MS to release the 64gb version of the zune hd sooner in order to compete (hopefully in time for the holiday season).

Also, for crikes sake, improve the music quality of the ipod touch already. It's not the headphones fault, the touch's output quality really isn't up to par and is almost as bad as it was when it first came out. No matter how great your earphones are, if the source sucks, the sound sucks. Apple really needs to step its game up, more than a few companies (eg. Sony, Microsoft, Sandisk, Creative, etc.) have great alternatives to an ipod. Imho, Apple is just riding on its popularity now rather than actual product quality. The mast majority people seem to have only heard of an ipod nowadays. Point is, people should learn to compare and decide what's best for themselves instead of just following the crowd.

And honestly, has anyone ever considered an ipod touch when buying a handheld console? Btw, popularity =/= quality.

Yeah, just because it's negative it's trolling, right? If you take the time to read them, many of them ha e valid points. Apple being underrated on the Internet isn't much of a surprise, people that actually discuss things on the internet would at least be thinking about what they're buying.



No seriously, just do a quick google search and you'll find plenty of things about it being bad if you don't believe me. One site with 20 people don't equal a majority. And even from the site that you linked me to, in the first post, there's a ipod sound quality measurement that confirms that ipod sound isn't up to par with the competition. Btw, I do plan to get a Zune in the coming months. I'm long tired of my nano 2g, and I actually do hear a difference in sound quality when using the same headphones on my computer (a pair of sennheiser's albeit being a sport version).

Just because it's a favorite doesn't mean it's the best product out there. That's something I'm sure you'd say about Windows being the "favorite of the mast majority" as well. Apple being the market leader in the pmp area doesn't mean that they can just do whatever the hell they want and get away with it. The competition is making better products than them, but Apple is content to ride on their popularity instead of competing to give consumers the best choice for their money.



No, I don't think I'm being biased, just making an observation. Pretty sure you didn't notice, but the 8gb ipod touch isn't updated according to Apple themselves -- just check the store. If they're selling it alongside the newer versions advertised as "a great gaming machine," I assume that it's considered a gaming console as well, unless Apple is just bullshitting us. And according to Apple, premature console my ass, they think it's full fledged if they're going to post that ridiculous graph of the amount of games on the three devices. Hell you even posted that picture yourself.

I for one can't imagine playing better games that involve my thumbs blocking a third of the screen because I have to control it and the accelerometer, although nice, has flaws that prevent it from being a good portable console (eg. no zero point setting, tilting to control many games will wear off after a bit).

Honestly from all your posts about Apple, you're essentially a loyal follower that just accepts whatever bs they give you and justify it with absurd and/or flawed reasoning.