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COMING SOON to an iFreak Near You ..

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SiempreTuna

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.. another reason to hate Apple :rofl:

Tim Cook has hinted that there will be a new iToy next year!

Wow! The excitement is all too .. little

So waddy'all reckon: will it be iTV, iWatch or iGlasses?

Or could it be .. iSomethingElse?

If it's iTV, I'm in trouble: my missus is a total iFreak and after much persuasion, we just bought a Samsung :eek:
 
I bet on a new iTV with all the Google/Android/Chrome TV stuff, or an iWatch to compete with that stupid Galaxy Gear.
 
That would be my favourite, too.

Ooops!

Honest: I didn't deliberately upgrade my 8 year-old TV right now because I thought there was an Apple TV coming ..
 
Apple just might have to give us some new iThings. Don't know if anyone else noticed, there was no new iPods this year, no mention at all at the last iEvent. I got a feeling Apple might be iDiscontinuing them....the iPod Touch could become the iPad Nano.
 
Have to say, I'm amazed people still buy MP3 players when pretty much everybody (first world problem alert!) already carries a phone that plays MP3s and has plenty of storage (at least, compared to the nanos and the like).

Of course, I'm sure Apple will continue to sell them as long as people buy them, but my guess is it's not really worth their time and money pushing out as many new models as they did in the past.
 
That issue must have been limited to older phone models: my missus upgraded her iP5 and didn't have any issues and she doesn't have issues with her new iP5s.
 
SiempreTuna said:
Have to say, I'm amazed people still buy MP3 players when pretty much everybody (first world problem alert!) already carries a phone that plays MP3s and has plenty of storage (at least, compared to the nanos and the like).

Of course, I'm sure Apple will continue to sell them as long as people buy them, but my guess is it's not really worth their time and money pushing out as many new models as they did in the past.
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I can still see people buying an mp3 player. There are people that don't want to use their phone for that. I still have my old iPod, and I have to say that I appreciate that my music doesn't get interrupted by a phone call or text message, while I have it plugged into the car stereo.
 
:ditto: Plus iPhones and their mp3 only cousins really do sound better playing the same files. I've tested that on almost every iIteration against Pocket PCs, Windows mobile phones and a couple of Android phones. I have a daughter whose a major iFan. I haven't put her stuff up against an HTC One though. I still think they can be beat, I just haven't actually heard a device do it yet.
 
Codegerm said:
I can still see people buying an mp3 player. There are people that don't want to use their phone for that. I still have my old iPod, and I have to say that I appreciate that my music doesn't get interrupted by a phone call or text message, while I have it plugged into the car stereo.
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MP3 players are good for exercising as well since they're lighter and smaller then a large smartphone.
 
From the rumors and speculations in that article, I don't see anything interesting coming out of Apple for the future. There's nothing revolutionary or ground breaking there. It's just an iteration and a spin of what's already there.

Now Motorola and Phoneblocks Project Ara, that's ground breaking and interesting. Whether or not it's possible is one thing. But the concept is quite revolutionary. In Motorola's hands, I think it's more possible.
 
SiempreTuna said:
That issue must have been limited to older phone models: my missus upgraded her iP5 and didn't have any issues
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I've seen both 4S and 5 models with borked wifi after the iOS7 update, so it's certainly not limited to older ones.

she doesn't have issues with her new iP5s.
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To be expected, as it's the update itself that seems to cause problems; devices shipped with iOS7 aren't affected.

As to new iProducts.... my money's on wearable tech to compete with Google's Glass and (rumoured) smartwatch.
 
If it's wearable tech, Google better look out - Apple are gonna patent high tech glasses!

Actually, they're probably gonna patent glasses :eek:

We're all going to have to pay royalties ..
 
SiempreTuna said:
Have to say, I'm amazed people still buy MP3 players when pretty much everybody (first world problem alert!) already carries a phone that plays MP3s and has plenty of storage (at least, compared to the nanos and the like).
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MP3 players are good for children who are too young to have a cell phone. Practically every child under 10 in my family has an iPod.
 
SiempreTuna said:
If it's wearable tech, Google better look out - Apple are gonna patent high tech glasses!

Actually, they're probably gonna patent glasses :eek:

We're all going to have to pay royalties ..
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That's Apple's way of doing things. The term iPhone wasn't theirs to begin with. It belonged to Cisco first.
 
SiempreTuna said:
Have to say, I'm amazed people still buy MP3 players when pretty much everybody (first world problem alert!) already carries a phone that plays MP3s and has plenty of storage (at least, compared to the nanos and the like).
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Plenty compared to the Nanos and the like, sure, but when a first world person has a large music collection and wants to have it all wherever they go, a phone just doesn't cut it. (My collection is over a hundred Gigs and growing, and that's as mp3 @ 128kbps. I stopped counting CDs at 2,000)
 
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