Video iPod??!!

[dnoch]

I, for one am so sick of apple changing their products every 3 - 6 months. The colour 20GB was barely out for 2 months (if that). It is great and all that they have finally brought out an iPod with videa capabilities, but this is getting too much! If they were planning o release this one, why did they release the color 20GB?
What are your views on this?

 

[Qiranworms]

While I agree that their product cycles are definitely fast, your exaggerating a bit. The color was out for more than two months, it was released in June.

But more to the point, does there being a newer and (hopefully) better product being released make your current product function any worse than it did when it was the current product?

 

[dnoch]

True, it does not, but it does mean that my product that was once upon a time worth a fair amount of money, worth a substantial amount less.
In South Africa, the color 20GB was out for about 2 months.
Perhaps I am exagerating, but it is annoying.
Why bother putting out one product for 5 months, when I am sure they had planned the video one at that stage.
For one year I had a mini. In that time, it has been replaced twice!
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that better products are being released, Apple have come a long way since their first gen iPod, but would it really kill them to have a product on the line for longer than 5 months?

 

[The General]

i am in both places ... its cool and all, but come out with a new product ... i personally think the ROKR should have been an ipod mini that flipped open into a flip phone... i would hqave considered buying it ... but yeah ... its kind of annoying how i just got my 20gb color and they already came out with a new one

 

[Lonewolf5460]

hopefully they are done for a while they completely revamped everything now what the hell could they think to add next ipod with gps !?!!.

i wonder if there is a way to do a firmware hack to let the "old" ipod photos to play video but i doubt it

 

[dnoch]

Ya, I doubt there will be anything like that, but hey, you never know

 

[The General]

ipodlinux will do it ... i trust

 

[-mist|mac-]

iPods are becoming like mobile phones. I'm starting to realize it's not worth to buy any of the new products that's been coming out. Well except for the nano. I love that thing, but that's the last iPod I'm gonna buy. Just like when I stopped buying new mobile phone. Last time I bought one was 3 years ago.

 

[mac_mogul]

I'm sorry, but people still ogle over my monochrome 20gig when I whip it out to change a song... So its no skin off my back if there's been two new replacements for it since I got it. I got my iPod and I'm happy with it. If you can't be happy with what you got, why have it?

 

[Lonewolf5460]

that is true but it would annoy me that in like a month a new one comes out and i just spent 300+ on a new ipod that is now "old"