Today when we hear about cool gadgets probably the word “iPad” will come up next, but we should not forget about that little thing that started this big bang a while ago: The iPod. Almost 10 years about the first appearance of this Apple MP3 player the results are amazing.
Here’s a pretty complete image about all the facts we need to know about iPod’s Revolution.
- Born in October of 2001
- 225 million iPods sold at this date.
- Apple owns de 74% of the MP3 player market share.
- 10 billion songs downloaded with iTunes.
- You need to spend U$S10.000 in iTunes songs to fill 25% capacity of 160GB iPod Classic.
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Apple’s has more news for us, and they are going to make it official this Wednesday, September 9 at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. So, what’s going to be? New versions for iPod Touch with cameras included (maybe including iPod nano) and new features for iTunes.
There are a lot of rumors, which unfortunately are only that, just rumors. Marco Arment made a few guesses around all those and here’s a quick review about what he said:
- New iPod touch version with the following features: camera, double the storage capacities, and new pricing: 8 GB for u$s149, 16 GB for u$s199, 32 GB for u$s249, 64 GB for u$s349.
- New iPod nano version with camera. But they will offer only one model: 8gb for u$s99
- iPod classic out of the market.
- New pricing for the iPod shuffle: u$s59.
You want more? iTunes will include new social network features; and this event will possibly have a special guest: Steve Jobs.
Yes, I didn’t mention anything about the Apple Tablet. Seems that there’s not going to be any announce around that, and they could possibly wait until next year to say something official about it.
