Well, flash memory is up to pretty good sizes right now. The iPods are
flash based, not solid state. In theory they could easily release a
64gb flash iPod if they so chose at a relatively reasonable price
point. Now, if the iPods were solid state you'd be paying some pretty
good money for them.
The trouble with implementing speech on the classic, even should apple
keep it around, is that its hard drive would need to spin up every
time it wished to speak. It wouldn't be a problem in menus, but if you
pressed an option that required speech while music was actually
playing, odds are your hd would need to spin back up and you'd have a
delay of a few seconds before you heard anything. To add to this,
you'd drain your battery fairly quickly if you repeatedly spin up the
hard drive this way.
On Mar 11, 2009, at 13:16, Dean Wilcox wrote:
>
> I heard the same a while back but they must replace it somehow? The
> solid state iPods like the Nano and Shuffle are great and small but
> the people with over 100 gigs in their library will want something
> similar. Myself I only have close to 40GB and I don't really know
> what kind of iPod I want any more. Since I've started using iTunes
> it makes more sence to use play lists seen as I like iTunes so much.
>
> At 15:20 11/03/2009, you wrote:
>
>> Seconded. I want a talking classic as much as the next music junkie,
>> but I doubt there'll ever be one, not in it's current form anyway.
>>
>> On 3/11/09, Jacob Schmude <j.schm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wouldn't make sense, seeing as Apple has hinted the classic won't be
>>> around much longer.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2009, at 11:02, Dean Wilcox wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> A talking Iphone? Lets keep it simple for now and go for the iPod
>>>> clasic!
>>>>
>>>> At 14:32 11/03/2009, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> hmm, nice cheery outlook you've got there Will, lol.
>>>>>
>>>>> I should imagine the main thrust of this will be the playlist
>>>>> selection. 4gb of songs would be quite a hefty amount to flick
>>>>> through to try and locate a particular album.
>>>>>
>>>>> What struck me as interesting about this though is that the
>>>>> shuffle
>>>>> has no screen, so people who're going to take advantage of
>>>>> playlisting
>>>>> are relying solely on VO, just like us. If nothing else it's
>>>>> nice to
>>>>> see Apple openly putting some faith into a spoken interface. If
>>>>> this
>>>>> is a hit with the consumers, it could go a long way towards
>>>>> speeding
>>>>> up talking interfaces for their other products.
>>>>>
>>>>> *cough* iPhone? iPhone Mr Jobs?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/11/09, william lomas <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hi apple now have a talking ipod shuffle. what is the point
>>>>>> in this?
>>>>>> if people can't even tell what song they are listening to that
>>>>>> crazy lol
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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