Apple Expected To Unveil New iPod Next Week

Apple Inc. has officially set Sept. 9 as the date for its next music-themed product launch event in San Francisco.

Apple unveiled redesigned iPod Nano music players at a similarly timed event last year.

The iPod and iPhone maker sent an invitation to journalists Monday morning that reads, "It's only rock and roll, but we like it," borrowed from a Rolling Stones lyric.

Apple keeps a tight lid on upcoming products and hasn't confirmed any rumored developments, including a plan to package extra digital content with albums sold on iTunes, and a new tablet-style device.

The Wall Street Journal adds that this almost certainly means a new line of iPods will be unveiled:

Apple typically unveils its new lineup of iPods every year around this time. Some analysts predict that Apple will introduce a digital camera feature in the iPod touch and possibly the classic iPod and iPod nano models.

"We're expecting they'll renew the entire lineup with the exception of the iPod shuffle," said Gene Munster, an industry analyst for Piper Jaffray, referring to Apple's smallest iPod, which was refreshed in the spring.

Software developers for Apple's App Store say the development kit for an upcoming version of the iPhone operating system -- which also runs on the iPod touch -- opens up more camera features, making it possible to come up with more innovative photo-taking applications for both devices. The development kit refers to the set of tools that third-party software engineers use to create the so-called Apps -- or applications -- which can be downloaded from the App Store

Comments

[Smirk]

The bitchiness of the Apple vs. PC debate that always crops up whenever Apple releases a new product is absurd. Preferring one to the other should not be grounds for incivility.

[SleepNewYork]

Apple is

a

cult.

[PennP]

"The iPod and iPhone maker sent an invitation to journalists Monday morning that reads, 'It's only rock and roll, but we like it,' borrowed from a Rolling Stones lyric."

Borrowing from the Ohio Players' "Fire" would have made more sense.

[Sherri Tunis]

Apple products are great for the most part. What is really bothersome is the speed with which they come out with replacement computers and iPods. For the kind of money we are spending, it would be nice if they gave the Macs and iPods a few months to get scratched! This ongoing promotion of new products usurping the "old" is disheartening and betrays the people out there that are Apple loyalists.

[LincolnParkChicago]

What does shmirn mean?

[Pierangelo]

And here I was, wondering where I was going to get my entertainment from, when I find the Apple haters vs Apple lovers hurl half baked insults and self-inflating arguments like so many monkeys throwing poo at each other.

(In the interests of full disclosure, I have an iPhone, because only one national carrier works where I live and that's AT&T; an XBox 360, because I'm love Valve software games, and a PC, because I got a free Dell laptop from my brother that still works 5 years later because I take care it).

[norepublicanleftbehind]

Hey- can you come out with an IPOD 2012 --the end of the old world and the beginning of the new

[OldHick]

Apple labored to bring forth a mouse.

Now the Chinese make the mice. All in all, this company is not the same one that started up in that garage years ago. Too bad there is not an American Apple computer again.

[SwingingFromCenter]

I have to admit, punishing Apple users is one of my great joys these days. It just tickles me.

Take the iPhone. I have a G1. Coworker got the Apple product and was bragging that it did this or this. At each stage I said "Yup, mine does that too. Yup, that too. Mmmhmm, does that". Flabbergasted the poor guy. Then the coup d'gras: "Oh, and mine's an open platform and not restrictive like Apple's, so it'll be the dominant mobile platform going forward". One down.

The cliched "Mac's are awesome and so much more secure!". I actually got this from a friend of mine some time back. So I cracked into his home network, invaded his box, ran a backup so actually lost nothing, and then remotely dumped his disk. And then for good measure pointed out to him that I did it with a box that was just as powerful, except cost about 1/3 as much. And then of course reimaged his disk for him. So much for his security.

The coffeehouse laptop users. These guys are my favourites. Nothing quite like breaking into their system because they don't understand the logistics of wifi and opening a scratchpad on their machine to tell them their "cool" machine just makes em look like a su.cker.

And of course the iPod crowd. They're just too easy. They know other companies make better music players, they just refuse to accept that buying the Apple product makes them chumps.

[rjcrawford33]

THe proper term is "coup de grâce" (a merciful death blow) . Gras means fat.

[StephBr]

However you can easily kill people with bacon.

Merci for helping saving the French language :-)
Now let's go after the petitE croissants!

[smarternu]

Wow you are soooooo cool

[StephBr]

I noticed that too, and isn't so clever also?

[StephBr]

I used PCs I now use Macs.
I am a photographer and the computer is a tool for my work. Can you do anything you do on a Mac on a PC? Absolutely, the only difference is that back in my PC days I was spending WAY too much time repairing, maintaining my machines. Back ups were never reliable.The problem was never the hardware but this Windows disaster. The OS is degrading little by little no matter what. Rebuilding a system takes you a day with the installs and updates.
On the Mac, when your HD dies, yes, Apple's hardware is chosen carefully but it does die at some point of course, all you have to do is boot from your back up drive maintained by Super-Duper. You remove the dead drive, boot from the back up (internal or not) and copy the back up to you new boot drive. 20 minutes lost at most. Try that on your Dell...
Since I switched I am actually using the computer instead of maintaining it.

[bryz]

I love Apple.
Love my pod and my book.
I had PC's before.

Never again.
PC's are for the masses......

[FHTB]

Apple is the most overhyped garbage in commercial history.

What use is an MP3 player that has no radio?
What use is an MP3 player that cannot record radio?
What use is an MP3 player that can't even play HD radio?
What use is an MP3 player that can't play HD video?

The Macs are confusing nonsense...tried it...hated it...
Why do I have to use their stupid store to play music? NOT happening...
Register with a credit card? AGAIN...not happening...
A friend saw that...took the Ipod and tossed in the trash...where it belongs.

[SkuddGobang]

Um... you don't have to use their "store" to play music, nor do you have to register it with a credit card. If a mac confuses you, though, I can see how you're not quite bright enough to use an iPod.

[SwingingFromCenter]

The only mp3 player I know of that can do that is the Sirius Stiletto. You're askin an awful lot of one device.

And this is coming from someone who despises Apple.

[StephBr]

What's the point of a washing machine that doesn't cook?
I Never-Ever listen to the radio, see, the MP3 player allows you to listen to what you want, when you want as opposed to the radio telling what you should like and bombarding you with idiotic DJ talk and advertising.

[SarcasticFringehead]

I agree with you.
Mac's are the best.

[Harold Stone]

Apple does make very pleasing products, and their computers are great for people who just want to use one without having to make it work in a particular way to get a job done. Macs are unintimidating and neatly dressed. They are the Bobby Shermans of the computer world.

[SarcasticFringehead]

If you're doing anything in a creative field, Mac's the are best.
No, not Bobby Sherman, more like the Rolling Stones.
Accountants and people who use spread sheets (yawn) really do well with PC's.

[SwingingFromCenter]

And the financially smart.

Let's see: Your "pod" cost about 3 times as much as a competitive brand that has more features and better reliability. So you got sc.rewed there.

And you paid about 3 times what your laptop was worth just so you could have the "cool" Apple logo.

The fact is, Apple products are designed for people who want to hang out at coffee houses thinking they look cool while the techies laugh at them behind their backs.

[Percolater]

So I guess PC's are For Dummies!

You sound like someone who has Mac envy.

If you believe that computer for computer Macs and iPods don't give you more value then be happy with your crap.

For most thoughtful people "Once you go Mac you will never go back!

By the way, I became a Mac user long before anyone considered them "cool".

The coolest part of Apple products is how well the hardware and software function together.

[Gerahufff]

No, actually, and somewhat ironically given all the criticism, Apple products are designed for people who are more interested in the final product, than the machine that helps them create it. I've been a mac user all my life, and they have served me well. The art world prefers macs for a reason - they're better instruments for creativity.

[RevengeIsNear]

I tried PC, but went back to Mac in the late 90s. I spend a lot less re-booting, screen freezing and trying to track down an IT person for registry, blue screen problems. I just keep my Mac on all the time, and it just hums along. You may pay a little more, but you get what you pay for.

[Golden Ticket]

Hopefully this new version won't explode and mame people like previous versions did!!!!

[FHTB]

You will have the Ipod?macaholics come on here and spread their propaganda and some of you, being sheeple that you are, will bow and scrape to their silliness...some of us refuse to be beholden to a company just because it's popular with the nerdy set or with those who imagine that in some alternate universe they might be considered cool.

[SarcasticFringehead]

Mac's have always been, and still are ... Cool.
The bean counters can keep their PC's.

[Percolater]

You will have the PC troglodytes come on here and spread their propaganda and some of you, being sheeple that you are, will bow and scrape to their silliness...some of us refuse to be beholden to a company just because it sold an inadequate operating system that it has tried to force on people since the beginning, or with those who imagine that in some alternate universe they might be considered not as clueless as they seem to appear.

[protoceratops]

:)

[cedy]

totally honest here, Apple computers crash just as much as PC's.

The difference is, with apples, you don't know what happened, you just get a spinning wheel of death

One thing that irritates me to no end is that each window doesn't have it's own tools, you have to go to the top window which "should" contain all the tools, i hate that, truly hate that.

Apple's tag line says that they work like people think, ok, what people are they talking about?

in case you missed the inference, I do use PC 's all the time, but I use apple's too and honestly I can't stand apples.

double honest here, they all suck ( yes linsux too)

I prefer vinyl records and two spouts on sinks with a rubber stopper at the drain. It never breaks down and is good for a generation. You cannot say that with modern sinks. The little pop-up drain blocker thing leaks from the start and gets progressively worse.

The new way of things is not always a success. Kids are lazy, adults are panic striden wack jobs. and I have had it up to my ears with mp3, cars I cannot work on, monkey pushing button jobs, and god forsaken apple computers.

Republicans piss me off more than anything.

[Amalek]

I think we found ourselves a teabagging democrat

[cedy]

no, relax, that was just a rant from frustration from modern life. i truly meant what I said, it wansn't so much of a political statement. I am safely a democrat who thinks teabaggers are garbage people.

I believe in the late 60's someone wrote a book called "future shock" and i have a mild case of it this week, my photoshoot had massive software failure and i'm just a little miffed at apple right now. ( the software came from israel which has no bearing on my point just that most creative software is designed for apple).

[elspaniard]

As an iPhone user with their contract coming to an end, this is the only thing that will make me consider keeping my iPhone. AT&T's service is a joke.

Their prices are beyond insane. The bare minimum plan is $70 out of the gate, with no texting. It's an additional $20/mo for unlimited texting. $10 more than the industry standard. On top of that, I can't even begin to tell you how many were lost and didn't even arrive in my history using the iPhone. And the icing on the cake is AT&T has gimped the iPhone by not allowing one of its core features, MMS.

Furthermore, their 3G coverage is sparse at best. Many customers, such as myself, are relegated to only Edge coverage, yet we have to pay the same prices as those enjoying the full benefit of the advertised 3G network. More or less paying full price for half the service. That is, if you can even get a signal. I live not a mile from one of their towers, yet I only see 2 bars of signal strength. And that's on a good day. And even when I do have full bars, the Edge network either constantly times out, doesn't work at all or is so slow that I would consider dial-up speeds an improvement.

So in summation, if Apple wants to keep my business, they'll dump AT&T as their exclusive pusher.

[SwingingFromCenter]

Or you could be smart, switch to T-Mobile, and get a G1 on the Android platform.

Apple, frankly, is too restrictive with the way they do business. The Android platform is going to be the dominant one as time goes on because it's open. And with Google backing it...there's really no stopping it.

Apple products are for people with no common sense and an easily swayed sense of "cool" from marketing departments.

[andresfusion]

I love apple, the only thing I hate about the company is that everything is made in China. But besides that, their products are always one step ahead.

[Ganapati]

The only thing more preposterous than Apple maniacs are the Apple haters.
At least the lovers HAVE the object they fetishize... But to bash a product that you don't consume... what is the point? Is Apple so powerful that it has generated philosophy, politics?
I am an Apple-maniac, Macs and iPods are good products.
(It is OK to talk about products, right? or is this a sin? Relax and listen to your music.

[SwingingFromCenter]

The difference is, the haters didn't pay 3 times what an item was worth for nothing more than a logo