Apple Adds Video Camera To iPod Nano, Cuts Prices For iPod Touch

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled new features for the iPod Nano and price cuts for other iPods during a media event Wednesday in San Francisco.

The new iPod Nano now sports a video camera, among other things. Macworld has the details:

The new iPod comes in 8GB and 16GB models, priced at $149 and $179, respectively. The music players now feature a video camera and microphone on the back of the device along with a built-in speaker. The nano can display video or sync it back to your computer for uploading to YouTube.

Jobs' appearance was his first since undergoing a liver transplant. Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, opened up about his surgery:

"I now have the liver of a mid-20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. I wouldn't be here without such generosity," an emotional Jobs told the audience, exhorting them to all become organ donors.

Apple cut prices for the iPod Touch, basically an iPhone without the phone capabilities. The 8 GB model now costs $199, or $30 less. Prices for larger Touch models stayed the same, but the storage space was doubled; a 32 GB version of the Touch now goes for $299 and a 64 GB model for $399.

The company also announced a new version of iTunes. The latest, iTunes 9, cleans up the software design and gives people more control over what gets loaded onto iPods and iPhones. It also lets five computers on the same home network share -- by streaming or copying -- music, video and other content, a departure from the strict copy protection Apple insisted on in the past.

Read Apple's press release about the Nano's new features, iPod price cuts and iTunes9.

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Comments

[liberal user]

05:05 PM on 09/10/2009

Bring back the Glass Stegal Act to promote fair competition and eradicate monopolies and too big to fail conglomerates.

Do not allow foreign owned multinationals to own too much American real estate or stock in any individual American manufacturer or corporation.

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[KindAndThoughtful]

03:55 PM on 09/10/2009

Steve Jobs is a genius and a national treasure.

[jsgaetano]

02:31 PM on 09/10/2009

I hear Steve Jobs got his new liver in exchange for giving someone an early look at the iTablet.

[Harrier]

07:10 AM on 09/10/2009

How is a reduction of $30 a drastic price reduction?

[jsgaetano]

02:32 PM on 09/10/2009

A $30 price drop on something with an Apple logo is pretty drastic.

[Harrier]

07:02 AM on 09/10/2009

Strangely, I prefer the earlier models over the new. Apple had the capability of doing this long ago. If you can slap on a sound recorder, you can slap on a video and sound recorder. The built out the video as part of their incremental and obsolescence. If they gave you all the features at once, they would not have been able to sell you all the incremental changes a long the way.

I personally like the 30GB 5.5 Gen video iPod the best. I had a friend who's stopped running. He bought a new one and sold me the broken one for $30. I put in a new battery that last longer than his and added an 80GB hard drive that is faster. My ipod is stronger and better than his new one because he has coverflow than constantly hangs up his iPod. Apple's game is to make a product they don't want the consumer to fix and then sell you the incremental changes and control the supply of parts to upgrade or fix their products because the want it to die and you to buy a new one

[Goliadkin]

05:28 AM on 09/10/2009

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once."—Albert Einstein

[tracyjump]

01:44 AM on 09/10/2009

Microsoft Zune HD: Can it defeat Apple IPod touch ?? Which one do you want to choose?
http://www.convert-video-dvd.com/news/zune-hd-vs-ipod-touch.html

[Goliadkin]

04:43 AM on 09/10/2009

I've got to admit, Zune has a far more advanced doorstop function than iPod. It's wedge-like shape and rubbery outer covering make it ideal for propping pesky portals. I bet Apple didn't see that coming!

[raaf]

08:21 PM on 09/09/2009

Apple seems really good at marketing, personally I have no use for their overpriced c.rap and I wish HuffPo would stop putting this stuff on the homepage.

[mrcontinental]

09:52 PM on 09/09/2009

You have something against legitimate news?

[publanski]

10:17 PM on 09/09/2009

No, just this product placement.

[MaxPowerXP]

09:58 AM on 09/10/2009

This is only "News" for spoiled white people.

[FRobert]

10:21 PM on 09/09/2009

If you don't enjoy music or pictures then I would agree that you don't need an iPod. I find them to be very valuable.

[october2009]

07:30 PM on 09/09/2009

If we had third party insurance companies that bought our electronics, I guarantee you that Apple would raise their prices and sell their Ipods for a lot more money.

Those people who couldn't afford paying for their electronics insurance would end up having to pay the inflated prices.

Plus, if our politicians made laws about what Steve Jobs can and cannot build, we'd still be using cassette player Walkmans to listen to our music.

Freedom in the marketplace creates competition and competition creates prices to come down and quality to go up. The technology sector is a perfect example of that.

[NealHib]

08:21 PM on 09/09/2009

You miss a very important aspect of this argument, you don't need an IPOD to live.
Lack of an IPOD will allow you to be less distracted.
Lack of health care will kill you.
If conservatives don't want health care,
I'm in favor of not giving them any.

[amdezurik]

08:55 PM on 09/09/2009

don't bother, it's just another astro-turfed cut'n'paste-spam bot

[publanski]

10:18 PM on 09/09/2009

Maybe you don't need an mp3 player to live, but I do.

[Rod Johnson 1]

11:00 PM on 09/09/2009

I like how the price of WIndows OS keeps coming down. I'm not even sure what your argument is (it's confusing).

Are you saying if Apple had cheaper competition, they would raise their prices and people would have to pay those prices cause they can't afford electronics insurance?

WHAT????

And the government is going to control what Steve Jobs makes (like with patents or something) and if we let this happen we're all gonna be using walkman?

Freedom in the market place does create competition, but it also creates monopolies.
Competition might cause the price to come down, but you example, the iPod does not demonstrate that. In fact they just released a new iPod and the only real competition is themselves.

[sparky73]

07:19 PM on 09/09/2009

I think Obama should offer Steve Jobs a post in his administration. Even though we are in a depression Apple still sells a ton of products. Maybe Jobs could help us get out of the recession?

[mikebarden]

06:55 PM on 09/09/2009

Wasn't there this movie about Pod People?

[Goliadkin]

04:58 AM on 09/10/2009

Yeah, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." It came out in 1956, nearly half a century before the iPod. And?

[SiddArthur]

06:23 PM on 09/09/2009

This article has the prices wrong on the Nano. 16g now $179, not $149. 8g now $129.

[annakay1]

06:15 PM on 09/09/2009

I don't need a toy. I need a productivity tool. That is why I have a Blackberry not an iphone. Yes, I don't have a farting app but if my battery goes or drops in memory retainage I can always replace it. Not so with Apple. It seems like Apple can keep putting out inferior products and live off the hype!?

[simplify]

06:35 PM on 09/09/2009

Well there are a lot of people who despite all its inherent problems still love their iphone. Dont be a hater

[amdezurik]

08:56 PM on 09/09/2009

yeah, and a few hundred lost all coverage in Sonoma county last month when AT&T dropped their area. so now they have very expensive paperweights when they are at home.

[amdezurik]

08:58 PM on 09/09/2009

the take-away point would be not so much the product as the "support" and the way it is locked down. but that is typical of CrApple

[Azsin]

06:45 PM on 09/09/2009

black berrys suck
ipods have been leaders for about 8 years now even with the crappy economy they fly off the shelves
and i work retail!

[weebils]

06:07 PM on 09/09/2009

I'm going back to the 8 track. Those things are great for carrying in your purse for protection. But seriously the prices for apple products are still too high. Microsoft and Apple are both evil conglomerates.

[YewNeekId]

05:57 PM on 09/09/2009

Apple used to be such a nice American company, but IMHO they're just a front operation for C'ommunist China now.

When Apple starts making products in the US again and starts hiring US workers, I'll but a new gizmo.

[weebils]

06:09 PM on 09/09/2009

Agree. They and Microsoft have outsourced jobs, undercut American workers and bought in record numbers of visa workers.

[lordjin]

06:25 PM on 09/09/2009

Agreed. And the recent story about a Chinese plant engineer who was beaten because he misplaced an Iphone prototype he'd been working on surely serves to enforce our disdain. He ended up committing suicide.

But who cares as long as I have my iFart, right? Yeah... Boo Apple.

I'd throw out my iMac if I didn't need it so much. Psh.

[sparky73]

07:21 PM on 09/09/2009

well...we could have them made here in the united states but the Mac would probably cost 4-5 thousand dollars instead of 1500 to 3000. People like cheap stuff. That's why the majority of Americans shop at Walmart :(