TiPb Poll: What Will We See at “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it” Special Apple Music Event?
This Wednesday, September 9, Apple will present “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it“, their annual special music event that typically focuses on iPods and the iTunes ecosystem.
Expected to be seen are iTunes 9 with social networking and iPhone app management, 3rd generation iPod touch with camera, and iPod nano and iPod classic with with camera to be in the lineup.
“Cocktail” album packages, the usual Beatles on iTunes rumors, and of course iPhone OS 3.1.
TiPb will be doing our usual live meta-blog, and following it up with our weekly iPhone Live! podcast. But that’s then, this is now. We want to know what you think we’ll see. (Drop any details you might want to add into the comments!)
September 6th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
The math on this poll isn’t really correct. Each person should be counted as one vote, not every box every person checks. The percentages are all too low.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I personally think that there will be some crazy new iPod replacing the iPod classic or a cimpletly new for factor that appeals to the same group of iPod classic users. And of course all of the other speculation and iPhone 3.1.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Can’t wait to see if iTunes has app-management options. I can see a camera in a new Touch, but not the nano.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
How come Bluetooth file transfers to iPods and iPhones isn’t an option?
September 7th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Looking forward to app management and iPhone 3.1 most of all!!!
September 7th, 2009 at 3:19 am
Almost certainly the Beatles, the same day that the remastered albums come out is deliberate.
3.1 and new iPods with camera as well
September 7th, 2009 at 5:14 am
I say, in this order, sales figures, 3.1, iTunes 9 (but with no SN features) which comes out that day, Cocktail, stock ringtones, classic 2g with camera, nano 5g with camera, touch 3g with camera, shuffle price drop, new Apple TV (just in time for the new season), and finally, Steve onstage with Paul McCartney and possibly Yoko Ono to announce immediate availability of the entire remastered Beatles catalog on iTunes in Cocktail.
Oh, and world peace.
September 7th, 2009 at 8:36 am
World peace isnt possible with apple they still dont want. Me to jailbreak my iphone and use it on tmobile. sigh. Oh well im screwin them over with installous for ******** me over. Eat it apple!
September 7th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Don’t care about ipods. Or their music event. But you have to hand it to Apple for tying in interest to the iphone. Because i’ll be watching it for the details
September 7th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I want the app management, but could care less about social networking unless they introduce iChat to compete with BBM.
September 7th, 2009 at 11:35 am
well obviously there’s the iPod touch will be a major feature . . . if you look at the pic that’s the type of iPod she’s holding.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
It is very bad form to combine 3G processor and camera and leave it as the only option for the iPod touch. You took something that is almost certain and combined it with something incredibly unlikely just to minipulate a response.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Nick:
Or it might be an iPhone or classic being held upside down.
September 7th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Oh, forgot something from my prediction: OS3.1’s iPod/Music app will be fully Cocktail-compatible as will the new Apple TV firmware and iTunes 9. Also, new Apple TV will have a drastic price drop. iTunes 9 will include support for the multitouch (Apple TV) controls in Remote, as will the newest version of Front Row.
Not expecting this to happen, but Hulu on Apple TV would be awesome. Hulu that integrates with your pre-existing library would be really awesome. And all that plus video input with a built-in HD DVR that autosyncs OTA to iTunes via Bonjour… That. Would. Be. Awesome. I may actually buy an Apple TV if this happens. Maybe.
Also, really not expecting this to happen, but OTA iTunes syncing through MobileMe.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I believe the iPod Classic will be discontinued, and will be replaced by an iPod Touch with a 128gb solid state drive, along with the usual 16gb, 32gb and 64gb flash memory models. Only problem is, are the 128gb solid state drives now small and cheap enough to put into an iPod Touch or similar product?
September 8th, 2009 at 5:24 am
If Apple ups the ante to 128 GB on the Touch, then I agree, the Classic is gone. But I think that’s unlikely. It will increase to 64 GB and come in 32 GB and 8 GB flavors as well, but the Classic will stick around for another year at 160 GB. It won’t be until next year that the Touch ultimately replaces the Classic.
September 8th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Considering the price of HDDs compared to SSDs, I’d rather have an HDD-based touch.
I had a 30GB HDD-based Creative Zen Xtra for five years. The HDD never failed me once. By the end of those 5 years, the faceplate/battery cover was held on with Krazy Glue and I had to downgrade Windows Media Player just so the last firmware update that I did wouldn’t brick it. But the HDD still worked.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
A hard drive would double the thickness of the Touch. Also, solid state drives have every advantage over platters.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Except price and capacity. If I can get a video subscription (or if DVD ripping is legalized) then my touch could be 2 inches thick and I wouldn’t care.
September 8th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
^ Except price and capacity. If I can get a video subscription (or if DVD ripping is legalized) then my touch could be 2 inches thick and I wouldn’t care.