Last hebdomad , when pondering today ’s Apple music case , I gazed into my hazy crystal ball and suggested a few avenues Apple might take . I ended the piece with “ We ’ll see how ordered these thoughts are next week . ” So , now that the event is over , allow ’s perform precisely that reckoning .
New Apple TV. Score: Win(ish)
I grade a solid win for suggesting that Apple would denote a new Apple TV . The original Apple TV was very long in the tooth and have no love from Apple . It was meter .
The dubiousness was , what would Apple do to make it a more compelling ( and better selling ) machine ? I ignore both a Blu - beam player and DVR and , as I expected , they made no visual aspect . Rather , I put my money on streaming — specifically pelt content not so much from your estimator but rather from your subject matter stash away on the cloud . And , in this regard , I was woefully mistaken . Whatever Apple ’s doing with its rumored monumental North Carolina waiter adeptness , it ’s not quick to announce its intention much less unveil that adeptness as a depot for the public ’s medium .
What we got instead is an Apple telecasting whose purpose is not terribly dissimilar from the Apple video we have today . Unlike the original Apple TV , this is a stream gimmick only — no repositing . And the new Apple TV streams Netflix content in addition to the YouTube and Flickr access it already had . But the port is little different from the current manakin and well out the contents of your iTunes program library and buying / renting media from the iTunes Store persist a key component of its being .
This Apple TV has two unexpected thing going for it — the $ 99 price tag and its AirPlay feature , which allows you to stream contentedness from an iOS twist to the Apple TV ( and thus , your connected TV ) . consider that Apple agitate $ 49 for composite and ingredient cables that let you play telecasting from an iPod , iPhone , or iPad on your TV , this is quite a bargain .
What did n’t pan out is the Apple TV as an iOS twist . And with that evaporated dream execute the power to stream a wider variety of depicted object ( Hulu and Rhapsody , for example ) and the notion of the Apple TV as a gaming automobile .
iPod touch. Score: Win
I said we ’d see an iPod touch with front- and rear - face cameras that supported FaceTime and that ’s exactly what we got . Bonus is the retina display .
iPod nano. Score: Loss
I had high hopes for the nano — it might flash stills as well as television and admit Wi - Fi for stream euphony . What I incur was not only a nano that does n’t do Wi - Fi , but one that has also lost its television camera and ability to play video . While Apple brought a touch port to the nano , it more clear draw a line between the traditional iPods and iOS devices . If you want to play television , Apple will point you to the iPhone , iPod touch , and iPad . If you want to sprout movies or still , it ’s the iPod touch and iPhone ( and maybe , someday , the iPad ) . The traditional iPod are now for consuming audio solely .
iPod classic. Score: Win
You could n’t be much more accurate than “ … I have to think that the iPod classic has reached the end of the road . ” ( If you discount the “ If Apple admit pour ” that precedes that statement . ) Apple continues to sell the iPod classic for $ 249 , but it has n’t been updated and merited not a single credit from Steve Jobs . The writing is on the paries . It ’s going the way of the dodo .
iPod shuffle. Score: Win
I hoped that Apple would relent and put some button back on the iPod shambling . And , certain enough , it did . It also observe the power to navigate the gadget with your headset . So , everyone ’s felicitous — and happier still that the new shuffle is available for just $ 49 ( though with half the mental ability at 2 GB than the 3 G iPod shuffling ) .
No, no, and no. Score: Win
I declare no smaller iPad declaration . And it was so ( the non - announcement , not the smaller iPad ) . Likewise , no iLife or iWork proclamation or newfangled computers .
160GB iPod classic (second generation, late 2009)
Apple TV (2nd gen., late 2010)
16GB iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010)
2GB iPod shuffle (fourth generation, late 2010)
32GB iPod touch (fourth generation, late 2010)
64GB iPod Touch (fourth generation, late 2010)
8GB iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010)
8GB iPod touch (fourth generation, late 2010)
