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Jan 13, 09 - 10:55 am Comment from: cptnkirk

Nothing to see here. Move on!

This is Apple's decoy.
Apple will introduce Pre killer, wait, Pre smearer, if Palm manages to launch Pre before iPhone 3.0

except it doesnt exisit

Exactly, what I meant to say is that Apple is working on iPhone 3.0, so the rumors about nano might be just a distraction

Jan 13, 09 - 01:30 pm Comment from: NCIceman

I fail to see the point of an "iPhone nano"...

Who says there's an iPhone nano? Where do these rumors come from?

The point would be that if you want to dominate the sector you have to offer more than a single form factor to a wider client base just as Apple realised when they produced additions to the a single model iPod. Whether this is the right time is another matter.

Jan 14, 09 - 01:06 pm Comment from: disposableidentity

No question the full iPod line worked effectively by occupying a large number of distinct spots in the MP3 market. Size, capacity, price-point, etc.

Which marketing "problems" can an iPhone Nano solve?
The only gap that seems worth filling at the moment would be something between a Touch and an iPhone.

It will only serve Apple's big-picture goals if it runs the same apps (which in my mind means a roughly similar size screen, at least for now). So the new phone can't be much smaller. Besides the iPhone isn't exactly large.

I suppose they could launch a GPS-less, 4GB iPhone.

If the price for the end-user was near zero (after the telco subsidy), it could be a winner and would help them capture a market they haven't tapped into yet.