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Is it wednesday yet?

There goes one of the Zune's two differentiating features. The other (the color brown) is safe methinks.

High-capacity and NAND-flash at the same existing price??? Sorry, I don't think so.
Here we go again...huge speculation about possible features...then huge disappointment when they don't happen...then, tanking of the stock and instant poop on AAPL for not re-inventing the wheel, when, in fact, a touch screen anything similar to the iPhone is something no one is even close to doing, barring Nokia's admitted copy(without OSX).
A revolutionary iPod with touch screen...a disappointment on what everybody thinks Apple should do or should have done. Really predictable...can't please the sheep.

Sounds good to me.

I hope they offer a iPod dock hard drive/flash backup system too.

Oh and iTMS on the iPod.

This way I can give iPods as gifts to the "non-computer" users on my holiday list.

Sorry Zune Tang, your not on the list.

"High Capacity" and "NAND Flash" do not belong together in the same sentence. Also, NAND nor HDD "power" anything. Jeez, the level or writing in that report is painful.

AND new shuffles? I doubt that, unless you are just talking increased capacity.

"It's fun to get excited about a new gadget, but, alas, there is a potential downside for Apple, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.

"If it brings out a product that doesn't capture the excitement . . . I wonder if people will be disappointed because it doesn't come up to the levels of what's expected," Enderle said."

Georgy Porgy said it ... High-capacity and NAND-flash at the same existing price??? Sorry, I don't think so. Sure, the price of memory is dropping faster than the price of HD (measured by the GB), but it has a long way to go before it can be a reasonable match. Anyone care to guess how much it would cost to build a 30 GB iPod with RAM instead of HD?
No Matte? No Sale! ... I mistakenly left the light on behind me as I worked on my matte screen - an older 17" LCD from Apple - and discovered why I'd learned not to do that. The reflection was terrible! Washed out everything! Now, I'll admit this was pretty much a worst-case scenario - two 40" tubes almost directly behind me - but the glare made the screen almost unusable. Now, it was dead easy to stand up, walk a couple of feet, and flick the switch to make the problem go away ... but you have said the matte finish eliminates the problem. Keep dreaming.

Dave

I appreciate Apple for always improving their already great products. Can't wait to see one.

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Sounds 2 good 2 be true... : (

seems like NAND flash will be a step backward for capacity, but forward for media. maybe when flash memory can compete with HDD in storage space, the flash route might be a more valid one to go down.

my 2¢

When the rooster crows, it means:

a). It will rain a lot
b). It will rain just for a moment
c). It will not rain at all

MW step, as in forward

Like I want to squirt with you iPod lemmings. That's the thing about you MAC snobs. You think you're so superior. Well I've got news for you. Windows users are all about taste. Good taste. And no way in a million years would I want to hear what's on your sissy toy iPods because it's all probably sissy toy music. The Ronnie James Dio on my Zune is reserved for other Zune aficionados ONLY. MAC dorks stay out.

Your potential. Our passion.™

@Zune Tang

OK, so you hate Mac users and you hate iPods as well as the iPhone.

Lovely... why are you still coming here then? Do you just like our company?

I hope we will finally get HD content from iTunes tomorrow too.

@Chris

If I have a choice between a fishing spot where the fish regularly bit and a spot where the fish does not bite, where do I go to fish?

Mull it over, maybe get some help. When you have figured it out, you may understand why Zune Tang comes here. Or maybe not. Zune Tang operates on an intellectual level that obviously is unreachable by many of those who come here.

I'm getting a brown Zoon just so I can squirt butt-rock back and forth with ZT!

:-} Zune is at it again. I bet he/she has a 30" Cinema Display and a MacPro thats pimped out like crazy. No one, I repeat, no one is that crazy and not being sarcastic. He/she is a Mac user just having a bit of fun with the rest of us.

My predictions (based on no facts, just like all these articles)

1. Wifi enabled, but with a link to iTunes only, NO other capabilities.

2. Widescreen nano (will look awful)

3. 120 GB top model (HD, not NAND flash)

4. No new shuffle (come on! the new one just came out)

Just wait--I will be correct tomorrow!!

@Abraham Bainbridge

"Zune Tang operates on an intellectual level that obviously is unreachable by many of those who come here."

I don't think so. ZT's brain obviously is lower than whale crap!

@MikeR

Another one added to the list.