Tajtan
09-09-2008, 11:24 AM
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080909/ap_on_hi_te/tec_apple_ipods
The iPod upgrades Jobs revealed Tuesday in a theater in San Francisco include two slick new Nano models, oval-shaped devices that Jobs said are the thinnest iPods Apple has ever made. A $149 version comes with 8 gigabytes of memory; a 16-gigabyte version is $199.
The new models represent the incredible appetite for iPods — Jobs said Apple has sold 160 million iPods since their introduction. But Apple has to work hard to differentiate them from the iPhone, Apple's cell phone/iPod/Internet device that threatens to cannibalize some of the demand for iPods.
Jobs also showed off three new versions of the iPod Touch, the closest cousin to the iPhone. An 8-gigabyte version of the new model will sell for $229; a 16-gigabyte version will be $299 and a 32 GB model will be $399.
In the deal with NBC, the television network is coming back to iTunes, a year after pulling out in a dispute over the prices Apple charges for shows it sells on the online service. At that time, NBC Universal-controlled television programming made up an estimated 40 percent of the video downloads on iTunes.
The iPod upgrades Jobs revealed Tuesday in a theater in San Francisco include two slick new Nano models, oval-shaped devices that Jobs said are the thinnest iPods Apple has ever made. A $149 version comes with 8 gigabytes of memory; a 16-gigabyte version is $199.
The new models represent the incredible appetite for iPods — Jobs said Apple has sold 160 million iPods since their introduction. But Apple has to work hard to differentiate them from the iPhone, Apple's cell phone/iPod/Internet device that threatens to cannibalize some of the demand for iPods.
Jobs also showed off three new versions of the iPod Touch, the closest cousin to the iPhone. An 8-gigabyte version of the new model will sell for $229; a 16-gigabyte version will be $299 and a 32 GB model will be $399.
In the deal with NBC, the television network is coming back to iTunes, a year after pulling out in a dispute over the prices Apple charges for shows it sells on the online service. At that time, NBC Universal-controlled television programming made up an estimated 40 percent of the video downloads on iTunes.