iPod Touch and iPhone upgrades
For some reason Apple announced that the capacities of the iPhone and the iPod Touch would be doubled earlier this week. The reason I say for some reason, is it’s hard to understand why they didn’t just announce this at Macworld. You know, that huge event that is all about Apple products? The one that was just a couple weeks ago? Yeah, it’s odd. Maybe the new capacities weren’t ready (if so, why didn’t they just do what they did with the Apple TV revisions and say it’s coming in 2 weeks?) or maybe Steve Jobs didn’t want to take attention away from the Macbook Air. Regardless, if you find yourself interested in the iPhone or iPod Touch but you couldn’t see yourself committing to the rather miniscule capacities they came with originally (4 and 8 gigabytes for the iPhone, 8 and 16 gigabytes for the iPod Touch), you can now get hardware with at least twice the space.
The iPhone now has a 16 gigabyte version which doubles the size of their largest version up to this point, and the iPod Touch is getting a 32 gigabyte version which also doubles the highest capacity you could get for that device up until this announcement. If you’ve read my blog for any considerable amount of time (and God bless you for doing so =P) you’ll know that the initial size of the hard drive on the iPod Touch was the main deterrent for me getting one to serve as my next MP3 player. So now with a 32 gigabyte version, which is over twice the size of any MP3 player I’ve ever had, I should be happy! At least that’s what you’re thinking. I would be too, but there’s one caveat to this announcement – you’ll have to pay for the new capacity.
Both the 16 gigabyte iPhone and 32 gigabyte iPod Touch are $100 more than the next closest capacity in the line. The 16 gig iPhone is $499 (whereas the 8 gig version is $399) and the 32 gig iPod Touch is $499 (whereas the 16 gigabyte version is $399). So for an MP3 player to get enough room to store the bulk of my music plus some video files I’d have to drop $500. That’s $100 more than a Playstation 3, which plays video games and Blu-Ray movies, not to mention has wifi and bluetooth functionality, and comes with a FORTY gigabyte hard drive. I don’t know, maybe I’m just being cheap but it doesn’t seem worth it.
Honestly after this announcement my first thought was that it would be really nice to pick up an 8 gigabyte iPhone for $399 since my area has coverage. The only problem is that I just recently got a new phone and started a new contract under Verizon, so that probably won’t be happening anytime soon. Of course by anytime soon I mean the next two years. What would have been great would be if Apple pulled one of their classic moves where they roll out new products at the same cost as the old products. I expected this to happen just because they’ve done it multiple times in the past, but no such luck this time around.
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