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Apple Announces Wireless Touchscreen iPod, WiFi Music Store, Deal With Starbucks

9/5/07, 1:24 pm EST


The big announcements from Steve Jobs’ iPod/iTunes press conference in San Francisco have arrived: As expected, Apple is selling a touchscreen iPod which works like the iPhone, minus the phone part. The cool extra feature: it’s also an internet device with WiFi capability, and you can now buy songs over the air via what Apple calls the “iTunes WiFi Music Store.” Apple also now has a deal with Starbucks which allows you to buy tracks wirelessly from the coffee chain’s Hear Music label at Starbucks stores.
Also new: you can now purchase ringtones for the iPhone. You’ll be able to choose ringtone chunks of up to 30 seconds from songs you’ve already purchased from iTunes, and it will cost ninety-nine cents more on top of the cost of the song. Plus, there’s a new iPod Nano with video-playing capabilities.

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Steve | 9/5/2007, 2:25 pm EST

*yawn* Wake me up when they get rid of the crappy idiot-proof firmware and increase the hard drive size. No reason to top out at 80 gigs when there’s bigger drives out there.

How about a WiFi connected iPod that could link up to BitTorrent sites. Now THAT would be worth paying for…haha.

andy | 9/5/2007, 3:48 pm EST

uhh yeah steve, the new ipods come in 160gb versions

frank pembleton | 9/5/2007, 4:26 pm EST

wow! 16 GB that’s amazing…apparently the new ipods transport you back to 1997 when that was a lot of storage. Way to go Apple

frank pembleton | 9/5/2007, 4:53 pm EST

almost as amazing as posting same message twice…sorry

Spencer | 9/5/2007, 7:48 pm EST

Shit. Still no word on when the Beatles are coming.

Jakobi | 9/6/2007, 5:35 am EST

It’s disappointing that the iPod touch has a smaller capacity. But I guess it has to be that way for now.

farouk | 9/6/2007, 10:39 am EST

This incredible expensive and useless toy is shaping the future. We will bite Bender’s shiny metal ass for sure…

Sweta-Zinok | 12/26/2007, 4:03 pm EST

Hi. Sorry for my english. Happy New Year!!!!!
Good Luck!

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