Just as we thought that the iPod is a dead end product…
September 1 , may prove to be be herald as the 1984 for Apple ! …
Could it be that Apple is up to turning this product mix into a 50% – 70% growth ? as it once was ? … It is hard to believe …. But it may not be impossible ! …
1) The next iPad may not be the 7″ rumoured product… For it might be just a 3.5″ iPad … Just a refreshed iPod Touch but equipped with 3 g … Just as the 9.7″ iPad but with at least one camera … and to me if there is just ONE camera I hope that it would be front-end to give leverage the FaceTime feature … It may be offered for just $399 … Not necessarily with Retina display…
While keeping the Wi-Fi iPod tOuch version with a camera for maybe $249 Not necessarily with Retina display
That newest iPod Touch could have an INCREDIBLE success ! … Because a potential iPod 3g could be that iPhone nano everyone was dreaming of… and it could come in CDMA flavour as well… Paving the way for an iPhone CDMA aimed at Sprint and T mobile.
I suspect that there is a HUGE market for an iPod Touch 3g / CDMA … MOST owners of a cell phones would want one … Specifically those OCCASIONAL users who cannot afford the $100 + / month subscription, and who would go for a $30-$35 / month and would use VOIP to place phone calls wherever Wi-Fi is not available … Not sure though if $399 is too high maybe a $200 subsidy could help bringing it down to $199 with a one-year contract (as opposed to 2 years with a $400 subsidy)
2) The iPod Nano could be offered in two versions :
- That 1.7″ screen sized , without the wheel , while keeping the camera
- Same as above but offered as “wrist watch” See the article about that in the 9 to 5 mac.com
3) The iPod Shuffle could be replaced by a pair of Glasses ! …
- S the non iPod Touches could become “wearable” devices
Does that sounds Science-Fiction ? …
What if it becomes real ? … What would be the impact of such innovations ?
I bet my shirt that AAPL could sell over 100M / year of such devices now that it has an international reach that is over 100% the current unit sales… So add to that the increased ASP’s associated with the 3g version of an iPod Touch …
But all that being said, and assuming that such a science fiction scenario unfolds : Would the market recognize the impact of such new innovations ?
Let’s see what will be announced on Sep 1 … It may be more than just a guitar !
Zee 11:00 pm on August 28, 2010 526 days ago Reply
“Paving the way for an iPhone CDMA aimed at Sprint and T Mobile.”
—T Mobile is GSM.
If your curious what might evolve, do a Google search for : hacking the iPod Touch in China … there’s something there for less than 60 bucks that turns a jail broken iPod Touch into a phone … it’s called the Apple Peel and it also adds a Sim Card Slot and Extra Battery, looks sort of like an Otter Box … I’m not an expert on it. I just did a cursory look because I remembered some of their clever solutions. May take advantage of things like Google offering Free Voip till the end of the year…
Possibly the iPod Touch may also air out features we might expect to see on future iPads because SJ said the next horizon was to make the iPad capable of producing content.
Cheers.