And the iPod Wait Begins - Again

With Apple consistently producing new breathtaking iPod models every so often, it has been an acquired habit to wait, with bated breath, what new delightful surprises the team would next come up with. Only a few weeks ago, everyone was on the tips of their toes speculating and guessing what the new line of iPods would be like.

Seems like the trend is this: Apple ends the wait of so many tech-enthusiasts just to begin another–the wait for the yet another bunch of iPods, making the fans scream for more, and more, and more! So, the question that lingers in every true-blue iPod fanatic’s head is: what comes next?

Far from discouraging fans from speculating about new iPods, the scarce information about iPod’s process of development only increases their interest and fuels their drive to guess and talk about the latest in iPod.

Rumors circulate that the team developing iPod had no idea about the iPhone until it was launched in January of this year. The decked-out iPod Nano and iPod Classic were probably the last projects done by the iPod team anteceding the iPhone–and may have reflected the future interface of up and coming iPods, at least until iPhone happened. The iPod Touch is the first iPod model preceding iPhone, complete with WiFi and multi-touch features to boot. But these two models are so similar that it seemed like iPod Touch was rushed.

While fans have learned not to make dead-end guesses, a lot knows enough to make educated speculations as to what iPod could come out with next. No one knows for sure when the latest iPods will crop out. But if one base his guess in Apple’s past practices, it could very well be in just a few months.

The latest in iPod Touch truly changed the course of up-and-coming iPod models. Instead of merely sprucing up what is now termed the “iPod Classic”, iPod Touch took the whole course of iPods to a different level, and gave a whole new meaning to the appellation “entertainment device”. What was previously just an upload-download, sort of Storage Device with speakers, this kind of thing is now very close to being a PDA.

Probably the best guess that fans could make about the next line of iPods is that the iPod team would somehow integrate both iPod Classic and iPod Touch into a kind of hybrid model. This is to make distinctions between iPhone and the iPod Touch clearer, since the latter is a tad bit too similar to the first that it appeared like a recycled version of the first.

Of course, since Apple generally likes to highlight how much thinner the new iPods are from the previous models, some sacrifices would have to be made since the new iPods have more features. Or better yet, some superbly-brilliant, astounding engineering would allow the latest in iPod to have all the new advance features without sacrificing the “Thin Aesthetic Beauty”.