Apple is going to to launch 4 new products next month-according to ars technica- speculated to be NAND-flash-based evolutions of both the iPod video and iPod nano product lines.
Also rumored is an iPhone Nano. While I doubt this product ever becoming a reality, it seems everyone is pointing to The Steve’s own quote from the company wide business meeting June 28th, where he said that if there is going to be cannibalization of Apple’s products, it should be by Apple. This does make sense from a business perspective, no matter how uneasy it makes you. As companies struggle to match Apple’s intuitive user interface and features, Apple delivers another punch with more features, and perhaps no ATT exclusivity. The copycats are forced back to the drawing board, losing money, or launch a product that is inferior to Apple’s.
Here’s a pic that was requested (by Apple’s Legal Department) to be taken down off of 9 to 5 mac’s website:
A quick glance at the picture shows that it is a photoshop file, called nano-flower. Whether the entire picture was created in Photoshop is not apparent, so it is assumed that only the arrangement of the iPods was created in Photoshop. I personally do not think the new iPods will look anything like this. I think they will have click wheels, but then again, Apple has gone to far with multi-touch to take a step back.
