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New gold, dark blue and hot pink colors come to Apple's iPod nano, shuffle & touch lineups

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All three devices in Apple's existing iPod lineup —  the iPod nano, shuffle and touch —  gained three new color options on Wednesday. And while the iPod touch's internal components were overhauled, the iPod nano and shuffle specifications remain unchanged.

All three iPod products can now be purchased in gold, dark blue, and hot pink. These replace previous shades of yellow, a lighter blue, and a softer pink.

The new iPod lineup has the same entry price of $49 for a 2-gigabyte iPod shuffle. And the iPod nano has also maintained a 16-gigabyte capacity at a price of $149.

The iPod touch starts at $199 for 16 gigabytes. A 32-gigabyte version is available for $249, a 64-gigabyte capacity runs $299, and a high-end 128-gigabyte version is available $399.

iPods have become less of a focus for Apple as sales have declined. The company no longer reports unit sales for iPods, lumping them in with services and the upcoming Apple Watch.

But in the last period when iPod sales were reported, which was the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, sales were just 2.6 million units, earning the company a mere $410 million in revenue.

23 Comments

lord amhran 13 Years · 900 comments

I'm most likely in the minority here but I would love them to bring the Classic back. I'm that type of guy who needs (obsessively perhaps) to carry all my music & media with me at all times. Failing that I'd have loved to see a storage capacity bump for the Touch but all in all a pretty decent refresh imo.

lightknight 15 Years · 2311 comments

Not sure why. Who uses that? What for? Maybe I'm missing something?

gregquinn 14 Years · 77 comments

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earning the company a mere $410 million in revenue
" - wish my company could earn a mere $410 million in revenue - I guess everything is relative :)

thewhitefalcon 11 Years · 4444 comments

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 earning the company a mere $410 million in revenue.

Revenue greater than Apple earned for many years. Revenue greater than a lot of companies. But this kind of thinking at Apple is why it's taken so long to update the Touch, and why the Shuffle and Nano got these cheap updates.

 

The Nano is still overpriced, it needs to be cut to $129 or so.