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What do you mean "got around to updating it?" The iPod touch gets updated every year - just like the iPhone! Apple most certainly does care about the iPod touch

• Zev 16y ago
  It just seems like it gets less love, because the iPod touch is updated 2-3 months after the iPhone is. Really, its just because the products were announced 2-3 months apart and thats how the release cycle works out.
  • mortenjorck 16y ago
    Part of the reason why the iPhone is usually a June release and the iPod Touch (and its music-focused siblings) are September releases is probably just necessity in terms of supply chain management. Launching the iPad in April was very likely a choice to keep release schedules in Apple's mobile unit optimally spaced; we'll likely see an April-June-September schedule for a number of years to come.
  • bruceboughton 16y ago
    Why would they launch all their great new tech for the iPod Touch instead of the iPhone? Especially if the iPod Touch is a lower-margin product. iPhone is clearly the more important product for them; this doesn't mean the iPod Touch isn't important though.
  • ugh 16y ago
    New iPods are traditionally announced in September, right before Christmas. That’s the way it has always been, nothing to do with love or hate. It would be stupid if Apple changed that, you don’t announce two high profile products at the same event. The iPod touch has also traditionally been ahead of the current iPhone, as far as I recall the iPod touch always had a slightly higher CPU speed. I don’t know how you could even get the idea that Apple neglects the iPod touch.
    • sabj 16y ago
      From talking to iOS engineers.