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November 02, 2006

Touch-screen iPod leak by Apple?
Filed under: Apple

In an iPod developer feature guide on the Apple website, they apparently have leaked a confirmation of the upcoming touch screen iPod. On page 10 of the PDF (available at http://developer.apple.com/hardwaredrivers/ipod/iPodNotesFeatureGuideCB.pdf) the following text appears:

Note: Linking to photos and videos is supported only for 5th generation iPods running iPod Software version 1.2 or later. All other Notes feature capabilities described in this document are supported for iPod models with display screens, beginning with the touch-screen models.

In the PDF that section shows a bar off to the left, like it is still text undergoing editing and most likely was not meant to be released to the public:

It will be interesting to see how quickly that PDF gets changed by Apple now that it has been discovered.

Posted by Kevin Railsback on November 2, 2006 08:50 AM

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Almost certainly just a typographical error. It's now been corrected to read "touchwheel" which makes a lot more sense in the context of the document.

Posted by: Dave at November 2, 2006 03:43 PM

I suspected as much, but it could also have been that that section was not supposed to be published yet (thus the editing mark to the left that was left in).

Thanks for the feedback.

Kevin

Posted by: Kevin Railsback at November 2, 2006 04:11 PM

Personally, I think it was just an error, even though it did have the editing mark next to the paragraph. I definitely hope that there is not going to be a touch-screen ipod soon, because I just got an iPod video for Christmas, but have not opened it yet. If that touch-screen iPod is coming out in early 2007, I may return my iPod video. If I find out that the touch-screen iPod is not coming out till mid to late 2007, then I will just keep my iPod video. Please, if anyone knows anything, just post a comment on this site within the next couple of days, because I need to return my iPod on December 29th.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 26, 2006 06:55 PM

Personally, I think it was just an error, even though it did have the editing mark next to the paragraph. I definitely hope that there is not going to be a touch-screen ipod soon, because I just got an iPod video for Christmas, but have not opened it yet. If that touch-screen iPod is coming out in early 2007, I may return my iPod video. If I find out that the touch-screen iPod is not coming out till mid to late 2007, then I will just keep my iPod video. Please, if anyone knows anything, just post a comment on this site within the next couple of days, because I need to return my iPod on December 29th.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 26, 2006 06:56 PM

I had a speaker come to my school who said if you were to buy an iPod, wait until August. They're are coming out with a touchscreen. But I don't know if it's true.

Posted by: Anonymous at March 16, 2007 05:49 PM

A touchscreen might be the thing that gets me to buy an iPod. I've been resisting all these years. :)

Posted by: Sanford Rosser at April 27, 2007 02:25 PM

I find it interesting that someone commented about the new touch-screen iPod being released in August, because recently a report was released about a touch screen supplier, Wintek, shipping touch screens to Apple for an August product release.

Posted by: Keith Rogers at July 12, 2007 02:50 AM




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