Aren't they getting ready to discontinue this model?

A haven't seen anywhere that Apple has confirmed the plans to discontinue the 8GB Touch and iPhone, but the rumors are rampant. The rumors also have it that a $100 price cut is coming on the larger models.

Personally, I've been interested in the 80GB classic, but like the slim design and WiFi (email) on the Touch. The 8GB has cowed me on the Touch for the $260ish price tag though. If the 16GB comes down into the $250 range, I'd probably go for that.

I am waiting for MS to release a better mp3 player with a touch screen. I wonder how long that will take.

#3 Let's recap the major 3D OS line.
OSX launch date: March 2001.
Vista release date: February 2007.

I think that means we can expect a 3D Zune with touch interface sometime in the early part of 2013. Of course, it will have all the latest technology, but it will be so slow that it's virtually unusable. That, and I'm sure it will crash more often as well.

What do you know, Apple emulated the Microsoft model of software development OSX was based on technology from NeXT, which Apple bought in 1997, which NeXT developed in the 80s and 90s. Apple server based on the NeXT technology was released in 1999, the desktop version in 2001. So what? All of these graphical OSes were based on the graphical user interface concept developed at Xerox PARC.

#4, this has nothing to do with mp3 players, just like your comment. Except this: For the original ipod Apple bought the microkernel from one company and the user interface from another company. BFD.

#5 your comment made my head hurt, but I also think it contained the secret to time traval

Ipod was cool...like...last 2 Christmas's ago
Comparing OSX release vs Vista release is irrelevant
How about going into Best Buy or Walmart or Costco or...
...and seeing the amount of Mac software there is to Windows

On that note...is MYST still on MAC's greatest hits list?

#7 Microsoft was cool... like... NEVER! Vista was cool... like... NEVER! Haha, try answering that, if you can!

pretty good investment consider that 8GB nano costs $199 retail

Microsoft sux. Apple sux harder. Go suck on that

I'm amazed that it takes two years for Apple's capacity to drop from 60GB ipods to an 8GB ipod for the same price. Did I miss something here? Isn't the storage capacity supposed to go up. The movies are also 1.5GB when you download from iTunes, which means that I can fit the same number of movies onto a DVD in DivX form and play it on a $100 portable DVD player with a 10" screen.

If Apple at least included an SD slot, this might be worth while. Neat little device with the internet abilities, but my 5 year old Pocket PC does that, and MS Office, and games, and it functions as a universal remote control, and it cost the same as this does, oh and a larger touch screen, easier interface to write with, and finally the SD slot that this device should have. My how technology has grown. In 5 years the only true improvement is that it is thinner.