iTunes 8.0, Snow Leopard gets Bluray, September iPod Updates – [Briefly]

Posted on August 23rd, 2008. Written by Arron.

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, has claimed to have new information of upcoming iPod refreshes and iTunes updates. In the video above, Rose outlines what rumors have been going around the blog-o-sphere recently, and confirms that some of them have substance behind them, also claiming he has ‘seen’ pictures of the next iPod nano. Among the claims …

- Revamp of entire iPod line.
- Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see above)
- iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
- iTunes 8.0 (“it’s a big update w/new features”).
- Blu-Ray support coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6

Rose claims that all of the above is coming sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. Interestingly, Rose also notes that the revamped iPod touch will be the first and only device to ship with the 2.1 software. Apple will then release the 2.1 update for iPhone, “shortly” after. The 2.1 software is rumored to include ‘Push’ capabilities which will integrate with Apple’s remote cloud to form the new ‘Push Notification Service’. This service is said by Apple, to keep a persistent IP connection to applications that need it, (for example, Mobile Chat 3), to provide status updates when an application is closed.

After saying this, Apple recently seeded a beta of 2.1 to it’s developers, and surprisingly had completely removed all ‘Push’ capabilities from the version of iPhone OS.

Via: Mac Rumors / Kevin Rose

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