Are we going to get the nano software?

Convert · #1 September 23rd, 2005, 01:53 PM

We = other iPod users.

Of course, the stopwatch is pointless on a hard disk based system, but what about world clocks and the password set up? Will we get that too?

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 September 23rd, 2005, 02:21 PM

I doubt it, but it's always a possibility.

symphonix · #3 September 23rd, 2005, 07:38 PM

I saw a good pull-apart and hack of the iPod nano on Makezine, which suggested that it handles its firmware a little bit differently to other iPods. I'd expect that means they expanded the capabilities of the firmware a little bit for the nano. The other iPods may get some of the nano's features on the next firmware update (the security code would be a great one) but I wouldn't count on it.

**fryke** · #4 September 24th, 2005, 05:25 AM

Yeah, I guess the 'other' iPods will get the features when they're updated the nex time. So: 5G iPods will probably have the features. But older models: Nope.

Btw.: Why would a stop-watch be useless on a harddisk based system? I'm a poetry slammer and often need to know how long my poems are, and of course I need a stop watch to define that.

JetwingX · #5 September 25th, 2005, 01:32 AM

Yeah, I am a stage manager and have to time scenes and acts in plays all the time.

why does apple always screw the older iPod users? we want cool new stuff too :'( (or at-least give an iPod software SDK)

**fryke** · #6 September 25th, 2005, 01:58 AM

Because the iPods are consumer electronics, basically, and not a computing platform. You get what you pay for, they fix the bugs. But for new features, you'll have to sell your old and buy a new iPod.
You see: There's a time coming when the market is saturated with MP3 players, and Apple will only be able to sell more iPods when older users buy newer devices. If people come to think that you'll be able to upgrade your iPod with newer models' features, it'd gonna be hard to change that behaviour. Better make it clear that the iPod's what you get. You don't buy the "future" with it, you buy a present.

CreativeEye · #7 September 28th, 2005, 11:48 AM

surely it wouldnt be so tough for apple to update the 4g colour ipods with the new toys on the nano...

they must have upward updates planned! the nano as well as having the things mentioned above also shows what podcasts have been played or not - thats a pretty great thing to have.

i'm utterly surprised that there has been no ipod software update since the nano - there is no real reason not to do it.

the new nano features arent anything that the 4g's can't handle - and there should be an update.

Lt Major Burns · #8 September 28th, 2005, 12:10 PM

no, it *is* possible. there is no question in that. however, apple is a business, not a charity. if you want a stopwatch, a safe and some world clocks, it's available to you.

it's *possible* to use the new features of Adobe CS2, but they aren't going to give you them for free, you offer features to get people to buy it, not stay with the old one.

would you pay, say £40 for the new features on your ipod? because that would also be perfectly reasonable.