Picture sent around by Apple to promote Wednesday's event.
A source close to Apple Insider recently dropped some info which suggests that the launch of the iPods with cameras could be delayed. This means that this Wednesday, during Apple’s annual end of the year event during which Apple announces updates to the iPod line of products, we might not find the new iPods for sale on the Apple website right away. In case you don’t know, talk is that Apple is suspected to be adding 3.2 megapixel cameras to the iPod Touch and the iPod Nano during the next iPod line refresh, which should occur this week. These suspicions are corroborated by the existence of cases for the iPods with camera holes.
My instinct is that even if the iPods with cameras are having some issues, Apple will just announce that they’ll be available at a later date rather than scrapping the whole thing. After all, Apple only gets a few events a year in which it really gets to build up both consumer and mainstream press awareness about its products.
The idea of the iPod camera is to breathe a little more life into the iPod line, which at this point is going more and more over to the not-quite-an-iPhone side of things. But with that in mind, one has to wonder why Apple would put a camera in the iPod Touch. After all, that gives people a way to get what is more or less an iPhone without buying an iPhone, cannibalizing that market. What this says is that Apple believes that there is still a considerable chunk of the market which is not ready to go the smartphone route.
