I’m not much for speculating on new products by Apple or any other company but just wanted to leave a comment about the new iPod touch.

There will be a new iPod touch. It only makes sense from Apple’s perspective. Now that they are in the chip design game they must have a ton of A4 chips that didn’t make the cut for iphone or ipad. This is typically how the chip game works. You design a chip, manufacturer it and you end up with defects. The perfectly fabricated chips get used for your top of the line products and then the imperfect chips get used for the lesser products. The defective chips could be slower chips, use less RAM, have less cache, etc. Intel does it, AMD does it and so does Nvidia. It makes sense.

So there’s no doubt that ever since ipad and iphone were announced with A4 processor, Apple’s probably been collecting a ton of imperfect A4 processors. You wouldn’t want to just throw away these chips so why not use them in the iPod touch? Down clock it to maybe 600MHz, turn off a few features and poof! You’ve got a new product. So the new iPod touch won’t come out until Apple knows they have enough chips to meet demand. Once they’ve stocked up enough then we’ll see the iPod touch become available. I’m not sure if the iPod touch will get the Retina Display. I don’t think they can get the prices low enough to validate it. iPhone still has shortages, I think that product line needs all the LCDs it can get.

I still like the iPod touch. I don’t think I’ll ever own the iPhone when I can get almost all the features I want from the iPod touch. I hate being tied down with a contract and it also gives me a chance to try out other cell phones.
I use my iPod touch when I’m commuting on the subway and when I’m sitting down for a longer periods of time I’ll use my iPad.