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Welcome to episode 131 of the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm your host Victor, and joining me is the inest moment Neil Hughes.

Victor, you have quite a booming voice today.

Do I need to do that again without quite as much of the best?

No, no, no, no, it just sounded good.

I liked it. All right.

So, here on iPod Insider, we talk about all things iPod, right? We talk about all things

iPod nano, we talk about iPod shuffle, we talk about iPod Classic, we talk about iPod Touch, we talk about iPod Classic. We talk about iPod touch. We talk about all things iPod, right?

Well, what's funny is I've been saying for a few months now here on the podcast that I expected an iPod refresh or update this

summer. You got one. Right, I did. I was right. And what's funny is, you know,

when you work in this business and you do it if you have you know when you when you work in this business and you do it if you have you know some

sort of common sense and how it works Apple is not that surprising they're actually

very predictable very routine very steady in how they do things.

And the iPod touch has been on a two-year upgrade cycle for a while,

and it hadn't been touched in two years, no pun intended there.

And yeah, so I just had said a few times here on the podcast, you know, I think that we'll probably

get some form of an iPod touch update this year.

It's not a very big one, but if you are in the market for an iPod touch, you now

get double the storage for less money. So now it starts with 32 gigs for 199 or 128 gigs for 299 but really the real story here is that the

iPod nano and the iPod shuffle are dead.

Okay so I understood when they said that they weren't going to make any more iPod Classic,

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