With less than 24 hours to go until the Apple Music event, there’s only one thing that I will watch out for on the live-blogs from the event tomorrow:
Will the new iPod Touch have a built-in microphone?
Here’s why the microphone is so crucial: Without a built-in microphone, there will be no video. Also, there will be severe limitations in making/receiving calls over VOIP or through Google Voice (if it gets re-written to be browser-based, as Google stated). But even more importantly, no microphone will basically set the course for keeping the iPod Touch de-featured in order to protect the iPhone brand.
A built-in microphone, on the other hand, not only would enable video, but set the stage to seriously use the iPod Touch as a VOIP phone, in conjunction with a device like the Verizon MiFi. And Apple would show the world that is is not sweating the fact that the iPod Touch could make it very easy for iPhone users like me to switch from the iPhone/AT&T combo to iTouch/Verizon or iTouch/Sprint.
We will know soon. I cannot wait…
p.s.
If Steve Jobs is tomorrow’s presenter, we will hear about the new tablet computer, a.k.a. the iPad. If it’s Phil Schiller, there might be one more thing, but not an iPad.
OK. Enough speculation…
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