The birth of the iPhone is touted as one factor that makes iPod sales sluggish. iPhone itself is satisfying consumer demand for MP3 player and a smartphone.
Rumors about the cessation of production of two of Apple's music player is pushed back to the surface. Reportedly, the product will be stopped production it is the iPod shuffle and iPod classic.
Apple's announcement of the company that this year they will do a 'product transition' is the cause of this rumor warmed up.
Typically, Apple has always announced at an event iPod ranks in the fall in the United States. But this time Apple seems to use it to announce the new iPhone.
iPod Classic now has 10 years of competing in the device market and its own music player has not changed much. Quoted from the Telegraph, Tuesday (29/09/2011), iPod Classic is a product of the weakest in the ranks of iPod sales.
IPod shuffle is being almost the same as the nano, just minus the screen. The absence of the screen on the iPod shuffle has become an issue since his first appearance in 2005.
