Reasons not to buy an iPod now

I'm planning to get a new iPod soon as my 1st gen iPod is getting long in the tooth. It reboots sometimes for no reason. I've replaced the original battery with a higher capacity aftermarket one. Plus, 10gb just isn't enough. I already have to pick and choose what goes on it, I'd like to just carry everything. But I'm waiting...

We can't speak to what specific technology Cupertino's got brewing behind the scenes (we know it's OS X-based, and hear it'll use more flash), but whatever it is, we'd wager it'll be released in September or October. And not just because Apple's has taken to launching at least some new iPods every year since 2003, or admitted that it considers its iPhone business its "third", separate from its dedicated music player business (and thus wouldn't consider the iPhone its big iPod launch for 2007), or has just generally been mum about the iPod all year. It's more to do with the fact that since 2004 the company has statistically fallen into the groove of using those two months to launch new flagship iPods (probably thanks to their close-but-not-too-close proximity to the holidays).