Posts Tagged ‘iPod’
Apple, iPod, iTunes, Media, Palm, Palm Pre
In General on Tuesday, 2 June 2009 at 19:02
Apple, Hardware, iPod, iPod touch, Microsoft, Zune, Zune HD
In General on Monday, 1 June 2009 at 16:22
You’ve got to give Microsoft credit. Having failed at making the Zune an “iPod killer,” they’ve given up and are trying to make it an “iPod touch killer.” Why go after big brother when little brother has kicked your butt for two years? Beats me; you’d have to ask Microsoft. All I can do is look at the Zune HD and see what it’s about…
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Apple, Hardware, iMac, iPod
In General on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 at 14:07
OK, with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the likes of Thurrott, Enderle, and analyst Shaw Wu about yesterday’s Apple announcements (I think these guys are wrong), I thought I’d lighten things up a bit with something that struck me about the new nano design.
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Apple, Hardware, iPod, iPod touch, Microsoft
In General on Tuesday, 9 September 2008 at 22:08
As usual, Paul Thurrott gets most of this wrong…
Incremental. It’s official, folks. The iPod market is now mature. There wasn’t a single major announcement at today’s event
Which is what most who knew what was going on suspected. And yet there was actually great stuff there if you cared to pay attention.
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Apple, Hardware, iPod, iPod touch, iTunes
In General on Tuesday, 9 September 2008 at 12:37
I haven’t had time to parse everything, and I’ll play with iTunes and give my thoughts on it later, but here are a few things that struck me — in no particular order — from today’s announcement:
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Apple, iPhone, iPod, Software
In General on Sunday, 27 July 2008 at 22:02
Apple’s iPhone Remote application is great. It’s so convenient to control an entire iTunes library — and any AirTunes speakers — from any iPhone or iPod touch.
But instead of telling you how great it is I’d rather take the time to request that Apple add the Remote app’s interface improvements to the iPhone’s native iPod interface. In my opinion, the native iPod interface on the iPhone/iPod touch no longer makes it the best iPod ever. The Remote app’s interface supersedes it. Let’s take a look…
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Apple, Hardware, iPhone, iPod
In General on Tuesday, 15 July 2008 at 22:03
I wrote earlier about why I’m not upgrading to and iPhone 3G at this time, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t given some thought as to what will become of my beloved original 8GB model.
After working with the 2.0 software and App Store for the last few days on my iPhone and my daughter’s iPod touch, I think I know…
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Apple, Hardware, iPhone, iPod
In General on Monday, 9 June 2008 at 11:14
[UPDATE 6/10/08] I originally wrote this post based on preliminary information about the iPhone’s new price. Subsequent data made it clear the $199 price is based on a subsidy from AT&T. You can’t buy the iPhone online, but rather must buy it at an AT&T or Apple store and activate it in-house (there is no more at-home activation) in order to get the $199 price.
Therefore, the “true” price of an iPhone is still $499, and the value of the old generation and iPod touch are not impacted as badly as I had first thought.
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Apple, DRM, iPod, iTunes, Media, Music
In General on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 at 10:29
According to the Financial Times this is in the works.
Personally, I’ve never been a fan of this model, though assuming it’s optional it finally has a shot to succeed now that the largest and most popular online music store (and second-largest music store) would be offering it for those who want it.
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Hardware, ice cream, iPod, Music, popsicle, shuffle
In Uncategorized on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 at 14:47
So a Brazilian ice cream maker has started a promotion where some of its Popsicles will instead contain a free iPod Shuffle.
Cool idea (pun intended). However, in looking at the pictures of what a winner looks like, I predict the next time we hear about this will be because stores have a lot of poked, prodded, and broken Popsicle packages as users try to determine if they’ve got a winner.
Apple, Hardware, iPod, Microsoft, Zune
In Uncategorized on Wednesday, 14 November 2007 at 21:47
Do the new 2G Zunes have what it takes to compete with the latest iPods?
Well, in an article titled “7 Ways Zune Beats iPod?” Team Zune Luv certainly thinks so. In fact, the “team” claims the Zune is
“…better for the consumer in a number of way [sic] that, at this point, the iPod simply can’t touch”
I disagree, so let’s take a look at their list and see what we can make of it:
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iPod, iTunes, Media, Music, Spiral Frog, Universal
In Uncategorized on Tuesday, 18 September 2007 at 14:38
So Universal has teamed up with SpiralFrog on a subscription service with a twist; the service is now out of beta and officially launched. SpiralFrog is unique among subscription services in that it’s subscription-less (at least for now). No monthly fee is required, the site is intended to be funded solely by advertising and your recurring visits:
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Apple, iPod, iTunes
In Uncategorized on Thursday, 6 September 2007 at 12:56
I sifted through the rumors yesterday and come up looking pretty good today now that we know what was actually announced. I’ll talk about all the iPod models here, but what I really like is how they handled their high-end models. We’ll get to that in a minute.
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Apple, Hardware, iPod, iTunes
In Uncategorized on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 at 12:48
All this speculation and whatnot about the new iPods tomorrow. I’m on record about the 6G iPod here and here. As for the nano, the rumors I’ve seen (wider body, larger screen, video-capable, more capacity) don’t sound too crazy so they wouldn’t surprise me. I also think the Shuffle will gain an extra GB of memory for the same price.
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Apple, iPhone, iPod
In General on Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at 17:55
Apple, earnings, iPhone, iPod, Mac, revenue
In General on Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at 13:22
Well, Apple’s press release for 3Q results is out, and it mentions no specific iPhone sales numbers:
““We’re thrilled to report the highest June quarter revenue and profit in Apple’s history, along with the highest quarterly Mac sales ever,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone is off to a great start—we hope to sell our one-millionth iPhone by the end of its first full quarter of sales—and our new product pipeline is very strong.””
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Apple, iPhone, iPod, Rumor
In General on Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at 6:50
Many sites have published links to a video with the alleged new interface for the 6G video iPod (here is MacDailyNews’). The video doesn’t necessarily remind one of the iPhone, though clearly elements have been borrowed.
I’ve gone on record stating the 6G iPod would have the iPod interface from the iPhone, or something very close (for example, the iPod might add a virtual scroll wheel for games).
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Apple, iPhone, iPod
In General on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 at 10:14
There are several stories surfacing (for example, here and here) about how to kill the AT&T service and just use the WiFi functionality of the iPhone along with the coolest iPod Apple’s ever made.
This is an interesting intellectual exercise, and its kind of fun to see what can be done and what you can get away with. Deep down perhaps all of us like to see how we can “cheat the system,” as it were.
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Apple, iPod, iTunes, Music
In Uncategorized on Thursday, 7 June 2007 at 11:29
In the guise of documenting the outage of LALA on its first day, Information Weak (the publication’s more realistic name) writer Alexander Wolfe takes shots at Apple’s iPod in this article, while also begging, groveling, and pleading with somebody, anybody, to join him in his love affair with the failed music rental model.
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Apple, iPhone, iPod
In General on Saturday, 2 June 2007 at 19:19