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Apple To Make "Music To Your Ears" Announcement
supa_k writes "According to an offical Apple invitation sent to the good folks at
MacCentral, on April 28th
Apple will make 'announcements that will be music to your ears.' It remains to be seen if this involves a purchase of Universal - something Apple offically denied just a few days ago but it will undoubtedly be the announcement of their online music subscription service and the other announcement will surely be new iPods."
I always try to weasel info out of the peopel at my local Apple store.
The other day I went in there looking at the powerbooks nad told the guy that "I couldn't justify the 17"pbook and the 12" wasn't much better than my ibook. However, I'd go for an updated version of the 15"
He tells me "dude, if I knew anything I'd tell you now, but I haven't heard anything"
Accodring to him the store employees at the Apple stores literally don't see any new products until the day they come in, and it's just sitting there on the shelf. True?
Actually, Dell just re-signed their retail contract with Apple, so unless they're gonna start selling iMacs, I imagine Dell will be selling iPods again soon.
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Yup. We know squat until the day of whatever the announcement is. We all got our news in January DURING the keynote. Not a moment before the rest of the world. It stinks, but at least we don't have to lie to folks.
The new iPods should be available in 10, 15 and 30 gig versions according to ThinkSecret. They also say it should also include a docking station.
For all those people who do not believe the rumor sites ThinkSecret has proven time and time again to be nearly always correct. It is not MacOSRumors. :-)
actually, I found that the new 1.2.6 version of the ipod firmware solves the problem quite nicely; once again I can get 10 hrs of music off one charge.
http://www.iweenie.com/ipod.shtml (iweenie)
has the latest firmware, as well as the older versions and all the tools you need.
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Actually, in a way, you're right. Dell stopped selling iPods because of Apple's iron grip of a contract. However, according to MacCentral, Dell, Fry's, and Micro Center all re-signed their retail contract with Apple.
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If all you want is a 5GB+ MP3 player under $200, then you can get a creative nomad jukebox for $159.
About the size of a CD player and less battery life/ flexibility of use, but, there's what you described.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
From the highest level VP, to the cleaning staff at Cupertino, Big Steve has made
it clear that if anyone leaks any information about future plans or products,
it's immediate termination. It's Apple's First Commandment and few will risk
the wrath of Jobs.
Part of that is the reality of working in a publicly traded company. Major business events like a product release wouldn't be told to general personnel until the public has been informed also. It's a basic protection against insider trading, as well as a preventitive measure against information leaks...
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Cocoa does not equate to better-
Cocoa is an application framework. It will not make things faster or better or whatever, If a Carbon app is optimized it will run as fast or faster then Cocoa apps (e.g. The Finder).
Carbon and Cocoa each have their purposes, which is why they are used in OS X.
It's worth mentioning that unless the MP3/whatever decoder is in the headphones, bluetooth won't work. It doesn't have the bandwidth for uncompressed CD-quality audio (44.1khz/16 bit/2 channel). IIRC, it tops out at a theoretical limit of 700kbps.
-Isaac
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For Entertainment Purposes Only.
The only reason I hold any hope of Apple adding Ogg support to iPod is that it's free (as in both). There's 32MB of EPROM (or Flash?) on every iPod specifically intended for firmware updates. Plenty of room for AAC, Ogg, and the next dozen codecs to come.
Yeah, I've heard that when you guys get unanounced equipment, it comes in unmarked boxes that say "Don't open this until xx/xx/xx, on pain of losing your job", or something like that. So you can open it during MacWorld, and go, "Gee, it's what Steve just announced!".
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I'm not sure of the exact language, but the idea is that Apple was not allowed in the music industry. There was argument over the language meaning that Apple could not make music or could they not make music creation technology. Apple records sued for the latter, while Apple said the agreement was for the former, and Apple lost.
That said... as I have stated in the past... THE SUIT HAS BEEN SETTLED. Now that its settled Apple can do whatever they want really. They have iPod, they have iTunes, I'm sure IIgs technology is not really important any more.
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