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New iPod Design Pictures Leak
Brian Hoyt writes "Apple's new iPod design will be announced Monday. A cover picture depicting the new design from Newsweek has been discovered early. MacRumors broke the story - MacRumors and more specifically the cover itself - NewsWeek"
i'm sure this is going to flood someone badly, but here is a close up http://www.spymac.com/upload/gallery/f_0/user_117/ medium/upload_200466.jpg
Highlights:
Speculations:
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457434/site/newsweek
disappointing....
The sensible (and arguably the best) method of putting tracks on it is iTunes, even when music match for the PC was responsible for this, it too did a fine job. iTunes is available for Windows & Mac, linux programmers have also created similar music syncing software.
To address your format concerns, the iPod plays AIFF, WAV, MP3, Audiobooks and AAC. The first three of those are DRM free. Additionally the rights management on AAC is hardly limiting, the rights are static and unable to be changed by a 3rd party over time.
The price argument is negotiable, with 3Million sales, it couldn't be too limiting a price.
Thats where you pull that odd shiny device back out of the box and connect it between the ipod and the headphones, the remote.
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A lot of people will like the fact that it 100 dollars less. Some will like the 50% improvement in battery life. Others will dig the fact that you can have multiple on the go playlists. A couple will like the menu redesign. And a handful will like that you can speed up or slow down audio books, with no pitch distortion.
While I appreciate your concern and I've only used a mini at the store, there is no way you can press the click wheel accidentally.
You have to apply quite a bit of pressure. It's quite a stiff, tactile click.
Those are Kazuo Kawasaki frames - they are great, but mine cost about $600 with prescription lenses.
Surely running on shuffle can't use that much more power - all the iPod has to do is preselect the random songs, read them into cache and then spin down. It might need a bit more seeking, but that can't use that much power compared to spinning the disk.
It's not like the iPod doesn't know what song it's going to randomly play next.
If you were talking about the iTunes music store, you might have a point. As it is your post doesn't make any sense.
The iPod does NOT require DRM, I don't know where you got that idea. You can play your music in multiple formats, the most widely used being MP3. It also plays DRMed music from the music store, if you choose to use that.
If you want to get the music off it again, there are several apple scripts floating around to do it. The files are only hidden after all.
True 4GB CF cards with actual flash mamory and no moving parts costs >$1000.
Have you actually *tried* dropping them? iBooks look like they would break if you dropped them one inch, but mine never fussed a single time when I dropped it from my desk (about 5 feet) or my bed (about 3 feet).
It's a pyramid scheme. They know that 99% of people will get a few friends to sign up, but not enough to earn an iPod. There are also lots of "mysterious reasons" why people get their order cancelled.
Engadget did a little investigative reporting about freeipod.com.
For more information, click here.
It costs $29-$49 to replace
More here and here.
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You can get a new 2000mAh battery for that model if you want to drop $90 on it.
Various iPod batteries
I may pick one up myself for this 2G i just got from my sister (first ipod owner too, im such a nerd but I can't afford to buy one myself).
Yeah you know those MP3 Decoder Chips you can't seem to find? Try looking in your DVD player that supports MP3 on the fly.
DVD Player Market is separate from the portable MP3 player market and millions upon millions of MP3 Decoder chips are in standard DVD home entertainment units.
HVAC Systems for commerical and home use aren't in the same market as automobile A/C units but you get the point.
You read wrong. Apple's market share on portable players is based on units sold. Review the keynote at the WWDC for confirmation.
seSales, Point of Sale software for OS X.