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Rumors of Next Generation of Ipods
xyankee writes "Apple is on the verge of releasing a 60GB iPod that will not only hold a ton of music, but also sport photo-viewing capabilities! Think Secret is reporting that the new iPod will also have a 2-inch high-resolution LCD display, video-out, and enhancements to iPhoto for synchronizing photos. The best part is it'll be just 2mm thicker than regular iPods. Does this mean that iPhoto for Windows might not be far behind? Also, as a note to all the rumor pundits, Think Secret nailed the iMac G5 specs a month before its announcement, so I'm inclined to believe them with this bit as well."
A nice shiny Gmail account for me!!
I Photo for window is just stupid. Well, I guess the whole photo book creation thing is cool, but other than that Iphoto is not very impressive. But then again, I'm not impressed with itunes either. SO maybe what ever it is that people like about iTunes is the same sorta thing they like about iPhoto. I do however like grage band, but they really should have just kept going with their branding stratagey and just called it iRock. That would be cool. Almost cool enough to make apple cool. But not quite. I think for certian oddballs such as myself, a technology needs to have rough edges. It must be difficult so that we can feel pride in having accomplished a non trivial task. Like Garage band should behave as if everything is being recorded with equipment that a garage band might have. It starts raining as you're recording so water drips through the crack in the roof and hits the equipment. So it DEVELOPS problems WITH ConTroLinG The VOLUME AND FEEDBACK and feedback.
Wow that was a long winded rambling post. Well, thats what you get on friday.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
After the deal with Steve Balmer and his comments that Microsoft will dominate the convergence market for computer based entertainment, I'd love to see Apple come in and lay down another big seller.
"On the tail of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's accusation that 'iPod users are thieves' comes the push by the redmond giant to have a 'piracy tax' levied on all computer CPUs or motherboards sold. PC systems must already be sold with an operating system, but many users have worked around this restriction by building their own computers from separate components. "By buying computers piecemeal, often from overseas, computer users are bypassing the requirement to buy an operating system. "We have to ask ourselves 'what exactly are they running on these new PCs?', and the answer is invariably in piracy" says James Reeves, Microsoft spokesman. Analyst with the Enderle group, Rob Enderle claims "Piracy is costing the industry billions per year, and this has to be recovered somehow" in his support on the tax. Such a piracy tax could raise the price of each CPU legally sold within the US by over $100 per unit."