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Apple Replaces B/W White iPods with Color Screens
FlameboyC11 writes "A quick check at the Apple online store shows no sign of the black-and-white screened 'white' iPods. The iPod Photo has replaced them in the 20GB and 60GB categories, but is keeping the same price scale ($300 for low end and $400 for high end). This seems like such a quick switch to color, perhaps a video player is coming faster than we think?"
Why is this news? Oh yeah, it's not.
Just moving to color screens for all the 'big' iPods is not new.
I have an iPod. I love it. But Apple has been really complacent with it's development for the last while. Then again, it's poor PPC faithful are in even worse shape (I have no problem with the x86 switchover, but in the mean time almost their entire PPC line is desperate for updates).
Complacentcy will kill ya. Look out Apple. For the 'kings of innovation' there isn't much to see for the last while.
What is it with OGG Vorbis anyway?
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What is it with OGG Vorbis anyway? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig with my click-wheel iPod for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to play a 17 Meg OGG Vorbis file (have to hear my "alternative" music with an "alternative" format, you know). 20 minutes. At home, on my Rio Karma running WMA, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this iPod, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
Wow. My first comment to be moderated as a troll.
Of course, it wasn't meant that way. It was a way of opening up discussion as to why a few people seem to insist upon Ogg Vorbis support when the entire industry seems to be deeming it irrelevant, or at best an afterthought.
A *real* troll comment would have been to question whether Ogg Vorbis is any good, or to use some sort of hackneyed crap about standards.
I can only assume that the people who moderated me are hair-trigger personalities with no interest in either explaining their positions or in allowing any questioning.
So to please them (because I'm a lovely person), I'll get on board the Ogg Vorbis train. Sieg heil Ogg Vorbis! Ve shall not qvestion its superiority or allow anyvone to do so! Qvestioners vill be tied up viz piano vire unt slapped vis a vet fish!