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iPod nano, iTunes 5, iTunes Phone
adpowers writes "Lots of updates today on the Apple front. First we have the iPod nano, which is an iPod photo-esque replacement for the iPod mini. It comes in 2 and 4 gig varieties and is half the thickness of the mini it replaces. A new iTunes is release as well, which looks similar to Mail.app. I'm not sure I like the cosmetic changes. It also touts an improved search bar, but I can't find an explanation of what that means. Finally, Apple, Motorola, and Cingular announced the ROKR E1, which has the iTunes on a cellular phone. (Theorized last week.) It syncs with iTunes just like an iPod." Coverage of the Apple news extravaganza available at The NYT, Forbes, Gizmodo, Mobiledia, and Macworld.
That Apple, they think of everything. Now I'm going to go back to waiting for my Dalmation iPod nano tube.
Except how to make their shit affordable. $199 for 4GB? Don't you find that a bit expensive especially when it's really meant to be an end-unit for their super successful iTMS (additional costs and perhaps even rising costs)?
Yes, it's sexy, small, and cute but 4GB doesn't do me all that much and I would constantly worry about losing it, damanging it, or out and out destroying it.
YMMV.
Apple makes a very handsome profit on iPods. You don't have to fill them with iTMS songs (MP3s work just as well) but the pairing of iPod with iTunes now accounts for over a billion dollars annually in sales for Apple.
Which is why they should be less money. Wake me up when they play video and have TV-out like the Archos.
Spoken like a true elitist douchebag.
Sorry if the rest of us aren't as incredibly refined as you are, but it may surprise you to know that most people who say "I love my iPod" aren't lying. And most people who listen to the iPod shuffle won't come away from the experience feeling enlightened and that all of their other audio devices are inadequate from now on. The iPod is not only quite sufficient, but more than enough for most of us. It's pretty ignorant to simply assume that the rest of the world is solely comprised of knuckle-dragging retards simply because they weren't born with your sophisticated taste.
Right, because anybody who has a positive impression of this thing must be an Apple shill. No way they could actually think it's a neat piece of hardware, huh?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
There is no such thing as a mobo that won't take a particular brand of viddy card. Tried smacking a PCIe into an AGP slot eh?
Transcend Humanity. Please.
Let me see if I understand. Only people who already have an iPod should expect to understand the web page offering to sell them? If I already had one, why in the world would I want to buy another? (Not to transfer files between, evidently.)
"Shut up troll ... you're too stubborn and arrogant to support a popular standard ... I don't bitch at Sony ... People just like to bitch ... "
The reply started out so helpfully ... I guess it's not just Apple. I wonder which got it from whom. I always thought if you paid for something, you had a right to look into what you were getting. I thought it reasonable to check if useful features missing from previous models, and that wouldn't cost anything to add, might show up in a later model.
Maybe I'm just not worthy to host the sublimity that is iPod during its short visit to Earth. Or maybe I'll make a donation to BJ at http://ipodlinux.org/, wait a bit, and see what happens.