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Apple May Introduce New iPod on Wednesday
UnHolier than ever writes "Apple may be planning to announce a 'revamp' of the iPod on Wednesday. Reporters from across Europe have been asked to view a broadcast presentation by Steve Jobs at the BBC headquarters. Theorized features for this new iPod include a full or wide-screen with touch controls, ala the ever-popular iPhone. '[An analyst with Goldman Sachs] believes that a new line of iPods will boost demand for the gadget from Goldman's present forecast of about 19.8 million units for Apple's key first quarter - the reporting period that covers Christmas. However, that still suggests that demand for iPods will be flat, at best, compared with the same period last year, when Apple sold about 21 million devices.'"
unusual ways to create additional debt & disruption for most of US, while our fellow humans across the water continue to explode by yOUR hand.
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infactdead corepirate nazis still WAY off track
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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01, @09:35AM (#20433195)
it's only a matter of time/space/circumstance.
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mynuts won 'off t(r)opic'???
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30, @10:22AM (#20411119)
eye gas you could call this 'weather'?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=800488111
be careful, the whack(off)job in the next compartment may be a high RANKing corepirate nazi official.
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whoreabull corepirate nazi felons planning trips
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01, @12:13PM (#20072457)
in orbit perhaps? we wouldn't want to be within 500 miles of the naykid furor at this power point.
better days ahead?
as in payper liesense hypenosys stock markup FraUD felons are on their way out? what a revolutionary concept.
from previous post: many demand corepirate nazi execrable stop abusing US
we the peepoles?
how is it allowed? just like corn passing through a bird's butt eye gas.
all they (the nazi execrable) want is... everything. at what cost to US?
for many of US, the only way out is up.
don't forget, for each of the creators' innocents harmed (in any way) there is a debt that must/will be repaid by you/US as the perpetrators/minions of unprecedented evile will not be available after the big flash occurs.
'vote' with (what's left in) yOUR wallet. help bring an end to unprecedented evile's manifestation through yOUR owned felonious life0cidal glowbull warmongering execrable.
some of US should consider ourselves very fortunate to be among those scheduled to survive after the big flash/implementation of the creators' wwwildly popular planet/population rescue initiative/mandate.
it's right in the manual, 'world without end', etc....
as we all ?know?, change is inevitable, & denying/ignoring gravity, logic, morality, etc..., is only possible, on a temporary basis.
concern about the course of events that will occur should the life0cidal execrable fail to be intervened upon is in order.
'do not be dismayed' (also from the manual). however, it's ok/recommended, to not attempt to live under/accept, fauxking greed/fear/ego based pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking hypenosys.
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Don't worry, Apple have ensured through scratchable screens, faulty earjacks and sealed in batteries that you're never too far from getting a new iPod. Built-in obsolescence is the new Apple model. Your only hope of escape is to stay away from iTMS DRM so your options are open when upgrade time rolls around again.
Which is why iTunes rips to some proprietary format that only the iPod supports. (Apple Audio Codec or something like that.) Ripped your own music using iTunes? You can only play it in iTunes and on the iPod. You'll get to rerip everything if you want to use it on a new player.
Now I know that every time this is mentioned some Apple fanboy will pop up and say that AAC is open, but I've never found anything other than the iPod that can play it. So even if it is open, nothing uses it, making the point moot.
But most of us are in big cities. That's where the nerds congregate. Aside from the super suburban/rural nerds who are afraid of "crime" (read: black people).
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the screen is gorgeous still because I value it, and make sure I take care of it.
It sounds like you worship it, and keep it on it's own purple velvet pillow.
Do you have any idea how expensive disposable batteries are over time?
Probably about the $70 you spend. And I don't remain tethered to whatever recharging system you use. If the battery is getting a little low, pocket a spare AAA cell that day. If I want to be frugal or 'green' the cell pocketed is a rechargable. Best of all, if I forget to pocket a spare battery, I can buy one just about anywhere I go.
Have fun mailing in your Ipod and not having it for a few weeks while they're wiping it's memory and recasing it for you.
Microsoft says legacy (serial/parallel) ports are bad. They don't obfuscate the hardware enough.