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Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV
Steve Jobs gave his iPod keynote this morning. He started with iOS 4.1 and Game Center which will be coming out next week. iOS 4.2 will add printing to the iPad and will be out in November. The new iPod Shuffle has buttons again, and costs $49. The new iPod Nano has a tiny multi-touch screen, and an FM radio, and starts at $149. The new (thinner) Touch has the iPhone 4 screen, an A4 chip, and FaceTime over WiFi, starting at $229 for 8GB. They all ship next week.
iTunes 10 looks the same, but adds a social network called "Ping," which basically looks like Last.fm integrated, and should be out today.
AppleTV is updating: 1/4th the size, no purchases — only rentals. 99 cents for TV rentals (ABC & Fox), Netflix on Demand built in, and for $99.
... as if millions of fanbois cried out in disappointment and were suddenly silenced. I fear nothing special has happened.
Never mind, there's always iDevice 5.0 right ? Maybe next year.
*holds up the new iPod Touch with Red leather lockscreen* The People's Republic of Ping...on AirTunes we sing...
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
A good number of Mac fans seem to have an abusive-spouse kind of relationship with Apple. I mean I can understand if Apple makes a product you like so you buy it. I know a few people like that. One guy does professional Final Cut Pro work. The Mac Pro works great for him, he'd want a workstation anyhow and the additional hardware (capture, fast drives, etc) were more than the base system. Ok fine. Also my coworker has an iPod Touch. It had the features he wanted in a media player, nothing lacking from his perspective as he wanted it for pretty simple things, also ok.
However I don't get the people who continually bemoan the things Apple leaves out, or the products they won't produce, yet flock to Apple's products time after time. It really is a "He hits me because he loves me," kind of cognitive dissonance.
Buy the products that do what you want. IF they don't do what you want, don't spend money on them.
The movie theater I use doesn't have "future tech" allowing it to just know I bought my tickets from Fandango, thus requiring me to print my tickets. The airshow I went to recently also has the same drawback, requiring me to print my tickets. I find a neat recipe online, I print it now instead of adding some needless bookmark, yes, I could write it down, but it wouldn't be neat and I could write something down wrong. I print an online ad for a sale item at a store, so when I bring it to the store with me, I know what it looks like, the model number, and to know if the store is trying to bait and switch me. Again, I could write this info down and draw a sketch, but printing is better. I'm trying to sale something by putting a notice up on the board in my mail room. I can take a pic of the item and include it on the printed post. My daughter likes to color, so I find stuff she likes to color and I print it. I could go on and on. Not everyone lives in your paperless world; and not everyone lives in my print stuff word. Having the option to print and not using it is better then wanting to print and being told to fuck yourself.