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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.
Finally, a social network for all of the pretentious money wasting dick heads that love apple products. At least this means they will be to busy smelling their own farts on their "we are better than everyone else because we overpay like retarded children for shiny objects" social network. Good news all around. Plus, this means apple can finally make the final step from controlling everything about your devices to influencing thoughts to an even greater extent. Finally the plan is in motion.
... 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.
* You can not mount a network hard drive (without hacking it)
* You can not mount a usb hard drive (without hacking it)
* Format support is very limited. For example: you can not play xvid, divx and a bunch of other formats
I think you're currently better off connecting a computer to your tv and run VLC on it... unless of course you like apple dictating what technology and media you have access to.
I love the iPod Touch. It's so bad.
Motherfuck this shit. Does the fagpad run Microsoft Windows 7 or Microsoft Windows Phone 7? No? Then it's douchebag freetard shit. You fuckers disgust me. You use this shit just to despite Microsoft like you're too good to use what Microsoft has provided you. The only thing is, everything Microsoft makes is vastly superior to this mickey mouse crap you other dorks use. There should be a law against hippy communes^H^H^H^H^H "companies" ripping off Microsoft's intellectual property to put into your shitty little knock-offs. Microsoft has been making slate computers since the early 2000's but you fags act like Apple invented the category. Guess what... you're wrong. You people that use substandard products just to "stick it to the man" when Microsoft has always been in the consumer's corner so who's "the man" anyway but yourself. Get it? You people need to look into the mirror and reevaluate your lives.
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.
Oh, so telling it like it is is "trying too hard". I guess Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. tried too hard then. Sometimes I wish I could reach through my fucking monitor and punch people like you in the face.
There are two things that can be annoying in that oft-repeated conversation, the "why would you want to do that" response, but also the unrealistic (or at least, non-standard) expectations implied in the question.
Take the "printing from the ipad" example. There are a lot of good arguments that this should *not* be a feature. Here are a few:
1. Why do you need it to print a document? The ipad is supposed to *be* the hardcopy! I could buy that it would be nice to be able to print a copy of something already on your ipad for a friend/colleague, but consider that typically we only print documents on machines where we edit them (which the ipad is clearly not designed for as a primary function). Not to mention that you could email it to the individual.
2. Why do you need it to print a photo? Does anyone do this anymore? If you do serious photo stuff, you might have a good printer setup at home (in which case, you probably also have a computer).
3. The software expectations are tough. There are 16G of *disk space*. How much are they supposed to dedicate to printer drivers? What, it installs them dynamically (as needed) via web? What happens when I go to my friends house and try to print auto-magically to his computer...and the internet is down?
I think one could argue that often when $feature is excluded, there is a good reason.
Because you're going to take the paper with you to a place where you don't have such things handy.
Jesus. It's not that difficult. People were printing things before you had an iPad too, even though they printed them from places with PCs and printers.
Wow, you're a total fucking idiot. And some total fucking idiot think you're "insightful". It never ceases to amaze me how fucking stupid you fanboys are. "I don't want to print, so you shouldn't be able to either!!!" And you think you've actually made a point. That's what's very sad.
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.