Tag: IPod
Opinion: Are we not clever enough to withstand Apple's spin
Jonathan Weinberg writes… Hands up who's going to be buying a new iPod after last night's announcements from San Francisco? Keep your hands up if you are all fools – and what is it they say about those and their…
Opinion: Why music geeks won't replace their iPod with a mobile phone just yet
We’re all set for Apple’s latest product launch tomorrow, with rumours about new iPods at fever pitch. There’ll be fat Nanos, touchscreen iPods with DAB tuners inside, and a Winehouse-branded model with a plug-in beehive speaker and trackmarks on the side. Well, some of those.
The point is that people are genuinely excited about the prospect of all-new iPods. Wasn’t the iPhone supposed to kill this sort of thing off? MP3 players, I mean. What with the iPhone, Nokia’s new Music Store, and Sony Ericsson’s success with its Walkman phones, you’d think standalone MP3 players were old news.
iPod obsolete, Walkman device will rule, says boss of Sony-owned record label
Rick Rubin, co-chairman of Columbia Records, has publicly stated that the iPod and iTunes models are doomed, with the way to go being subscription-based, music-anywhere, services.
In fact, he thinks the whole music business will only be saved by going to a subscription model, but he’s quick to pick on the iPod. “The iPod will be obsolete, but there would be a Walkman-like device you could plug into speakers at home,” he said.
Rubin’s motivation is that adopting cheap music subscription services will curb illegal downloads, believing that “If music is easily available at a price of five or six dollars a month, then nobody will steal it.”
I’m not convinced.
Shiny Video Review: Gear4 House Party Blu Speakers and Dock
Zara takes a look at this Gear4 speaker and iPod dock, which plays your music either through an MP3 device or through Bluetooth.
Gear 4…
New OS X iPods rumoured… but is Apple planning a handheld games device?
Well-connected blog AppleInsider has a story claiming that next month will see the launch of Apple’s next-gen iPods, running an embedded version of Mac OS X.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 20-Aug-07: iPods, Windows Home Server, Fark, pirate DVDs, Facebook
– iPods are scarce in South Korea, with all advertising grinding to a halt also (Gadget Lab)
– Windows Home Server may drop on August the 27th (Engadget)…
Top 10 features we want in the next iPod
The internetweb would be a boring place if it wasn’t for Apple, which fuels endless speculation about its upcoming products by… saying nothing at all about them publicly until they launch. Such is the case with the next-gen iPods.
Now the iPhone is out, it’s clear that the iPod could do with a revamp. Rumour has it that September could be the date for the unveiling (and immediate shipping) of new iPods, so I thought now was time to compile a wishlist of new features. Well, there might be time to squeeze them in. Starting with…
Shiny Video Review: Philips AJ300D Docking Entertainment System
Susi tests out another iPod dock and attempts to find out what makes this dock different from others…