Here’s a great little video which has a Sales Guy vs. a web dude. I love how he’s playing Halo throughout it all anyway. Oh, and the way the icons are on the desktop is priceless.
…you may start your landing.
Whoever this is officially has the greatest wireless network name ever. The only thing I ask of you is if you are out there, send us an email. Because we want a picture of it with no encryption for just a second so we can say “The shield is down!”
Oh, and this was also while waiting in line at the Apple Store in SoHo Wedensday night.
While waiting inline at the Apple Store in SoHo last night to see Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway promote their new movie Get Smart, this car passed by which clearly has the Zune logo on it’s spare wheel cover, and on the side window. Clearly that person is obsessed.
Here’s a bonus picture of me and John Hodges after the event.
We missed Steve, and Anne apparently, but John was walking around, and caught a picture with him. Stephen Colbert was also there, he did the interview, we missed him walking out too.
Ever since I got my iPod Touch back in September of 2007, I have been inlove with it, and use it everyday. Of the many iPods i’ve owned, and used over the years, this one is my favorite. Tha beiging said, the announcment of the new iPhone 3G earlier today was a, not supprising, but b. interesting.
Straight from the source (apple.com), a new 8GB iPhone will retail for $199. A new 8GB iPod touch, $299. For the price of an 8GB iPod touch, you could get a 16GB iPhone in Black or White! That is very interesting isn’t it?
One of the key differences between my choice of getting the iPod touch over the iPhone was the price. (I am an at&t wireless customer, so no unlocking needed). Now that the table’s have turned, and the iPhone is $100 cheaper then its strictly music based sister, I have a major dilemia on my hands.
Let’s put aside all the differences between the phone, and the music player, and just think it through this way. Either Apple is making no profit, or taking loss on the new iPhone in order to gain market share. Or they are moving away from the portable music industry, and into the mobile phone one.
Both scenarios I find hard to believe. As for the first choice, well, considering that it was estimated that Apple was making up to if not over 50% margin from each iPhone v1 sold last year, it’s hard to believe that they drastically cut that margin to 5% even 1%. Now, I will agree in a year’s time some, if not most of the components inside the iPhone have decreased in price, but to shave off 50% just seems unlikely.
Now onto the seemingly more unlikely second choice. Seeing as how most people claim that the iPod is one of the main factors in bringing Apple as a company back from the dead, and is credited with it’s famous halo effect at increasing Apple’s market share. But certain events need to be taken into account. With the exception of the iPhone, the iPod has seen less new updates over the past year compared to the rest of the Apple product line. Granted, a few processor speed bumps are no proportional in iPod terms, but, increase battery life, increase storage, and decrease prices are all things missing.
Even in the past few months, with the SDK, it’s been mostly geared towards the iPhone, whereas many of the apps will be perfectly at home on the iPod touch as well. Is it just me, or is it seeming like Apple has been putting less into the iPod platform, and more into the other media outlets.
Steve Jobs said there were three parts to Apple today, Mac, Music (iPod, and iTunes), and iPhone. However, the way I see things today, I see it as the iPhone, and iTunes becoming more powerful then the iPod itself. Which could be a good thing, or a bad thing, we may never know.
Now, I could be totally, and completly wrong about all this, and in 2 weeks, Steve Jobs could announce a brand new iPod that puts everything before it to shame, and I’ll be forced to eat my words. But I don’t see that happening.
Now I just need to decide if I want a new iPhone 3G or not…
So, just like the LED Plexiglas heart I made for valentines day, I made another LED Plexiglas thing, this one however, was for me. I also made it a little bigger, and by a little, I mean it’s 8″ x 10″, where as the heart was only 5″x4″. Oh well, I like it. Also, unlike the heart, this one is powered by USB, and has a slick aluminum base and frame. I figured, let’s make it really Apple like, and brushed aluminum was the way to go.
I made the etching pretty much the same way, and all, and I think it came out really, really nice.
We have pretty much perfected the method to make these, and if anyone is interested in them, please, send us an email: led@deadlycomputer.com Right now we can do simple designs, with one or two different colors of LEDs, but as we fine tune the process more, and get more experience, we will be able to do complex designs, with as many colors as you want!
Real or photoshopped, this is still an awesome image.
Has anyone else noticed that the when shuffling songs with iTunes 7.6, or the iPod Touch firmware 1.1.3 there, artists aren’t really random, but come in doubles?
I have a few playlists of about 400 songs each, and with all my favorite artists. Most artists have at least 2, sometimes as many as 10 songs each. I put the playlist on shuffle, and forget about it, but ever since the new updates of iTunes to 7.6, and the iPod Touch firmware to 1.1.3, the shuffle really doesn’t seem random. I average 3 songs by different artists, then 2 by the same artist, then another 3-4, then 2 more the same artist again. This happens no matter how many times I shuffle the list, and restart iTunes, or the iPod.
It’s not too annoying, but it is slightly, I have it on shuffle so I can hear my music randomly, not in order. Has anyone else seen this type of behavior or am I just imagining things?
Here’s an update to the View Lyrics missing on iPod touch from September.
Turns out that with the optional $20 software package that Apple released as the “January Software Upgrade” you can now view the lyrics by tapping on the cover art of the currently playing song. I don’t have any photos of this, because I think it’s silly and stupid to buy this software that should be free. Hopefully when the SDK is released next month, either a. the software will be free, or b. someone will provide an app that does exactly that, but for free.
Either way, thought it would be useful for you all to know that with the current Software, you can indeed view the lyrics on your iPod touches…for $20.
Can’t run Leopard, or, just don’t want to use Leopard on a G4, put the case to good use as a mailbox, and send me the insides to microwave
In under a month, shares of Google stock have risen from $595 up to the current price of $702. I just have to say, that is incredible, and I’m glad I still have my 1 share I was able to get when it was down at a more believable $300
