Despite reports earlier this month which suggested otherwise, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs appeared during the highly anticipated "Let's Rock" presentation today, thin but jaunty, where he introduced new iPod nano and Touch music players. The thinner 8GB iPod nano, hailed as the thinnest iPod ever made, will go for $149, and includes a new "shake to shuffle" feature to change song play. The company also announced that that television broadcaster NBC had rejoined online video and music store iTunes."I would call it a series of both expected and unexpected announcements. Clearly the new iPod nano in the flesh is certainly more appealing than it's been. It was expected but I think it will sell well in the holiday season," said Michael Abramsky, analyst with RBC Capital Markets. "NBC is important content for Apple to have on iTunes, especially with the direction it's taking, which is for iPods to handle more video. Having robust iTunes video is key to their success," said Shannon Cross, analyst with Cross Research.
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the 6th Gen nano will have SonyEricsson Style step counters, guaranteed
edit: woop first post
Who cares?
ripped off Zunewent back to the old style.It's pointless, the interface is just about as close to perfection as you can get. (However, building a playlist on the fly would be good.)
Anything else is added bloat.
It's pointless, the interface is just about as close to perfection as you can get. (However, building a playlist on the fly would be good.)
Anything else is added bloat.
You not the only one to think so, Apple stock crashing 4.5% down (yes almost everything going down but MS going up slightly)
Shake to shuffle only works when the iPod isn't on hold and the screen is active. I imagine you can disable it entirely somewhere in the settings.
Shake to shuffle only works when the iPod isn't on hold and the screen is active. I imagine you can disable it entirely somewhere in the settings.
I tried the shake to shuffle with other gadget and it's annoying and you looks like a idiot doing it. So this feature can be amusing for a couple of days only. Other things is to use the accelerometer to adjust the landscape orientation.
I think your 3rd gen is probably the worst design. I like the new one and the 2nd gen (which I own) the best. Good luck on firmware updates... They haven't released one for 2nd gen in 2+ years...
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
A few things I noticed:
Browsing in the grid view by Artist is actually using the Album Artist field. No more separate entries for tracks with guest artists!
Browsing by Album by Title now separates similarly-titled albums such as “Greatest Hits”. WooHoo!
They got rid of the Detailed View which was using Album Artist field already...
The Browser (Ctrl+B) still has the same frigging "Genre | Artist | Album" view... are they frigging deaf? It should be "Genre | AlbumArtist | Album" so you won't get this problem where the Track Artists are scattered all over, for the same album:
http://mpi3cq.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p7Yy...7nIkNDLiz_1V1-0
Oh right, sorry, you meant cheap for you.
iPod Shuffle - for cheap people
iPod Nano - for most people
iPod Classic - for people who need to have everything with them
iPod Touch - for rich people
Plus the iPhone
Ipod nano ... i love the nano 3g mainly because the size. Currently for the nano 3g there are not alternative.
Ipod classic.... im not sure why people will buy it.
Ipod touch... fine but it is not pocket friendly.
I also think they could have added lyrics to the iPod touch - a feature that's been missing since it came out but is on the nanos & classics!
Other than that a 64GB touch would have been nice, but I may be able to live with a 32GB one.
iTunes could have done with an updated UI, it is ugly on Windows Vista.
I have not been able to test the performance of the new iTunes on my machine yet as I have only just really installed it, but I really hope it isn't even HALF as bloaty as iTunes 7.7 was & works faster!
Ahh, I haven't had that yet on my Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit laptop with 1GB RAM. So far it's been very good & it doesn't seem to have that black interface bug when starting up
Don't both the iPod touch and iPhone support displaying lyrics? When you play a song you tap the screen it displays the time of the song and under that the lyrics if you played them in the song in iTunes.
Don't both the iPod touch and iPhone support displaying lyrics? When you play a song you tap the screen it displays the time of the song and under that the lyrics if you played them in the song in iTunes.
Ooooo thank you for that info, I didn't know that & I've never found it out. I don't own one, we just sell them at M&S where I work, on the technology department. I put all my music from home on it so I know some songs have lyrics, so I will try what you suggested
+1.
Only the hardware inside will melt. So it's no big deal. When it gets destroyed, you have the material safe in a cool aluminum case.
besides the new 'genius' thing ... i tihnk ill keep my 2nd gen
They are still doing that?
Yes. I got caught out first time and installed by mistake (promptly uninstalled afterwards). Since then each update requires me to untick Safari when a new iTunes version is released.
Yes. I got caught out first time and installed by mistake (promptly uninstalled afterwards). Since then each update requires me to untick Safari when a new iTunes version is released.
I want to install iTunes just for the radio stations, but it really seems like it's not worth the head aches.
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