OK, so let’s get this whole new world of music straight… Apple now allows iPhone and iTouch users to buy iTunes songs without a computer and they’ve teamed up with Starbucks to offer in-store song shopping, but not yet… Amazon.com now sells real mp3s with no DRM or watermarking for less than iTunes, making Apple […]
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Of Price Cuts and Buyers’ Remorse
On Wednesday, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone from $599 to $399. Predictably, many people went wild, complaining that they got ripped off by this 33% price cut after just 10 weeks of sales, while others defended the move, comparing it to price cuts by Sony (PS3), Microsoft (XBox), and even Apple itself (Mac […]
Apple Rocks the Flash
Apple just announced a total refresh of their iPod line, bumping up storage capacity across the board. The little Shuffle is the only one without more storage (still at 1 GB), but the Nano now has a nice screen (with movies) and 4 or 8 GB of flash storage. The disk-based iPod (now the “Classic”) […]
Online Storage? Hardly!
Robin Harris blogged today about Google’s pay-for-storage service, and he hit the nail on the head. It (and pretty much every other current online storage service) is nearly worthless to most folks because it lacks one simple thing: A usable interface. Set aside Google’s traditionally horrid (lack of) marketing and you’re left with a service […]
iPhone Ahoy!
Shannon (my wife) got me an iPhone for an anniversary gift. Pretty cool eh? I’m typing this on it now. So far my experience has not been good. It locks up constantly, forcing me to restore it repeatedly. Not sure if I got a bum unit or if its a software issue or what. I’m […]
