Horace Dediu: The iPod touch has been around about as long as the iPhone. It was launched three months after the first iPhone 2G, almost exactly three years ago. While the iPad has been in the market less than six months, a large number of potential competitors have been launched running Android and there seems [...]
Chris Rawson at TUAW: For the same price as last year’s iPod nano, you get a much smaller device with a new multitouch-based UI, but you also lose many of the features the old model had. That’s form over function all the way, and it’s just as bad, in its way, as Apple getting rid [...]
James Galbraith at Macworld: Based on performance alone, it seems like the Mac Pro addresses a smaller market each time a new iMac appears. But there remains a need for a highly configurable and fast performing Mac. The new Mac Pros may be little more than speed bumps from the systems they replace, but they [...]
At its annual music-based event, Apple today announced an all-new iPod nano. The new player is small — 1.48 inches tall and 1.61 inches wide. Gone is the click wheel that for so long defined the iPod. Instead, the iPod nano’s face is defined by a 1.54-inch color, Multi-Touch display. The OS is still in [...]
Hardware The iPod Shuffle has buttons again, while the iPod nano is tiny and touch-based. With a clip. It’s really weird. The iPod touch got a Retina Display, A4 and loads of other goodies. Make no mistake — this is Apple’s gaming platform. They company claims the Touch outsells Nintendo and Sony’s mobile game systems combined. [...]
Very cool, but I’m not sure how easy this would be to use day-to-day. I guess we’ll know tomorrow. [via 9 to 5 Mac]
Each time the company does this, I feel a little older.
Steve Jobs, in this video linked to by All Thing D’s John Paczkowski: This is a very complicated world. This is a very noisy world and we’re not going to get a chance … to get people to remember much about us. No company is. And so we have to be really clear on what [...]
