Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services, via Apple PR:
One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping. As many more people download iTunes 10 in the coming weeks, we expect the Ping community to continue growing
Damn.
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 to be a real rush to market. Six months is about as quickly as any hardware product can be reasonably engineered.
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 do offer better performance at the same price, while offering even more options for customization. Whether your type of work requires a certain kind of display, add in card, or tons of internal storage, the Mac Pro offers power users the flexibility to create a system custom fit to fill their needs.
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 of FireWire on its MacBooks. It’s the same principle at work: once you intro a feature, you’d better have a very good reason for taking that feature away in a subsequent model, … and “Gee, look how small it is now!” doesn’t cut it every time.
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 question, even though it sure looks like iOS, and Jobs alluded to it running iOS while describing how to move icons around on the screen.
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.
The iPod Classic wasn’t mentioned, but still appears on Apple’s site, so I’m assuming it is just the same as it has been for the last year — forgettable.
This sure seems to be a violation of Apple’s terms:
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Oh, wait. This is Gizmodo. They don’t concern themselves with such things.
Ars Technica’s Chris Foresman, on Delicious Library 2:
So Delicious Library 2 would ship with a whole new back- and front-ends—in effect, it was like a whole new product. But Shipley didn’t stop there; instead, DL2 piled on new features, including a whole list of new product categories it could track, like video games, tools, and other items. It also added web exporting with iWeb integration, a companion iPhone app (which was later dropped due to API limitations set by Amazon), library sharing with friends, improved AppleScript support, and more.