Digital Lifestyle
Cloudscout
– December 16, 2007 02:54PM
"Digital hubs." iPod and its successors. (iPhone?) Convergence. How ridiculous will DRM get? Yep, put it all together and it just might make for a successful thread.
John Willoughby
– September 09, 2008 08:15AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Anonymous opt-in genius bar in iTunes. Sounds like Pandora-style recommendations.
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– September 09, 2008 08:18AM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
join us on spork ichat
John Willoughby
– September 09, 2008 08:21AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Can't. At work.
Roger
– September 09, 2008 08:34AM
Coming dangerously close to the erstwhile rainbow Apple logo:
Cloudscout
– September 09, 2008 08:38AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
New iPods are going to come with jelly shoes, Hypercolor t-shirts and Wham! music preloaded?
Roger
– September 09, 2008 08:51AM
God, wouldn't that be awesome. Actually, I was expecting the e-box-set business (and themed iPods) would've taken off a bit more than it has by now -- the shift to downloading seems to be bad for the random swag and trinkets you used to get if you wanted to get deeply into a particular band or artist. The U2 iPod once looked like an indicator of things to come, but it wasn't.
Jeff Cooper
– September 09, 2008 09:06AM
I don't see anything that's going to get my wallet out of my pocket, but then I'm already well stocked with iPods (and an iPhone). I'm glad to see NBC is coming back, though.
John Willoughby
– September 09, 2008 09:10AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Ditto.
Dr. Strangelove
– September 09, 2008 09:16AM
Tritto. The iPod Touch is an interesting device, but it's $100 to expensive.
Roger
– September 09, 2008 09:19AM
Agreed, no immediate must-buys here (though the new in-ear headphones might be worth a look as an iPhone upgrade). They're actually killing the device I'd be most likely to buy this fall-winter season, the 160GB iPod Classic. Might be a good time to look for close-outs.
Dave Loudin
– September 09, 2008 09:25AM
Found where it's at!
Nano is back to the 2nd gen form factor, but with curves! Comes with accelerometer so you can shake it to shuffle.
Dave Loudin
– September 09, 2008 09:27AM
Found where it's at!
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Jeff Cooper
I don't see anything that's going to get my wallet out of my pocket, but then I'm already well stocked with iPods (and an iPhone). I'm glad to see NBC is coming back, though.
I think my 2nd gen nanos knew this day was coming...
Jeff Cooper
– September 09, 2008 10:23AM
My first-generation nano is feeling relatively comfortable for now. Maybe when the new ones are available as refurbs ....
Actually, for me the purchase made more likely by today's announcements is an Apple TV--I'm assuming I can't use my 5G iPod to output HD television shows to my widescreen. I'm still going to hold off for awhile, though.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/09/2008 10:24AM by Jeff Cooper.
Mokers
(Moderator)
– September 09, 2008 12:16PM
Formerly Remy Martin
I am going to look at picking up a refurb video iPod Nano so I can finally start some Nike+ goodness. Nothing here made me need to replace anything else.
El Jeffe
– September 09, 2008 12:24PM
What a journey.
I love my fatty.
Nano, that is.
Pocket (shirt pocket nerd) form factor. Just make it same size (fatty) but all touch-like.
I don't want an elongated Nano
Simon
– September 09, 2008 05:19PM
If I wasn't at work i would do this but someone needs to grab that new ipod nano ad and put that "shes a rainbow" song they used in the original imac colours ad over the top of it.
ddt
– September 10, 2008 07:46AM
went to a "long now foundation" talk last night with neal stephenson -- ugh. what a dreary, humorless and charm-free man. and his writing is soooooo bad. if he just accepted that it's pulp science fiction, it'd be fine, but it was just bad writing. and all the "thinkers, mathematicians, foreseers" read his stuff and adore him because he makes them feel like they're heroes who could save the world, while the "secular" not-thems are doomed.
bah.
ddt
Madaracs
– September 10, 2008 09:20AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
Oooo. Heroes. Coooool.
Dr. Strangelove
– September 10, 2008 02:17PM
Does anyone else find that podcast syncing is broken in the more recent iTunes? No matter what setting I use (all unplayed, all new, most recent new, least recent new), iTunes syncs all podcasts to my iPod (30 GB classic iPod). Anyone else see anything like this?
El Jeffe
– September 10, 2008 03:28PM
What a journey.
I have found that podcasts are more better (yep more better) synced when I use a smartplaylist. So, then they really sync under music/playlists, and not podcasts. Give it a shot.
