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Apple admits problem with iPod nano
ReutersApple Computer Inc. responding to complaints the screen on its sleek, recently introduced iPod cracks too easily, said on Wednesday it will replace any defective units...
[T]he problem has occurred in less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the iPod nanos sold so far. "Any user with a defective screen should contact Apple ... and we will replace it for free," the spokesman said. "It's not a design issue."
Problems surfacing with iPod Nano screen
CNETSome owners of Apple Computer's new "impossibly small" iPod Nano are starting to wonder if the device is also impossibly delicate.
The most widespread complaint about the otherwise highly praised device seems to be that the color display screen gets scratched extremely easily.
Motorola CEO: 'Screw the nano'
MacCentralApple Computer's newest MP3 player, the iPod nano, is receiving rave reviews and analysts believe the device will solidify Apple's dominance in the competitive MP3 player market for at least another year. However, not everyone praises the device -- Motorola CEO Ed Zander had some harsh words for the nano in a recent interview.
"Screw the nano," said Zander. "What the hell does the nano do? Who listens to 1,000 songs?"
Update: CEO's advice for iPod nano a joke taken out of context, Motorola says
How Apple keeps iPod competition at bay
Mail & Guardian
The success story of Apple's iPod music player has impressed the whole sector. The Californian computer manufacturer has sold 22-million iPods since 2001, including 6.2-million of the music players in the last business quarter, corresponding to about 70% of the worldwide market.
Apple boss Steve Jobs recently presented the new iPod nano in San Francisco. It is just the size of five business cards laid on top of each other.
Steve Jobs discusses iPods, music labels, and more
MacCentraliTunes and the Motorola Rokr phone “We wrote the iTunes software for that phone,” said Jobs. “We see it as something we can learn from. It was a way to put our toe in the water and learn something,” he said...
iPod and video Jobs took some time to discuss video on personal devices, like the much-rumored Video iPod. While some companies are making moves in the video market, Jobs said that the market isn’t yet right for personal video devices...
Music labels getting greedy Recent reports have revealed some labels have been attempting to force Apple to change the prices it charges on the iTunes Music Store. Calling the labels “greedy,” Jobs confirmed that one label wants higher prices — Jobs is putting up a fight.
iPod's law: The impossible is possible
CNET news.com
Apple Computer says its iPod music player and iTunes Music Store have 74 percent and 85 percent of their worldwide markets, respectively. But according to Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, the end is near.
"Nobody can sustain an 80 percent market share in a consumer electronics business for more than two or three years," Munster told CNN. "It's pretty much impossible."
Well, he's right about one thing: Apple's market share won't stay at 80 percent. It's about to go up. If you doubt that, then you haven't yet handled the iPod Nano.
iPod is CNET's Best Products of Last 10 Years
CNET
Gadgets of every description have flowed through the doors of CNET for 10 years. Picking a list of the 10 best is an exercise in healthy but vocal arguments...
1. iPod
No other product has had the incredible, loyal devotion that the iPod inspires. It's also one of only a handful of products to get a 9 rating from CNET. It revolutionized and popularized music players with its stylish design and is still considered the industry leader.
Rhymes With Ditty
Daring Fireball
1. See news item that Dell had released a new flash-memory-based music player to compete against the iPod Shuffle: the Dell DJ Ditty.
2. Note that no picture of said Ditty accompanies news item.
...
7. Begin to suspect that even Dell is not very proud of this device.
Dell Ditty to Take On iPod Shuffle
BetaNewsDell on Tuesday debuted the "Ditty" - its answer to the iPod Shuffle which the company hopes will prove more successful than previous incarnations of its DJ music players. At $99 USD for 512MB, the Ditty is aimed at taking away some of Apple's Shuffle market share this holiday season.
iPod Casualty: The Rio Digital-Music Player
Wall Street JournalApple Computer Inc. began gobbling up market share in the digital-music-gadget business shortly after the first iPod went on sale in 2001. Now, the damage to Apple's competitors is growing and has claimed the brand behind the industry's first hit product: Rio.
The reason: Apple Computer's entry in January into the market for lower-cost digital-music players based on flash-memory chips. The company's iPod Shuffle devices accounted for 46% of unit sales of flash-based music players in the U.S. -- the biggest market for such products -- during the first six months of this year.
Apple reinvents iPod mini
Seattle TimesApple Computer's iPod wasn't the first digital-music player on the scene, or even the first one to include a hard drive to store songs. But its smooth design and small size captured people's attention — and the market. Now, every new device that can play music is a potential "iPod killer," adding features few people seem to want, such as built-in FM tuning and video playback.
It turns out, however, that the real iPod killer is Apple itself. Last week, the company eliminated its top-selling model, the iPod mini, and topped itself with the iPod nano, an even smaller device that becomes the new target dangled in front of the competition.
Apple's Jobs warns on 'greedy' music pricing
ReutersApple boss Steve Jobs, the man behind the popular iPod digital music player, called the music industry greedy for considering hiking digital download prices, warning such a move would drive users back to piracy.
Record companies have begun rethinking how to price songs sold over Apple's online iTunes store -- 99 cents each in the United States and 79 pence in Britain -- before new contract negotiations come up with the California-based company.
"If they want to raise the prices, it means that they are getting greedy," said Jobs, chief executive of Apple, at a news conference in Paris on Tuesday. "If the price goes up, they (consumers) will go back to piracy and everybody loses," he added.
iPod nano: So perfectly tiny
powazek.comWhy am I babbling on about a bit part on an obscure show? Because I'm the proud owner of an iPod nano, and this is an iPod Reducto would love. In fact, I'm convinced that it's going to turn perfectly sane people into raving Reductos.
The thing is small, people. The photos do not do it justice. Think of a pile of, say, 10 business cards, only less wide. Think of two compact flash cards, sitting side by side. This thing makes my second generation iPod look like it's retaining water. It makes my HipTop look like a HumVee. It makes my Canon XT look XXXL.
iPod nano solidifies Apple's dominance
MacCentralWhen Apple Computer released the iPod nano just over a week ago, replacing the popular iPod mini, they effectively solidified their place of dominance in the MP3 player market. While the company has released no official sales numbers, industry analysts have been closely watching the progress of the device.
“Customers are basically doing back flips over this thing,” Gene Munster, senior research analyst with Piper Jaffray, told MacCentral. “People see the ads and they see it on the Web, but until they actually have one in there hand they just don’t get it...The nano basically gave [Apple] another year in the drivers seat.”
Apple iPod nano reviews round-up
MacworldApple's iPod nano is winning glowing reviews across the world. Last week, Wall Street Journal technology correspondent Walt Mossberg revealed himself to be "smitten" by the product, and an increasing series of voices show he's not alone. Praises from the Detroit Press, CBS News, Time, Playlist Magazine, iLounge, Information Week, and others.
Interested in getting an iPod nano? You can pre-order one from Amazon today...
Apple iPod Nano Packs Big Punch
APApple...has released its trimmest full-featured iPod yet. The iPod Nano plays music, displays photos, is cleverly designed and is VERY small. And if that weren't impressive enough, the Nano's battery lasts more than 14 hours on a single charge.
Unlike regular iPods that store songs on hard drives, the Nano uses solid-state memory. That makes the Nano less prone to skipping when dropped or jostled, though that has never really been a problem with its bulkier brethren.
Stevie's Little Wonder
TimeHoney, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget.
The story of the Nano started nine months ago, when Jobs and his team took a look at the iPod Mini and decided they could make it better. On the face of it, that wouldn't appear to be a fantastically smart decision. The iPod Mini was and still is the best-selling MP3 player in the world, and Apple had introduced it only 11 months earlier. Jobs was proposing to fix something that decidedly was not broken. "Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity," Gartner analyst Van Baker says. "That's what Apple just did." And it did that while staring right down the barrels of the holiday retail season.
My ROKR doesn't rock
MacCentral
It was a pretty exciting week in San Francisco as Apple unveiled the iPod nano and the Motorola ROKR (a.k.a the iTunes phone). The nano has been an incredible device and worked exactly as you would expect it to — unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the ROKR.
I had one of the first ROKR phones sold from the downtown San Francisco Cingular location and couldn’t wait to get back to the office and see how it worked with my Mac. It wasn’t long before my excitement turned to frustration and anger as I struggled to get the ROKR recognized by my Mac and iTunes.
Honey, I Shrunk The iPod. A Lot.
MSNBCEver since it was clear that Apple's 2001 foray into digital music would be a smashing success, naysayers have been proclaiming that it was only a matter of time before competitors would catch up to and eventually surpass the wildly popular iPod player. Even though this prediction has so far proved no more reliable than an Enron balance sheet—as of this summer, the iPod was claiming a 74 percent market share of digital music players—Apple CEO Steve Jobs feels the pressure. "Playing it safe is the most dangerous thing we can do," he recalls telling a gathering of Apple's hundred brightest execs and engineers last year. "We have to get bolder."
Pre-order iPod nano
The new iPod nano replaces the iPod mini. The pencil-thin iPod nano includes all the features of a normal size iPod, like the Apple Click Wheel, bright 1.5" color LCD display and completely skip-free playback, in a sleek package. Holds up to 1,000 songs and features full-color album art, and can play podcasts, audiobooks and store photos, too. Features the same 30-pin dock connector as previous iPod and iPod mini, so accessories are interchangeable.
Available soon from Amazon in 4GB ($249.99) or 2GB ($199.99) sizes, in white or black. Pre-order now to get in line -- first come, first served.
ThinkFree lets iPod users view presentations
Mac News Network
ThinkFree announced the initial beta release of ThinkFree Office 3 Show, iPod Edition, a unique program that allows anyone with an iPod (or compatible MP3 device) to create, edit and transport full-blown PowerPoint presentations.
New Apple Product Roundup
Here's a roundup of the new products announced by Apple yesterday:
Apple replaces iPod mini with Flash-based "iPod nano (Tom's Hardware Guide)
Apple launches pencil-thin iPod called nano (Washington Post)
Analyst: iPod and phone a one-two punch for Apple (MacCentral)
iTunes for your Mobile Phone
Introducing iTunes for your mobile phone. With iTunes on your Motorola ROKR E1, you can listen to music on your mobile phone, wherever, whenever you want
Apple releases iTunes 5
Find out what’s inside iTunes 5, including a streamlined look and feel, a powerful new Search Bar and a host of features that help you find, download and manage audio with ease.
Apple introduces the iPod nano
Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.
Steal My Idea #3 - iPod Voice Control
Chausse.orgI’m sure I’m not the first to think of this, but a voice controlled iPod (or iPod add-on) would be quite nice - and could, in fact, save lives... Now, finding and playing an album on an iPod is quite easy when you’re sitting on a subway car or something, but when you’re traveling 80 MPH down Rte. 95, it’s another matter altogether.
(On a related note, MacWorld reports that iPod-wearing drivers and cyclists are causing accidents because they aren't watching the roads.)
iPod Mini to drop hard drive, gain color display
The Register
Like the iPod Shuffle, the Mini will gain Flash storage in place of the hard drive, though its capacity will not be reduced. Instead, it will be relaunched in 4GB, 6GB and 8GB versions. With no hard disk, battery life is likely to be significantly better than the Mini achieves today, though the move to a 1.5in colour display could counter that. The new release will also be smaller, but the general design - display above clickwheel - is expected to remain the same.
iPhone to build on iPod glory
Australian ITApple is preparing to introduce a device it hopes will leave newcomers to legal music downloads trailing behind... Details of Apple's plans are supposed to be shrouded in secrecy before a press conference in San Francisco tomorrow, but information has leaked out and the expectation is that Apple will unveil an iPhone that will be available before Christmas.
iTunes to yield '5%' of Apple's revenues in 2006
Register UKApple will have sold 1.365bn songs through the iTunes Music Store by the end of 2006, investment house Piper Jaffray calculates.
According to a note send by PJ analyst Gene Munster to investors this week, that's 55.6 per cent more than the company had previously forecast. The revenue realised will account for five per cent of Apple's sales next year, Munster writes.
The iPod's Achilles' heel
c|netThe long and short of it is that the iPod is a great device, but it's wasted on a lot of people. As easy as it is to use, it's not for everybody--particularly not for lazy or ultrabusy music lovers...
Ironically, the biggest chink in the iPod's seemingly impenetrable armor is users' failure to take full advantage of it. And that's exactly why I'd venture to say that ultimately the way for any manufacturer to truly challenge Apple will require both an elegant hardware solution as well as a revolutionary, new music-delivery system.
What's on your iPod?
Rutland HeraldVermonters run the gamut when it comes to the types of music they store and listen to on their iPods, Apple's increasingly popular mp3 player. The tiny music and data storage devices hold thousands of songs, offering an easy but pricey way to listen to the music you love.
Here in the Green Mountain State, well-known and less-known residents are slowly but surely catching on to the trend in portable music. It's not as easy to spot an iPod owner here (look for the signature white earplugs) as it is in say, New York, but certainly some Vermonters are way into the trendy listening and storage device.
Microsoft's 'iPod killer' just 'ain't going to happen'
iPod Daily news
Paul Thurrott writes for WinInfo: "Guys, let me save you a lot of time and money: It ain't going to happen. If Apple would simply open up the iPod to WMA (Windows Media Audio) files and PC-based online music services, the iPod would accomplish two things: It would literally be perfect, and it would blow away any reason at all to consider any other kinds of music players. Don't think Apple will take those bold steps? My guess--and it's only a guess--is that they will if the competition starts to finally show up."
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