Just a quickie to indulge my inner pundit. All in all, probably about the biggest iPod rollout since the original. Doesn’t mean it’s all tea and dumplings, mind you. To sum up:
—iPod nano: Wow. If I didn’t have an iPhone, I’d so buy one. I really liked my Product RED nano, so I’m down with 8 gigs. All that plus video? Sweet.
—iPod classic: Sweetest click wheel iPod yet. I miss the click wheel. Trying to rewind and fast forward with precision on the tiny slider on the iPhone is a guaranteed exercise in frustration and I hope that Apple fixes it. Up to a 160 gigs? That’s bigger than Vera’s hard drive.
—iPod touch: 16 gigs is cool but otherwise, meh.
—iTunes: Ringtones for $.99? Oh, wait, that’s $.99, even if I already bought it? Well, I guess it doesn’t sound so bad… Only 30 seconds long? Hm, don’t know about that. Limited to specific songs on the iTunes Store, as in I can’t use the songs already on my hard drive? And if the song I want for my ringtone isn’t on the iTunes Store and “a qualifying song” I’m S.O.L.? Weak.
Looks like iToner just got a whole lot more attractive. If I want to trim it there’s always Garageband or Fission.
—iPhone: $200 price cut?! Aw, man! I’ve been a Mac dude for many moons, so I’d be lying if I said I’d never bought an Apple product only to have Apple release a newer cheaper version on what feels like the next day. I’d also be lying if I said it didn’t sting. C’mon Steve, couldn’t you at least wait six months? Christ on a bike.
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