My first reactions
05/09/07 20:37 Filed in: Hardware
My first reactions to today's Apple announcements.
Well I've got to say, I'm a little confused about
some of the new ipods released today.
No real changes to the shuffle so let's start with the ipod nano, I guess that had to happen. I've only recently (well in the last few months) bought a nano, so it had to be updated! I'd seen the pictures that had leaked on to the internet and quite frankly I'd decided that they where mock ups, because the thing just looked ugly. I didn't think that apple, would release some thing that looked like that!
Okay now I've seen the real thing it's not quite so bad, but to me the proportions just look wrong. Mind you apples design department has made one or two slips of late. Maybe it will grow on me.
The updates in size on the now renamed ipod classic are to be expected and the use of cover flow is again not great surprise. 160Gb though! Thats bigger than every one I know, music collections put together (but only just!) Thats a lot of music or of course videos.
The real surprise to me is the ipod touch. Yes I know every one was predicting it, but I just could not see apple ever doing it, because it would, it my mind, hit iPhone sales.
Why would apple want to do that? Maybe AT&T get a cut of the money from each iPhone sale, but some how I don't think thats the case.
The touch seems to give all the functionality apart from the phone part of the iPhone for a lot less and since it's not tided in to a mobile network it can be sold world wide...
Ah there we go, thats why apple have done it. It can be sold to a much larger market! Even me.
I've made my views on mobile phones clear before and I wouldn't buy an iPhone (in the UK the carrier, T-mobile dosn't have good signal strength around my flat, the mobile internet connection is to slow and I got sick of it!), but I would consider the touch.
I just wonder what AT&T think about this!
The 8Gb capacity would be great for music (about 80% of my total collection) but I guess the 16Gb is really needed for video, but then I'm still not really convinced that this video on the move thing is every really going to take off. However the real thing for me would internet (or at least web) on the move. Now since I've never tried I don't know how many public wi-fi hot spots there are (I do know that with in 100 meters of my flat there are 5 open access points!)
Okay yes, I see the touch will sell and sell and maybe it effect iPhone sales but maybe only in non-bleading edge mobile users like, which they are never really going to make much money on any way!
So I started off this post not knowing why apple would release the touch and now I do know, so thank you, readers, for making me think about things.
And now back to my story...
No real changes to the shuffle so let's start with the ipod nano, I guess that had to happen. I've only recently (well in the last few months) bought a nano, so it had to be updated! I'd seen the pictures that had leaked on to the internet and quite frankly I'd decided that they where mock ups, because the thing just looked ugly. I didn't think that apple, would release some thing that looked like that!
Okay now I've seen the real thing it's not quite so bad, but to me the proportions just look wrong. Mind you apples design department has made one or two slips of late. Maybe it will grow on me.
The updates in size on the now renamed ipod classic are to be expected and the use of cover flow is again not great surprise. 160Gb though! Thats bigger than every one I know, music collections put together (but only just!) Thats a lot of music or of course videos.
The real surprise to me is the ipod touch. Yes I know every one was predicting it, but I just could not see apple ever doing it, because it would, it my mind, hit iPhone sales.
Why would apple want to do that? Maybe AT&T get a cut of the money from each iPhone sale, but some how I don't think thats the case.
The touch seems to give all the functionality apart from the phone part of the iPhone for a lot less and since it's not tided in to a mobile network it can be sold world wide...
Ah there we go, thats why apple have done it. It can be sold to a much larger market! Even me.
I've made my views on mobile phones clear before and I wouldn't buy an iPhone (in the UK the carrier, T-mobile dosn't have good signal strength around my flat, the mobile internet connection is to slow and I got sick of it!), but I would consider the touch.
I just wonder what AT&T think about this!
The 8Gb capacity would be great for music (about 80% of my total collection) but I guess the 16Gb is really needed for video, but then I'm still not really convinced that this video on the move thing is every really going to take off. However the real thing for me would internet (or at least web) on the move. Now since I've never tried I don't know how many public wi-fi hot spots there are (I do know that with in 100 meters of my flat there are 5 open access points!)
Okay yes, I see the touch will sell and sell and maybe it effect iPhone sales but maybe only in non-bleading edge mobile users like, which they are never really going to make much money on any way!
So I started off this post not knowing why apple would release the touch and now I do know, so thank you, readers, for making me think about things.
And now back to my story...
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