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Holiday iPod Sales May Have Beaten Expectations
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All this iTunes rubbish is clogging up the tube; people putting their messages in line and getting delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Maybe that's why my internets are taking so long to send.
Maybe that's why my internets are taking so long to send.
My Video iPod Just Froze Up
Anyone know the solution to a video iPod that is suddenly stuck on "Do Not Disconnect" and won't go dark nor respond to any combination of held down keys? Thanks.
Just back from a trip to Chicago where it performed flawlessly the whole trip.
Solution is Center + Menu buttons held together unlock it. The iPod automated phone support taught me that. That's one combination I hadn't tried before.
Anyone know the solution to a video iPod that is suddenly stuck on "Do Not Disconnect" and won't go dark nor respond to any combination of held down keys? Thanks.
Just back from a trip to Chicago where it performed flawlessly the whole trip.
Solution is Center + Menu buttons held together unlock it. The iPod automated phone support taught me that. That's one combination I hadn't tried before.
I actually got 4 gift cards this year for itunes. I gave 3 this year. Its amazing how 1 product is so popular, when 6 years ago, it didnt exist.
Guess you've not heard how iTMS really works (at least for audio).
Until v 6.0 the files were sent unencrypted and personalized on the client machine. DVD Jon used this in his Linux iTMS client. Since 6.0 they are encrypted with a common key and still personalized locally.
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Actually Apple is making a miniscule profit on each song. Labels are getting 66ish cents per song.
It's actually 8cm last I remember. 7cm is still about twice as wide as the nano packaging, so it doesn't work.
The point is moot because I tried it with my girlfriend's Nano box. It fits, but I was thinking of the business card CD's, 60mm wide. It fits, barely, but Apple would never use them because too many of apple products use slot loading CD drives and micro CD's can wreak havoc with those.
maybe next year macs?
That would be cool next year if a report comes out about Macs like this.. With all the other stuff Apple is producing, they are not putting all their eggs in one basket and they are diversifying really well. Now going into Video and the Phone markets. Apple is becoming a Sony.
I think it's just a matter of time before Apple licenses the OS to PC Manufacturers. That will be the last blow to M$.
That would be cool next year if a report comes out about Macs like this.. With all the other stuff Apple is producing, they are not putting all their eggs in one basket and they are diversifying really well. Now going into Video and the Phone markets. Apple is becoming a Sony.
I think it's just a matter of time before Apple licenses the OS to PC Manufacturers. That will be the last blow to M$.
There's always the possibility that slot-loading drives will start being able to deal with smaller discs now that the Wii has shown a working version of this technology. You bet someone at M a t s h i t a is putting together prototype 'Superdrives' of this nature right now.
Heh. i use that at least once a day now with my 3g ipod. I'm just waiting for MWSF to pull the trigger on a new 80gb or better ipod.
Combined player / backup here I come.
I personally have been in a holding pattern on a new iPod until MWSF. Along with in car integration for my Prius as well. (Since there is every possibility any new iPod would break the integration.) So Christmas this year was lite on gifts. *shrugs*
Logitec's portable burner slot loads 8cm discs
Logitec's portable burner slot loads 8cm discs
Don't Believe the 400%
What do you do when you go to a website and it doesn't respond? You go to it again. And maybe again. So, I don't doubt that iTunes traffic may have been up significantly, but I think the 400% number grossly misrepresents the actual increase in iTunes usage. Let's see if Apple's 4Q results show a 400% increase in iTunes-generated sales over the same period last year. I doubt it.
-Sam
(3 Macs and 3 iPods in the family and growing ...)
What do you do when you go to a website and it doesn't respond? You go to it again. And maybe again. So, I don't doubt that iTunes traffic may have been up significantly, but I think the 400% number grossly misrepresents the actual increase in iTunes usage. Let's see if Apple's 4Q results show a 400% increase in iTunes-generated sales over the same period last year. I doubt it.
-Sam
(3 Macs and 3 iPods in the family and growing ...)
I think it's just a matter of time before Apple licenses the OS to PC Manufacturers. That will be the last blow to M$.
No they won't. The reason why MS is hurting, relatively speaking of course, is because they have sold licenses to pretty much everyone. No one is upgrading because for many 2K and XP are good enough. (As long as you have the holy four installed.) The only reason they do upgrade is when they buy new hardware. And that is where Apple makes their bread and butter. I'm so sick of people saying this. It makes absolutely NO sense for Apple. Estimates already suggest that there is going to be a huge explosion of Mac sales in '07. And their profits hardly suggest that Apple is hurting either. There is simply NO reason for Apple to license OS X. None what so ever.The only people who keep this hope alive are:
1. Fanbois who want MS dead for petty reasons.
2. People too cheap to buy a Mac to begin with but are still willing to spend half a grand on a PC.
3. People who want to dabble in OS X but don't want to dive in.
All three are minorities. And will become even greater minorities as we get farther and farther into the Intel transition where Macintels show up uber cheap on Ebay. #3 can then go and buy a first gen Mac Mini for pocket change and still get a pretty good idea what it's like to run OS X. As for one and two. *shrugs*
What is the "holy four"? I've never seen it mentioned anywhere.
Its just my term.
Firewall, Antivirus, Patches, and Firefox (With Adblock installed) Takes care of 99.987% of the issues with Windows IMHO.
PS- OK you might want to ad secure, good mail client to that....holy five then?
Huh? Wha?? Zune has a web site. Why? I have not seen the site but I did catch the LAME Zune commercial on TV and man was it bad. How are they selling these or more to the point who are they selling this to? You may not want an iPod but I can't see how you could want a Zune.
For some strange reason they have stopped doing it with the Shuffles and the Nanos. Might be that they don't want to incorporate the bigger CD with the smaller packaging.
I don't think so. I think that possibly this is a good time for the iPhone to come out. By the holiday season of 2007, many companies will have it, and it will be easy to find. Cell phones are a little harder to get in people's hands then ipods because they carry contracts with them- and if they don't, a high price tag soon follows.
14 yr old friend of my in-laws got a Nano for Christmas and a Vvvvvvvvery slow dial-up connection. it took a good 3 hrs plus to download the 35MB file (2kbps) although once she was installed and up and running things were pretty peachy.
More interesting is the fact that MicroSoft chose not to push the Zune out world wide. Thus the iPod has had yet another Xmas salse frenzy in the UK without serious competition - which is going to make it that mauch harder for Microsoft to acheive any kind of market penetration when/if they do put the Zune out.
Also interesting to look at sales patterns... It is the Nano and the new Shuffle (especially the new Shuffle) that are really selling - not the iPod (though they have been moving off the shevles too - so they still have a market). If the US market is anything like the UK (and rest of the world0, then in targeting the "top end" with the Zune, Microsoft have ignored the largest part of their potential market.
Even if a second generation Zune were to be a far better product if/when released to the "rest of the world", letting the iPod get further entrenched cannot be a good idea.
Of course there has to be a saturation point in the portable media player market. One of the reasons the Nano and Shuffle are doing so well is that all the people who would spend all that money on an iPod - have. Now the Nano offeres the same key functionality (video is not an important feature it would appear - perhaps if the iTunes Store had something worth buying it would be different - but probably not). The Nano is also withing the budget of many more - so it is selling to all the people who wanted an iPod but could not find the coin for one. How long before that market is saturated remains to be seen.
Then we have the Shuffle. All that iPod goodness in a small and inexpensive package that is perfect as a stocking-filler or incidental gift.
The qustion is indeed - Who would buy a Zune????
For the record, I own an 1st Gen Nano. I had never thought I would buy an iPod of any description, but I was in the process of switching over to the Mac platform when the Nano was released. I had been impressed with my Mac, so when SJ pulls out a compact little player (not the big clunky iPods we were familiar with) it was an instant sell. Kind of a reverse Halo effect... Anyway - I've been doing a lot of traveling over the last year and that Nano has proven to have been a real good investment - allowing me to keep my sanity while waiting for uncounted flights. I'm not planning on buying another iPod (this Nano will do fine for another year or two). I'm not interested in the full size 5G or a future video iPod (I have to carry around a laptop and that can play video far better if I need it), and a Zune really brings nothing new to the table (even if I could buy one - which I can't).
Wow. If this is true, I feel both angry and enlightened at the same time.
BTW, I think you should do a TV segment on it! (Intentional crash - that really chaps my hide...)