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Apple Introduces New iPods - Second Take
"Apple is NOT preaching to the choir here, they're looking to get a whole new customer into the house of worship and that's exactly what's likely to happen this holiday season."
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Life Fitness will merge exercise equipment and iPod
"Earlier today they announced a new line of equipment that features built-in iPod integration. Once an iPod is docked, users can control playback and watch video via the machine's built-in LCD."
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The Future Was Staring Us in the Face
"However, aside from his famed “reality distortion field,� the argument adheres to basic business principles and provides an extremely useful template for the introduction of new products and services into emerging or underdeveloped markets."
"The greatest trick Apple pulled was to build a market where lock-in is mandated, but convince the world that this was something they did reluctantly, at the behest of the villainous recording industry."
Apple teams up with Nike to help people track their running. You put a little thing in your shoe and connect another to your iPod and it tracks distance, speed and all that good stuff. When you're done running it downloads automatically.
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Microsoft iPod packaging parody
What if microsoft redesigned the ipod packaging?
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"Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory."
Dos and Don'ts for Beating the iPod (and iTunes)
Anil Dash offers some tips for prospective iPod competitors.
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A long and serious look at the design problems of the iPod.
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"Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is mulling a deal to distribute some television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service"
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Comments from 2001 about the iPod release
Boy, those are a bunch of upset Apple fans. I expect they're eating their words at this point.
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ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
"Apple Computer Inc. said Monday that iTunes users have downloaded more than 1 million videos since they were made available on Oct. 12."
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Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Nice and easy instructions from Mark Pilgrim
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How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry
The Theory: Steve Jobs used Motorola to get a deal with Cingular with the eventual plan of an iPod phone.
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"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
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" Design engineers face the challenge of making consumer products smaller and simpler without sacrificing detail or functionality"
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Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
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"As the stories in the Book of Jobs tell it, the iPod is only one of an entire species to come from the hand of this incredibly Intelligent Designer."
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In One Stroke, Podcasting Hits Mainstream
"Overnight, iTunes 4.9 has already become the most popular podcast-management software on earth; Apple says that within 48 hours of its release, Pod people had subscribed to more than a million podcasts."
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Inside the big switch: The iPod and the future of Apple Computer
"The cold, hard reality here is that the Mac is Apple's past and the iPod is Apple's future, in the same way that the "PC" is the industry's past and the post-PC gadget is industry's future."
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Interview: Odeo founder Evan Williams
Playlist: "Williams’ newest venture is called Odeo, a one-stop shop to help people record, edit, publish, find, subscribe, categorize, and download podcasts."
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With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
"It was free. It didn't involve the museum's audio device, which resembles a cellphone crossed with a nightstick. And best of all, it was slightly subversive: an unofficial, homemade and thoroughly irreverent audio guide to MoMA, downloaded onto her own i
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Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."
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There are two buttons my screenless iPod shuffle really needs: Next Track and More Like This.
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New rivals take aim at the champ
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Analyst sees quantitative proof of the iPod halo effect
Following yesterday's Apple earnings announcements, Merrill Lynch said it sees "quantitative proof" that the popularity of the iPod is transitioning into new Mac sales, as Mac revenue increased by 29% year over year during the company's March quarter.
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Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
On his iPod: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
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The iTunes $.99 Breakdown: Will Online Music Stores Ever Make Money?
Some speculative number crunching over just how much money online music stores really make
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Masses of iPods will trigger Mac market share growth
AppleInsider: "Apple will gain share in the personal computer market over the next 2-3 years due to the iPod "halo effect," . . . and the company's ability to drive innovation with high-quality, realistically priced products."
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The iPod shuffle does not fit into a social-software ecosystem. Cityofsound: "design is dissolving in behaviour, and products are emerging from it."
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Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other
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Copying Songs from Your iPod to a Mac or PC
A good list of programs for Macs and PCs that allow you take take stuff off without iTunes
Turns your iPod into a portable hard drive (for Mac OS X)
iPod/MP3 Player Adoption At Tipping Point
More data from the Pew study on MP3 player adoption
11 percent of the US population owns an MP3 player
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10 Million iPods, Previewing the CD's End
What is the fate of the CD?
Does Your iPod Play Favorites?
Life may indeed be random, and the iPod probably is, too. But we humans will always provide our own narratives and patterns to bring chaos under control. The fault, if there is any, lies not in shuffle but in ourselves.
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The iPod is a revolutionary device that transforms listeners into "cyborgs" through a process he calls "technotranscendence."
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Marketing people analyze the homegrown iPod mini ad
Why iPod/iTunes won't be killed anytime soon
It's about "style" but it's also about cluetrain and "long tails"
Biggest Brand Winner & Loser of 2004
iPod is the winner and Coca-Cola C2 is the loser
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iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!
And that's why college students love them
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Scoble talks about iPod marketing
They have made music a movement
George Masters made an iPod mini ad that could compete with almost anything on TV