Monday, July 26, 2004
Since all eyes are on the iPod, here's some more interesting news:
Here's a cool article in Wired about the birth of the iPod and how it was created. Steve had a lot to do with this product. I like how prototypes of the iPod were in giant boxes with the controls in different places, so you could use it, but you had no idea what it would look like.
Thousands of people line dup in Japan to buy a Mini iPod. No, I wasn't in line with them.
Creative Labs has released a new 20GB mp3 player to take on the iPod. $270 for 20gb. Except it's 70% bigger by volume, and 25% heavier. Also, their claim of 10,000 songs is based on 64kbits/second WMA. who the fuck uses that? Good luck guys.
And since Real Player can't compete with the iPod, they are designing software to play real player files on an iPod
Here's a cool article in Wired about the birth of the iPod and how it was created. Steve had a lot to do with this product. I like how prototypes of the iPod were in giant boxes with the controls in different places, so you could use it, but you had no idea what it would look like.
Thousands of people line dup in Japan to buy a Mini iPod. No, I wasn't in line with them.
Creative Labs has released a new 20GB mp3 player to take on the iPod. $270 for 20gb. Except it's 70% bigger by volume, and 25% heavier. Also, their claim of 10,000 songs is based on 64kbits/second WMA. who the fuck uses that? Good luck guys.
And since Real Player can't compete with the iPod, they are designing software to play real player files on an iPod