Updates from the Lets Rock Apple event 2008. If you haven't guessed... It's music based
iTunes:
- HD tv shows
- NBC is coming back! All shows are coming back and in HD!
- iTunes 8 (available today)
- Genius: Automatically make playlists from songs in your music library that go great together. Genius sidebar makes recommendations from iTunes Store of songs you might want to buy. iTunes Store is in the cloud, added "Genius Algorithms". It's all voluntary, your library will send info into the cloud (anonymously) with track names, how many plays, etc. But it's not just info from you, Apple will combine it with knowledge of millions of other iTunes users as well. As people keep using it, Genius keeps getting smarter and smarter, sends back down results. All with just one click!
- Accessibility
- New browsing feature
iPod:
- iPod holds 73.4 percent of the market
- iPod classic: discontinuing 160GB and just going with 120GB: upgrading to 120GB for $249
- iPod Nano 4G has been officially revealed:
- It's the thinnest iPod ever made at .25 cm thin!
- Tapered/oval (looks just like the rumors).
- It has accelerometor just like the ipod touch and iPhone (you shake the nano to shuffle songs).
- Genius fucntion on the iPod.
- Coverflow, and iPod Touch/iPhone style UI.
- 4 hours of battery life for video. 24 for music.
- Huge range of colors (silver, indigo, blue, lime green, yellow, orange, red, magenta)
- Plus it's Greener than ever!
- $149 for 8GB (Shipping today), 16GB at $199 (available next weekend)
- New headphones: Square on the cable like from the iPhone, if you double click it, it goes to the next song, single click is pause, triple click is previous song. Also has volume controls up & down, all right from headphone cable. The back side has a microphone which works great with voice recording app.
New headphones are $29 and will be released next month
iPod touch:
- Has same 3.5" display, but is even thinner!
- Integrated volume controls into the side like on the iPhone
- built-in speaker like on the iPhone.
- Genius playlist creation, App Store built-in
- UI is "even nicer than it has been".
- When you're panning/shuffling in a song, a genius icon will appear, just tap it and it'll save it into your Genius playlist
- Built in Nike+iPod
- Battery life: 36 hours of music, 6 hours of video
- 8GB for $229, 16GB for $299, and 32GB for $399 (all models available today, comes with software version 2.1)
- Software 2.1 is available this Friday (free upgrade from 2.0, $9.99 from 1.x)
Be sure to check the
Apple Website for the full video Keynote coverage.
And always remember... "Think Different"
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