Believe the hype. Apple’s movie rental announcement is a game changer for the maligned Apple TV, which should finally get some traction after a rough start. We don’t know yet whether the studios will stock huge catalogs of movies, but the iTunes Store-Apple TV-movie rental ecosystem is ready for its close-up. A brief history of [...]
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Apple TV, Pt. 1: A brief history of Apple TV
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes, Uncategorized, tagged Apple TV, iPhone, iTunes, Steve Jobs on January 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Notes: iTS movie rentals, non-DRM music, Radiohead
Posted in iTunes Store, Steve Jobs, Uncategorized, tagged Apple Insider, Blu-ray, iTunes, iTunes Store, Jeff Zucker, MacRumors, Macworld, NBC Universal, Radiohead, The Beatles on January 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are so many rumors and news items blowing around, I’m going to need oxygen to keep from hyperventilating between now and Macworld. Let’s go: Macworld. Steve Jobs’ keynote address is Monday, Jan. 14, 2008 — one week from today — starting at 12 p.m. EDT. Movie rentals. BusinessWeek says today that Apple is close [...]
Review: Nike+iPod a big improvement over my stopwatch
Posted in iTunes, tagged iPod, iTunes, Nike+iPod, running on December 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Nike+iPod Sport Kit was too obvious not to happen. It takes an iPod nano that is already perfect for running (lightweight, easy to navigate) and adds an easy, inexpensive speed and mileage tracker. The kit consists of a coin-sized transmitter that fits in your Nike+ running shoes — or other shoes with slight modification [...]
Analyst says Apple TV sales below initial projections
Posted in Apple TV, iTunes, iTunes Store, tagged Apple TV, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes, iTunes Store, NBC on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tech analyst Forrester Research, which in May predicted Apple TV sales this year of one million units, says Apple has sold only 400,000 and will be lucky to sell another 400,000 before the end of the year. The report says Apple TV’s sales forecast tracks about the same as the GarageBand loop library CD-ROMs. Ouch! [...]
NBC Direct: ‘Reviews are almost uniformly grim’
Posted in iTunes Store, tagged iTunes, NBC, New York Times on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Big shocker here: People don’t like NBC’s new NBC Direct service. So says the TV Decoder blog at nytimes.com, which links negative reviews from PaidContent.org (“not quite ready for prime time”), Silicon Alley Insider (“better hope hulu works because this won’t”) and Media 3.0 (“if you live in the Dark Ages, this might be a [...]
