Posted on 10/17/2005 1:10:56 PM PDT by Panerai
This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer. It's also partly a story about a fancy new iPod that plays videos as well as music and that could dramatically change the way people entertain themselves. But it's mostly a story about new things and where they come from, about which there are a few popular misconceptions.
Stop and look at Apple for a second, since it's an odd company. It has been around long enough and has a high enough profile that it's easy to forget that. While most high-tech firms focus on one or two sectors, Apple...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Apple / Steve Jobs on another TIME cover
When the iPod turns into a cellphone, I may consider the purchase. (Yes, I say "when"... I don't believe it's an "if".)
Given this was Time Magazine, I thought for sure this was an article on liberal hatchman "Johnny Apple" and how he managed to rise, shine, then mangle and slant the news each day.
now that politics is forcing Apple to dump Samsung the ipod may have to survive on name recognition only??
Cabbage Patch dolls.
http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=005
What crap. Cover boy Steve Jobs and Apple get more free publicity from an adoring liberal press. What a shock
Nah. More like a chatty Cathy. Only this one comes with a Hard disk and color screen.
Apple stock rocks! Woohoo!
Jon Rubinstein, head of the iPod Division, announced his retirement last week after the new video iPod was trotted out. He was dead set against combined electronic devices, and wanted the iPod to stay strictly music oriented. I think Apple is trying to do to portable electronics what Micro$oft did to personal computing.
Well...try the MotoROKR with iTunes, introduced a few months ago by Motorola and Apple.
microwaves, TVs, denim jeans.
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Yeah, I bet all those people who downloaded itunes 5.0 to find their ipods, routers, speakers, etc ruined are loving Apple right now. 5.0 ruined my comp to the point it had to be returned (it was only 1 month old, and we got it from Costco). Over at the Apple ipod boards it looks like 6.0 is having problems too
While I think Apple's computers are great, these little music players are far from anything exciting. I'd recommend a Palm Treo with phone/web browser/terminal server/live TV/streaming audio/quicken/etc in addition to the music/video capability which seems to be about all these ipods have to offer.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
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