Apple Spree

Apple has announced a few things in its latest release spree.

Act 1.

Mainly the new iMac which has 3 new features; Thinner, Built in iSight camera and ‘Front Row’. Other things it has include this new app called ‘PhotoBooth’ which takes your pictures using the iSight camera and can use them for your iChat display picture or your account picture. It has a remote control to use with Front Row and now ships with a ‘Mighty Mouse’ (about time!). Of course the tech specs are also much better, and it%u2019s priced at the same price. They even managed to reduce the price of the 20″ models (they obviously want you to buy them instead because they’re even thinner then the 17″ ones).

Act 2.

iPods have 75% of the mp3 player market. Steve Jobs talks about the releasing of the iPod nano, claiming to have shipped over 1Million iPod Nanos in the first 17 days. The new white iPod has been announced, and Steve Job’s words:

“Yes, it does video”.“Yes, it does video”. Steve Jobs

It has a 2.5″ display 320×240 pixels, 260,000 colours, support for h.263 QT decoding at 30fps and MPEG4 at 30fps, and it now has TV out too! These things just keep getting better, with 30gb and 60gb models. The 30gb is 31% thinner with 50% more storage and the 60gb is 12% thinner then the predecessor 20gb. And they’re making a black one, yey! The 30gb is £219 and the 60gb is £299.

Act 3.

200 Million copies have been distributed by Apple; it also has an 82% legal music market share. This one you wouldn’t guess. iTunes 6. Already?

New features ->
1. Gifting, gift someone a song, album, playlist and point 4.
2. Customer reviews, can kinda guess what they are!
3. ‘Just for you’, personalised recommendations (beta with feedback).
4. Video, buy music videos with iTunes
They have over 2,000 videos at the moment with previews. $1.99 each, dunno in £. Also with short pixar films. 320×240, size of about 6 songs and governed under FairPlay (yak).
5. You can also buy TV shows; Lost, That’s so Raven, desperate housewives and some others. (at this point Steve Jobs makes a mistake by saying lets take a look at it on the ‘iMac’ instead of the ‘iPod’. thats a bit random but its funny. They can be bought the day after the air on TV (in the US), and apparently its never been done before! Again in 320×24o which isn’t that good.

If you don’t buy music off iTunes, there isn’t really much you can do with iTunes 6! In fact I haven’t seen an advantage of it over iTunes 5 apart from that.

Thats all i’ve watched up too, they are so long…!