Comments on: Apple boring? Get over it

By: WellnessAid, AB, Canada

WellnessAid, AB, Canada — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:13:12 +0000

Nowadays, one of most important questions is if we are going to have a good shopping season at all with this market turmoil. iPod (and this particular version of it) could be the best or the worst product on the market. But if the whole market environment will be shaky, all products, companies (and public in general) will suffer.

In regard to absence of novelty and creativity of Apple, it is hard to keep even small and new company creative. What about an industry “elephant” with multiple levels of governance. It's much more difficult in that case…

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By: Matt, Marshall, MN

Matt, Marshall, MN — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:35:03 +0000

Why do people complain about DRM so much when it's so easy to defea? I've been buying Itunes for my Sony PSP for years now. And the conversion software is free. /boggle

By: The Stig, CA

The Stig, CA — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:40:58 +0000

What's an iPod?

By: Tony - Boston, MA

Tony - Boston, MA — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:55:15 +0000

Oh God, I thought I'd pushed Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power out of my mind forever. You just resurfaced some terrible memories

By: Randy, San Antonio, TX

Randy, San Antonio, TX — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:23:32 +0000

Hmm, I don't quite know what to make of anyone who thinks it's unfortunate that the military could benefit from new technology like iPod Touch. Maybe someone will use such technology to defend your right to say such things with just such technology.

By: Randy, San Antonio, TX

Randy, San Antonio, TX — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:20:36 +0000

Um, does "inability to play content in any multimedia device" refer to their use of AAC encoding? You know, the open standard based on MPEG-4, itself an open standard? Oh my, open standards are so much more evil than MS proprietary, license 'em and pay us for it type standards.

I get all my music on round plastic discs and import it sans DRM to use on my iPod myself. Using AAC naturally.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:36:27 +0000

Paul,

Is iTunes DRM all you can come up with? LOL, what a whiner. That is nothing, it was only put there to get the labels to sign on to iTunes. It doesn't do much good, anyone with half a brain (probably not Paul) knows how to get around it, but an honest person won't even notice it. That last part is why iTunes is so successful. (Except among Windoze fanboys.)

By: A., Los Angeles, CA

A., Los Angeles, CA — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:50:59 +0000

Same product, with some minor tweaks. Hope they add a radio someday, but of course that might impact all the extra gadgets one "must" buy after getting a iPod. The dock, the armband, the cover, etc. etc. Also improve the earphones and sound quality, not just color selection!

By: Robert1014, New York, NY

Robert1014, New York, NY — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:49:09 +0000

"thinness"

By: Robert1014, New York, NY

Robert1014, New York, NY — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:46:59 +0000

To the person who stated that Apple is rightly to be criticized for having a media event that is "uneventful," I have to agree that, superficially, this was an "uneventful" event. After all, Apple themselves have done product refreshes of greater import without holding a media event to announce them.

However, this is assuming the nominal reason for the event was the actual reason. That is, did Apple really hold this event just to announce new iPods? It's possible they did, and, if so, they would have been better off not bothering. However, I wonder whether the real point of the event was simply to show Steve Jobs off to the world as still alive and, to all appearances, not sick or feeble, his thinnes notwithstanding.

I think Apple is concerned enough about the rumors concerning Jobs' health that they really just wanted to create a reason for Steve to come out and show us he's fine.

I do wonder if they will have another media event next month to announce the expected laptop upgrades.