Although the iPod still dominates the standalone media player space with more than 70 percent of the market, sales are shrinking — in fact, “shriveling” might be a better descriptor. However, if you’re out on the street, there are still plenty of telltale white earbuds. Though everything looks the same — Apple, Apple everywhere (i.e. iPhones) — a subtle change has occurred that has music makers’ cashing in.
Whether an act of desperation or masterstroke before the kill, ailing Motorola is playing for survival and, because Google could soon own them, the stakes are incalculably high. Although there’s no question they will come to terms with Apple, how the cost is calculated is yet to be settled and the final tally could change everything.
Just a few years ago my kids and their Nintendo DSes were inseparable. Thereupon, trips to the mall and GameStop were common, and I considered getting out of there just $30 poorer a success. Now, thankfully, my kids have moved up and to the iPod touch and we haven’t been back to the mall — victory!
Herman Cain’s reality distortion field failed him one too many times. Then again, maybe he just didn’t have the stuff to be president — you’ve really got to project. Here we have another instance — someone much less important yet no less comical in his attempt to bend the space-time continuum to his flagging will.
You’ve got an ordinary job and live in an ordinary house with your ordinary family. Good stuff. To keep all of that going you probably don’t want anyone to know about your forays to the dark side to view “vegesexual lesbian lobster men” (or whatever you’re into). To keep anyone who knows how to access Safari History from finding out, here’s what you do.
You get what you pay for and, when you buy an iPhone, three years or more of operating system upgrades is what you can count. However, are Apple’s mobile legions taking advantage of the latest update offer? Find out which iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users are taking the plunge.
Features, shmeatures. When it comes to Android and devices that run it, features are just so many bullet points, a checklist of things that sort of, maybe, sometimes work — think voice recognition and glacial camera apps. Unfortunately, the Hong Kong “event” where it launched produced almost zero sizzle.
First there was the buzz generated by Apple’s onstage demos. Exciting, yes, but often not a good indicator of how features will behave in the wild. However, as a lucky few users lay hands on the iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and, more to the point, Siri, unfounded optimism is transitioning firmly into, “Holy cow, it really is that cool.”
One of the things we learn about iPhone launches, often months after the fact, is how many units Apple prepared ahead of time. Last time around, 1.7 million iPhone 4s shipped in the device’s first three days and long lines of people queuing outside Apple Stores dominated the news cycle. It looks like that’s how Cupertino’s playing it again this time.
Apple will be making iPhone next announcements on Tuesday, October 4 and it’s overwhelmingly likely that Tim Cook will lead an ensemble cast on stage at the company’s 1 Infinite Loop headquarters where the event will be held. That’s all very well and nice, but when can I get one?
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