New Apple Lust Objects

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"I have the heart of an 18-year-old! He will be sorely missed."

iLiver

steve looking really really skinny now

he looked thin before, but he's positively gaunt now

yeah, not healthy looking at all. Still, operation was barely 6 months ago or something.

Home sharing: at last. Wonder what the price of Genius Mix is.

Is this the Cocktail shit?

Dave fucking Matthews.

gonna buy me an ipod so this better be good

Ha, I wasn't even paying attention, bought an iPod Touch yesterday.

I mean, it was free with rebate (new MacBook Pro w/ education discount) and bought with the sole purpose of selling, but still.

LP is the cocktail shit.

Sorry - yeah, I was following the Engadget coverage and commenting on here.

One last thing - we are going to sell your crappy games to play on your phone.

video camera?!

IPod Happy slap

nano has FM radio

A fucking FM radio. A fucking FM radio, for fuck's sake.

2009

THE GLORIOUS FUTURE OF AN FM RADIO STOMPING ON A HIPSTER'S FACE FOREVER.

Norah Jones!

Can I buy a remastered boxset of all her crappy songs?

With bonus video!

Man, now I can carry around an FM radio and all my favourite Norah Jones songs... on one device! And only pay $150 for the privilege.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

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OMG the FM radio has a DVR-style capability so you can rewind songs. It'll be kind of like having some kind of mp3 player on your iPod.

man i don't pay that much attention to such things but was that the wackest apple event ever?

oh god i remember that one

this one was like all the september ipod events have ever been

Where's my damned Papers tablet.

pretty underwhelming, even compared to other sept. ipod events

so did they not drop the price of the iphone?

Ed do you have papers for iPhone and is it worth it

a camera for the nano but none for the touch sweird

rumormongers were showing new Touch cases with a hole for a camera and more recently mentioning some kind of technical set-back on adding the camera to the touch. Any chance it was planned but they had to push it back at the last minute? I'd think even if that was the case they'd still announce it as coming soon...

"they'd still announce it as coming soon."

apple has never done that with hardware. with you on the planned and failed tho.

"They tried and failed?"

"They tried and died."

This makes me want to do that thing where you make a coughing sound and say the word 'bullshit' at the same time:

You put a camcorder on the iPod Nano. Why not on the iPod Touch?

Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine. Because a lot of the games were free on the store. Customers started to tell us, “You don’t know what you’ve got here — it’s a great game machine, with the multitouch screen, the accelerometer, and so on.”

We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff — we need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.

I got my iPod touch for $200 nearly two years ago, by buying refurbished through the Apple store. it was pretty much brand-new when it arrived.

Apple why the hell do you keep throwing this genre shit into iTunes?

It's awful. No one browses that way. Stop it.

Now I will do the 5-second google+copy+paste it will take to get rid of it. What an awful inconvenience.

Oh wow I actually get a menu option now.

Nevermind.

I miss the days when every new iTunes update had a newly colored musical note icon.

I think they ran out of colours.

None more black.

The genre field is where I put the name of the record label. For techno this is wayyyy more helpful.

the genius mix thing kind of works, assuming that you want a predictable, non-eclectic mix.

Does anyone know why iTunes is not 64-bit yet? I'm assuming it's because of legacy QuickTime issues. But I find that iTunes has become a system hog under OS10.6

64-bit would not solve that.

Apple why the hell do you keep throwing this genre shit into iTunes?

It's awful. No one browses that way. Stop it.

Now I will do the 5-second google+copy+paste it will take to get rid of it. What an awful inconvenience.

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:52 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I browse that way. I have all of my genres set up in broad categories and frequently will just put on a specific genre. So the genius mix doesn't add much for me since I could just put a genre on shuffle anyway. Unless I don't want to see what song is coming up next.

I realize that a lot of people don't do this, but my iTunes library is well tended to. I make sure all artist names are correct, case is correct on song titles, album artist is used properly, year, genre, track number format, album art, all of that has to be correct.

I have a ridiculously organized iTunes library with everything except genre. It is impossible to get "correct", unlike artist name or whatever, and even if it weren't, it is useless to me for browsing and listening. I think a lot of people are like this.

What this thread needs is a discussion of genre.

My favourite genre is Alternative, followed by Rock.