Some analysts are predicting Apple will report a strong quarter, despite the company’s low guidance during its third quarter earnings report. At the time, Apple projected its fourth quarter earnings at US$1 per share with $7.8 billion in sales. Since then the company has released new iPod models including a redesigned iPod nano and a thinner iPod touch.
Archives for November, 2008
Apple, Music Services, and the Digital Generation
Posted on 2008 under Apple iTunes | No Comment30 Nov
Kevin Maney writes: Don Tapscott has spent a decade studying the first generation that grew up in the Internet era. In 1999, he published Growing Up Digital . This month, he came out with its sequel, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World. When I started reporting the piece on the coming decline of Apple’s 99-cents-a-song music model, I talked to Don about how this digital generation cumulatively looks at music consumption.
James Greene Jr Dogs barking Beatles songs. Better than sex, money, cheeseburgers, farts, and skydiving combined. We had no idea that animals contributed so much to James’ love of music until now… Feeling uninspired/unmotivated/super flippin lazy this week, so here s a quick trip through the bowels of my iPod courtesy of that wonderful shuffle feature. L.A. Girl by the Adolescents Bratty So-Cal punks complaining about vapid area chick.
Paramount rolls School of Rock music app for iPhone, iPod Story By
Posted on 2008 under iPod shuffle | No Comment30 Nov
MUMBAI: Paramount Digital Entertainment has developed a new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod, which teaches people how to play music like a Rock Star. The application is called School of Rock is available from Apple’s App Store. The School of Rock app is based on the 2003 Paramount Pictures’ theatrical release and tells the story of a struggling musician who takes a substitute teaching job, winds up teaching the kids music and helps them to form a band.
Oh Mr. Jobs can you fix my Apple iPhone? Phone Reviews
Posted on 2008 under Apple software | No Comment30 Nov
Love it or hate it, and most love it; the Apple iPhone 3G isn’t quite as perfect as Steve Jobs or everyone else wants it to be. Customer feedback has now gone public on Please Fix the iPhone. Please Fix the iPhone is a website which allows Apple iPhone owners, and anyone else who likes too, list what they feel needs fixing on the Apple iPhone.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/wp-trackback.php?p=2418
Posted on 2008 under Apple iTunes | No Comment30 Nov
Two major retailers in Europe have told Gizmodo that they can t order any more Mac minis and to expect no more of it. While this could simply signal that Apple is clearing the channel to make room for a speed-bumped model Gizmodo s sources are telling them that the Mac Mini may be dead dead DEAD for real. The Mac mini was introduced in January 2005 as the most affordable Mac ever and was last updated in August 2007 (to Core 2 Duo), 441 days ago.
Apple was set to announce quarterly earnings results Tuesday
Posted on 2008 under MacBook Pro | No Comment30 Nov
Apple on Tuesday will announce its quarterly results and according to the Wall Street Journal the market will be watching them for clues as to the overall health of consumer spending. A week after unveiling a new series of MacBook computers and still riding the success of the iPhone, Apple may be a bellwhether of where the CE market is heading. Apple’s stock, however, has dropped nearly 50 percent since the start of the year.
This iPod touch also offers Nike+iPod support, a feature also found in the iPod Nano. Nike+iPod allows an iPod to receive data from a Nike+ sensor (sold separately), which is intended to be worn in a special compartment in a Nike+ running shoe. Previously, users had to attach an add-on receiver to an iPod Nano to use the running sensor, or use the Nike+SportBand. The integrated receiver makes using the Nike+ system simpler. Apple has confined the Nike+ system to flash-based iPods with displays.
I even had a situation where we got a new MacBook Pro to replace a horribly faded display on an iMac G4. Did Migration Assistant to the MBP which ended up with the SAME display problem. Reinstalled systems on both of them and the problem went away. On. Both. Of. Them. To think we considered (for a brief moment) paying big money for a new display on the iMac.
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