MacWorld on Express and iTunes. The part I found interesting:
For those wondering if AirPort Express supports MP3, AAC, or any other specific file formats, the answer is no. AirPort Express supports Apple’s Lossless Compression technology — and everything that your iTunes streams across the network to Airport Express is compressed using that technology.
Apple is on roll, and there’s no stopping in sight. Egad!
The Express requires Apple’s basestation if you want to use it as a repeater, but a wireless repeater for a fraction of the cost of what’s on the market now? Almost too good to be true; I think it’s time to retrofit the [...]
PBS Frontline has an interesting interview with music legend David Crosby. Choice quote:
I think the only way to sell records that I know about now that does look really, really, really promising is iTunes. I think Apple is the smartest company in the country, and they are doing something brilliant.
Wow, I didn’t think I could’ve missed so much on the ‘net. Tons of catching up to do.
The value of music is changing. Songs are being commoditized. Old farts and fat cats just don’t seem to understand – iPod competitors think battery life, storage space, and song prices are the weapons. Glad to see Apple is not in this group. Not convinced iTunes’ “Share Playlists” feature makes any [...]
Gen posts on Jay Samit’s NYT profile. He gives no comment — here’s my two cents :)
I wonder how many top managers actually own an iPod; i wonder if Samit has one of his own. I get the impression not.
I think Jobs is right. Removable media won’t pick up in the states; [...]
Picked up this month’s MacPower, and opened up to a great picture of 1149 iMac’s at a computer lab in Tokyo University. Very impressive. Google images couldn’t find a pic yet, but someone will probably scan it in soon enough. Funny thing is, they’re all connected to a “Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite [...]
Whipped up my own sample iTunes page. Unfortunately Apple now encrypts the connection with AES128, and their xml syntax seems non-standard. At the moment the only freely available iTunes SDK is for the visualizer; any others are supposedly for hardware developers only. HP made a smart move, in my opinion.
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Had dinner listening to some serious Macintosh history within Sony the other night. Koh took some pictures here. Also met a few who know an ol’ acquaintance from years ago — what a small world. Six degrees is only an average, that’s for sure.
eweek article on some upcoming Sony models. Too bad they don’t bother to share some of this with actual employees, if nothing but to boost moral. Not sure I totally agree with Enderle though. The hardware is only part of the equation that distinguishes between Wintel and Apple machines, and not even [...]
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