Well, given that the current iPod is 4.1″x2.4″, if they shave 1″ off the height, and keep the screen size the same, they’ll have to shrink the Click Wheel and possibly end up with something like this. Given the dimensions, I wouldn’t be surprised if the final form factor is closer to a square (the face […]

Migrating from a 200GB drive to a 250GB drive because my library has just hit 200.83GB - that includes several series of television shows plus movies though. So where’s my iTunes Hi-Fi with 500GB hard drive then?

Ok, so walk with me here. Most of the cool parts of the iPhone have nothing to do with telephony. Between the phone, the ipod and internet communicator functionality, it’s really only the voice calls that require the GSM “phone” part (and even that is redundant where you’re in wi-fi coverage, assuming you can use […]

Almost a year ago, in a post called “Who Cares About Vista?” I pointed out that the numerous delays, lackluster betas and general lack of competitiveness of Microsoft was putting Apple in a very strong position to, basically, rule the world.
And in that post, I mentioned that the one thing Apple could do was to […]

When it comes to digital mass media, there are two factors which remain undisputed: that convenience trumps quality nine times out of ten, and that smaller is better.

Compact Discs were thinner, lighter, and more durable than cassette or vinyl. MP3 is weightless, stateless and (physically) indestructible.

But this isn’t a discussion on “which technology is better”, […]

Something occurred to me after reading this entry from mini-microsoft, entitled “Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!”, where this snippet caught my attention:
“I was upset at missing the back-to-school market. Now we’re missing the holiday sales market. [snip] With the convergence of high-tech media, this holiday season would have been an explosive nodal point to […]