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Sent to you by Bill Boulware via Google Reader: Some notes from today's
event via 9 to 5 Mac by Seth Weintraub on 9/1/10



- iTunes 10 is already live.
- iPod Classic is dead. RIP. It is all streaming anymore anyway.
Update: Maybe not. Still, no mention at the event doesn't bode well
long term. Think more like 'we made enough to last a few more months.'
- iPod nano is hella small but also loses the camera which was nice on
a device that small. Even Steve said people would wear them as a watch,
so I get a star. Speaking of Stars, holy cow! Mr. Nano mockup gets a
galaxy of stars.
- AppleTV is awesome but maybe the coolest part is the Airport Express
Video functionality. Carrying around media on iPads, iPhones and iPods,
it will be pretty cool to be able to shoot that right over to the TV.
Renting movies and TV shows does two things. It makes cable obsolete.
It also means that TV shows now are a buck a pop or more. If you watch
10 shows (Fox and ABC) a week, that is $40. Not a bad tradeoff at that
frequency. $4.99 for first run movies is also OK, but I still like
buying BlueRay for the good stuff. Also, what hardware/OS is AppleTV
running? At that size, it is a variant of iOS on A4 most likely. At
$99, this will no longer be a hobby.




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