There’s a good interview with Steve Jobs in the latest Fortune magazine. One of my favorite parts was this: People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the 100 other good ideas that there are. You [...]
Speaking of music (my last post was), a good blog post from Seth Godin about music lessons. To read it all, go here. The main points were: 0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now. Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will [...]
I had a Blackberry Pearl and loved it. I was planning to keep it – until i saw a friend’s iPhone. It was just so frackin’ slick that i couldn’t stay away. Does Blackberry do email better? Yes. Does Blackberry have some better/smaller sizes that are better for a cell phone? Yes, definitely. But is [...]
I’ve heard a bunch of stuff today about all of EMI’s tracks being available on iTunes without DRM. At first i was really happy, but 2 things kept me from being REALLY impressed. First, these tracks are not mp3′s. Everyone is assuming they are, but they’re not. They are in a format called “unprotected AAC. [...]
Granted, i haven’t seen it in person or used it, but i watched the Macworld speech by Steve Jobs about it and let me tell you – the phone looks incredible. The phone looks awesome but more than that, it is over-delivering. Again, Apple is taking everyone’s expectations, throwing them out the window and giving [...]
This is the guy that Apple sued because he always get it right. So this is probably the real deal: Apple iPhone to be Cingular-exclusive at launch By Ryan Katz, Senior Editor September 26, 2006 – Apple and Cingular have signed an agreement that will make the US’ largest cell phone provider the exclusive carrier [...]
Apple has a great monopoly on both the fulfillment and playback of digital music. ITunes is a great player, the iTunes Music Store is the most comprehensive music store available online, and the iPod is the best, most badass player on the market. However, competitors are coming on strong. Microsoft announced the Zune project, Sony [...]
In the past few months, i've had quite a few questions about what "subscription" music is. This is my attempt to explain it. Napster, Rhapsody, MusicNow, MTV, and Yahoo! all offer services where you can get unlimited music for about $10 a month. The one caveat is that the tracks you download with these services [...]
Following up on last week’s post about Netvibes, i just noticed that they have added a few very SWEET features: 1. They now have tabs so you can set up different views of feeds. I personally have a work related tab (internety blog feeds), a sports tab (deadspin, sports guy, others), and a personal tab [...]
There’s a new media player that’s been released called Songbird. iTunes has dominated as the go-to media player for people to play music. And with WMP, Winamp, Yahoo Music Engine and others (J. River) it would seem that the space is pretty saturated. How could a new player even hope to catch up, let alone [...]
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