132 million Nintendo DS units and ~50 million Sony PSPs sold so far, while the iPod Touch was around 31-32 million at the end of last year.
I really, really doubt the iPod Touch is the "#1 portable game platform in the world." Jesus, Steve.
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132 million Nintendo DS units and ~50 million Sony PSPs sold so far, while the iPod Touch was around 31-32 million at the end of last year.
I really, really doubt the iPod Touch is the "#1 portable game platform in the world." Jesus, Steve.
That guy is such a tool.
Sadly they are.
Look at all the phones and MP3 players on the planet, they all copy Apple. There was a Windows tablet computer, I think it might have been canceled. The only thing different from the iPad has a button on the thin side and the Windows one had a button, maybe two, on the wide side. It was just stupid.
I wish more people would think outside the box instead of just copying Apple to death.
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Jetfire
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I had an iPod touch and it broke on me within 3 months and I put off getting it fixed and the warranty expired...I honestly liked it a lot until it stopped working. 
I had an iPod touch and it broke on me within 3 months and I put off getting it fixed and the warranty expired...I honestly liked it a lot until it stopped working.
Isn't that the case with pretty much anything?
I honestly liked it a lot until it stopped working.
That's what she said!
Anyways how did it break? I had a friend who dropped his into a puddle, the screen cracked but it worked fine. Another got hit by a car while on his bike, he flew through the air 5 feet, pounced off the ground and flew another 10 feet with the thing in his pocket. I bought it off him in July and it looks and works great. Shockingly so did my friend. Thankfully he was fine.
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Jetfire
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I had it plugged in charging up one night and went to turn it on the following morning and nothing...I thought it was the oddest thing...it had been working fine up till then.
[edit] I still got it. It is most likely a battery issue.
[edit] I still got it. It is most likely a battery issue.
Not really, no. Unless you consider "pocketable mobile computer with touchscreen" copying Apple.
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A lot of them do.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/iPod-MP3-Players/MP3-Players/abcat0201010.c?id=abcat0201010
Sony - E-Series Walkman 8GB & Walkman 16GB* MP3 Player - Black, looks slightly different.
[edit] Archos - Key 4GB* MP3 Player - Black at $34.99 seems like a cheap way to get music and functional as it looks like a usb flash drive.
A lot of them do.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/iPod-MP3-Players/MP3-Players/abcat0201010.c?id=abcat0201010
Sony - E-Series Walkman 8GB & Walkman 16GB* MP3 Player - Black, looks slightly different.
[edit] Archos - Key 4GB* MP3 Player - Black at $34.99 seems like a cheap way to get music and functional as it looks like a usb flash drive.
^ Exactly. I had a Sandisk Sansa Clip. It looked just like the old style Apple version but slightly bigger. Last Christmas TRU would have sales on MP3 players and every single one of them looked just like what Apple had at the time, and it's been that way for the past few years. What Apple does everyone else copies. It's just a fact even if you hate Apple.
Nonsense. Some products certainly are copies of Apple products, but there's nothing factual about the claim that all PMP's and smartphones do nothing but copy Apple. If that's what you do think, then you just aren't paying enough attention to the market as a whole.
The Archos devices aren't "copying" the iPod unless you consider all touchscreen interacts to be Apple copies, and that's just ridiculous! On a high level many of them look the same but that's because they're all the same type of product, not because no one else is innovating and that's especially true in the phone world.
Anyone like the New Itunes. I really don't have a problem with it other than the lack of color and not being able to link to the store via the Podcasts anymore. As for Ping, I was searching on it, but it's something I can do without. Kinda wish I had the option to disable it.
If you want to disable Ping, check your account settings in iTunes. There should be a 'Turn off Ping' button there somewhere.
^ You can *disable* Ping (by just not signing up for it), but you can't hide it - unless you hide the entire Store.
The lack of color is really annoying and doesn't work for me at all aesthetically. And they've also decided that the standard OS X red-yellow-green buttons should be vertical for no apparent reason. The new icon is underwhelming too. Oh well, it still plays all my music, and I like the album art being included in the main list.
If you want to restore the original horizontal appearance of the red-yellow-green, do this. Open up a Terminal window and type:
Replace it with -0 to go back to a 'stock' iTunes 10 appearance.
Also, if you find that some of your albums don't have any artwork anymore (in the list view), have no fear. iTunes 10 defaults to not showing the album art if the album has fewer than a certain amount of tracks. Select 'Always show album artwork' and it comes back.
Replace it with -0 to go back to a 'stock' iTunes 10 appearance.
Also, if you find that some of your albums don't have any artwork anymore (in the list view), have no fear. iTunes 10 defaults to not showing the album art if the album has fewer than a certain amount of tracks. Select 'Always show album artwork' and it comes back.
Well, iTunes, especially seems to be where they throw in their crazy UI experiments that some guy was curious about.
"You know, all this 'lickable' stuff was great ten years ago, but it's been how long since we sold a colored computer? Maybe we should go metallic for everything. I just worry that monochrome will make it harder to differentiate UI elements."
"Take a whack at it in iTunes, see what happens."
"Hey, Bob got high and wondered what would happen if we made the close, minimize, maximize buttons vertical."
"Give it a shot in iTunes, see what happens."
Actually, come to think of it, Coverflow is a major and wonderful Mac OS X UI thing that was tried out in iTunes before it spread out.
"You know, all this 'lickable' stuff was great ten years ago, but it's been how long since we sold a colored computer? Maybe we should go metallic for everything. I just worry that monochrome will make it harder to differentiate UI elements."
"Take a whack at it in iTunes, see what happens."
"Hey, Bob got high and wondered what would happen if we made the close, minimize, maximize buttons vertical."
"Give it a shot in iTunes, see what happens."
Actually, come to think of it, Coverflow is a major and wonderful Mac OS X UI thing that was tried out in iTunes before it spread out.