Apple reinvents the phone with a breakthrough device
Apple introduced this week iPhone, combining three products, according to Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO: “A revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps — into one smDaylife.com, Mozilla making millions sending traffic to Google, Turner Broadcasting set up a team for new web ideas and Allow users broadcast live video and be the next MySpaceall and lightweight handheld device.”
Cingular, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., will be Apple’s exclusive U.S. carrier partner for Apple’s iPhone, priced at $499 when it comes with 4 gig.
“iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone,” added Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We are all born with the ultimate pointing device—our fingers—and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse.”
At Apple’s website you can watch Steve Jobs’ keynote presentation announcing Apple TV and iPhone, and some photo galleries. Also, screen shots of the conference, here.
Apple TV connects iTunes with your TV set, allowing to buy shows and movies
Apple has unveiled Apple TV, a $299 product which enables consumers to stream iTunes content, including 250 movies and 350 television shows, music and podcasts, from computers to TVs.
The device, available on February, plugs directly into television sets and uses the company’s wireless AirPort router to stream content from as many as five desktop or laptop computers. Apple TV’s first obstacle is that is has not as much content as cable can deliver.
Like other Apple products, it looks good, with a user-friendly interface. And the ability to view photos on the TV screen is another nice feature for Apple TV. It is a nice product, but cable companies will not lose any sleep over it: a few will drop it cable service to buy only iTunes contents. Apple TV is a sort of cable TV a la carte, which handles high-definition video and has a 40 gig hard drive.
Networks’ real pros versus Youtube’s amateurs
Jeff Jarvis, owner of Buzz Machine blog and a veteran of the TV networks, tried to show the effort that goes into a simple interview in network news: four pros who spent hours setting up and taking down a shoot and who put great effort into getting it just right. He wanted to make fun of the TV convention, and did a clip following the YouTube style.
“My video quality is crap and my editing is amateurish”, he wrote. Network’s guys “are real pros and they do their jobs extremely well”, he added. See the clip he shoot and the interesting debate he generated.
Hi-def DVD battle decided by porn industry?
Porn may decide DVD format war. Watch this interview on CNBC with the porn king, Vivid Entertainment CEO, who says that while Sony Blu-Ray is the better technology, Sony is not cooperation with the adult film industry.
According to the experts, it was porn that decided the VHS – Betamax war, and drove VCR adoption. Now it is driving Video-On-Demand and internet downloading, and it could decide the hi-def DVD war, going to HD-DVD by default.
