Handful of Nothing

Well, new ipod shuffle (square, and very tiny), new Nanos (2, 4 and 8 gigas ) with metal cases and colors (4g only) new ITunes, ïTV” and some improvements on Ipod video’s interface.

First: Search. Ok, it doesn’t solve most of IPod’s problem related to ui, but come on, with a 80 gb music /video collection you must have search!

Second: Games. Yeah, I’m a gamer, should be really excited but to be honest, I’m not. Ok I really like Zuma and bejeweled but the wheel is just not suitable for gaming. Must give it a try tought to decided on this one.

Third: New Itunes with cover flow. Well, apple is known for not being a good girl when it comes to freeware software, and I really don’t know if they bought coverflow of if they simply ripped it off. The thing is : cover flow browsing is really really eye candy and doesn’t hurt to have it, even being usable or not.

There were other news related to the new itunes store, with full movie downloads starting at $9,99 and a lot of talk about market share and after that the one people were really expecting:

“iTV”. Looks like a mac mini but flatter, and conects to your HDTV to play all your digital media. iTV is a codename, but I think they announced that just to say so, and with a “next gen front row UI” it should now be a real competition with Windows media center. Let’s wait to see that on the wild.

What didn’t happen: No Macbook pros with core 2 duo, no iphone, no touchscreen IPod, and no mactower. Apple should really be preparing some real next gen products for the next year or it will face a serious competition from other companys.

Update: so apple really bought CoverFlows IP. What a nice news! Is Apple beginning to show some respect for it’s developers? They really deserve some…
Pics from : engadget =)