http://blog.rayvinly.com/articles/2007/09/07/new-apple-products en-us 40 <p style="float:left"><img src="http://images.apple.com/home/2007/images/ipod_hero_touch_20070905.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Apple announced quite a few new products for the holiday season a couple days ago. The <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/">iPod nano</a> with a widescreen for video and the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/">iPod touch</a> seem to garner the most attention. I am not a big on-the-go music fan and I don&#8217;t own an iPod and can really use the iPod touch with the cool touch screen interface. It also has Safari built in so I can browse over wi-fi. It works just like the iPhone and who doesn&#8217;t love the iPhone?</p> <p>However, after some more thoughts, if I can only use Safari when I am in a wi-fi hotspot, what&#8217;s the point if I already plan to get myself a macbook? The only difference would be the touch screen UI, but is it really better than a macbook&#8217;s UI, with a keyboard and a mouse? No. Touch screen is cool but the iPod touch is just for play. I ain&#8217;t gonna shell out $299 or $399 for something that I can do better with a macbook.</p> <p>What would be really cool is some 3rd party developers write a Skype app that can appear as an icon on the iPhone or iPod touch so I can totally bypass the cellular network when I have city-wide wi-fi access. Then I can save some cell phone bills.</p> <p>Oh, a larger capacity with both flash and hard drive would be a nice addition as 16GB is really not enough nowadays. The iPod nano does have a 160GB option. I guess you can&#8217;t get &#8216;em all in one&#8230;</p> Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:28:00 -0400 urn:uuid:973033a4-51aa-43f0-b0d8-593bd34feda8 Raymond Law http://blog.rayvinly.com/articles/2007/09/07/new-apple-products Random iPhone http://blog.rayvinly.com/articles/trackback/18