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How iPods work: how the wheel and the software inside Apple’s iPod work.

All Apple advertisements

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50 Fun Things to do with your iPod

Jared dresses up in an iPod costume and wins.

PC iTunes hits 1 million downloads. Apple also announced a promotion with PepsiCo Inc. starting in February in which 100 million winning bottle caps on certain Pepsi drinks grant the winner a free song. When I read that, I said, “That’s 99 million dollars!” Then I said, “No, it costs just the royalty… which may be a fixed cost anyway.” Then I figured, “Lots of people will buy Pepsi. Maybe Pepsi paid Apple for it.” Smart move, Jobs.

Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter

Good and Bad. Mac and PCs. On TV.

The new iMac was designed by Jonathan Ive. (Aside: Onion spoof.)

Mac Myths for Windows users. Incidentally, I didn’t know about Apple’s open source efforts.

Apple releases a UNIX-based operating system – OS X.