Monday, August 23, 2004

UK music downloads up 200% since 1 June. 2m songs acquired legally online this year [The Register] comment []8:08:39 PM

Students turn to Macs thanks to the iPod. Are iPods driving sales of Macs? USA Today documents the iPod's "halo" effect on college campuses. According to the report, many students are choosing Macs after having a good experience with the iPod. Sales associates at the campus computer stores for the University of Oregon and University of Arizona both tell the paper that Mac sales are up this season; one factor that may help the sales of new Macs is a US$200 iPod rebate for students who buy a new Mac. Awareness of the lack of viruses on Mac OS X and competitively priced iBooks are also helping to drive sales, according to the report. [MacCentral] comment []6:58:01 PM

Transmeta suffers hype and hardware reality. Perhaps the decision to name its flagship product after a fictional shipwrecked traveler who spent almost 30 years trapped on a small island was not the best of omens for Transmeta Corp. [InfoWorld: Top News] comment []6:53:18 PM

An Open Music Platform. John Gruber observes on Daring Fireball, [base "]The iPod, iTunes, and iTMS work with any modern personal computer, Windows or Mac. Yes, the original iPod debuted as a Mac-only peripheral, and iTunes for Windows appeared even later [~] but Apple offered complete support for Windows relatively quickly. The iPod and iTunes are fully compatible with your existing CD and MP3 music collections.[per thou] [Aug 20] [Apple Hot News] comment []6:48:30 PM

Macrovision: iPod support for lock-in CDs in Q4. 'If' it will support Fairplay upgraded to 'when' [The Register] comment []6:38:18 PM

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