Okay, doing this one from school.
It's the iPod/iTunes event for the year. "It's only rock and roll" is the titles of the event.
Before the event, the Apple site showed a mass price drop, along all the models:
iPod touch:
- 8 GB now $189, down $40
- 16 GB now $249, down $50
- 32 GB now $279, down $120
iPod nano:
- 8 GB now $129, down $20
- 16 GB now $149, down $50
iPod classic:
- 120 GB now $229, down $20
Event News
Woohoo! Steve Jobs came out on stage, his first public event appearance since his medical leave.
The Steve: "I'm very happy to be here today with you all. As some of you know about 5 months ago I had a liver transplant, so I now have the liver of a mid-20's person who died in a car crash. I wouldn't be here without such generosity. I hope all of us can be as generous and become organ donors. I'd like to thank everyone in the community for the support, and Tim Cook and the exec team at Apple. Thank you. So, I'm vertical, I'm back, I'm getting to work with our teams to come up with some great new products"
iPhone news
30 Million iPhones sold in 24 months. 1.8 BILLION Apps have been downloaded.
iPhone OS 3.1 will be released today.
Genius function for iTunes Store on iPhone.
Premade ringtones for $1.29
iTune News
iTunes is now the #1 music retailer in the world. (8.5 BILLION songs sold. 100 million unique user accounts)
iTunes 9.0 will be released today.
iT9 Features:
Genius Mix ("Imagine a genius DJ that plays endless mixes of songs from your library that go great together. You just click on one of the mixes, and start playing it -- and it will go on and on and on. It's like a great radio station.")
New Syncing system for iPods and iPhones (sync by artist, album, genre, film, buy date, etc)
App Management (Arranging home screens for your Touch/iPhone in iTunes)
Home Sharing (think of it as being able to sync up all your media among other computers in your house, nifty, it also allows for automatic updating)
iTunes LPs (albums with all the stuff you usually get with physical media; liner notes, pictures, lyrics, interactive media)
Wish lists (you can link stuff you'd like to have to your Facebook or Twitter pages)
"DVD" Content for TV shows and Movies (pretty much what the name says, all the extras stuff most people but us geeks actually watch)
iPod News
Over 220million iPods have sold around the world, market share up to 74% (LOL, dig at MS, which has a 1.1% market share)
20 million of those iPods have been Touches. Coupled with 30 million iPhones, that's 50 million units of the touch based flash players.
oooo new Assassin's Creed for the iPhone/Touch
More game stuff, there's going to be an FPS called Nova. Looks interesting.
Aaaaaand even more game stuff.
okay... 3rd gen touch news.
8GB = $199
32GB = $299
64GB = $399
(no, that's not a typo, no 16GB model)
it's using the OpenGL capable chips like the new iPhone 3GS's (woo)
New 160GB Classic = $249
New lines of on wire control headphones for the Shuffle including Dre's Beats
Shuffle 2gb = $59
Shuffle 4gb = $79
All available in 5 colors (Black, silver, pink, green, blue)
New Nanos will have a digital (video) camera in them as well as an internal speaker, like the Touch (doesn't have the camera) and iPhone have.
Nanos are the highest selling PMP in the world with over 100million units sold, looks like they added the speaktrax option from the Shuffle to the nano as well.
They've also added a pedometer (for use with Nike+), an FM radio, voice recorder, a larger 2.2" screen, and microphone.
8GB = $149
16GB = $179
All new iPods will be available today.
Aaaand it's over (well, Norah Jones is performing), let the nerd rage begin.
