Ok, I am a firm believer thesedays in the theory, Buy the Technology, and Stick with it for its useable life. However........ This new iPod Nano is very very very tempting. Looking at the feature set the fact that you can get a 16gb for a not unreasonable price here in Australia. Oh yes, very very very tempting. Unfortunatley, my old 2Gb Nano, well its working very well still, and since getting an iPhone, my fiance has given me his old 4Gb Nano.... which i've yet to fill.
The Genius feature, I've begun using on iTunes 8, which i downloaded the other day, so far I am only seeing this feature suggest I buy more music. Not suggest songs in my own collection that the song I'm listening to will go great with. I'm yet to be converted to this new thing, however Coverflow is great, its a good way to look at your collection as if it were a cd collection and the new option of viewing your albums in piles under artist and genre is nifty too. I am annoyed though as since the New iTune version came out I can no longer load my library into Songbird. Songbird is quickly catching up to iTunes in the features stakes and not only that it is a fantastic way to listen to music and read a blog at the same time. I'm trying to figure out a way of getting my other blog to host music so Songbird will support it and play the songs I'm writing about.
Its funny though, with each of Apples media campaigns it seems to launch a new indie band into popular culture. The 3rd generation of Nano's featured Feist, and the above movie features Datarock, Weezer, Beck, the Ting Tings and in the cover flow you see Digitalism, Interpol among others. Are they putting themselves up for the Credibility vote or do Apple Staff really have great taste in Music... I'm not sure.... I did see James Blunts album in there aswell so its not totally Credible!
For those Interested, here's the Australian Pricing, sourced from The Vine's Article
iPod Shuffle: $65 (1GB); $89 (2GB)
iPod Nano: $199 (8GB); $279 (16GB)
iPod Classic: $339 (120GB)
iPod Touch: $329 (8GB); $419 (16GB); $549 (32GB)
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