April 30, 2003
Music To My Ears?
So, Apple announced a music service. I'm impressed. I think they balanced the rights of the consumers quite well with the desires the record companies. The iTunes interface is simple, easy and all around cool. I can't wait to try this out, except there is one problem - the iTunes Music Store is only available in the U.S. I was very excited about this whole thing until I read that. I have read other articles however, that say that Apple is working on bringing it to international users and it is simply a matter of legal issues, rather than them simply not caring. I can't wait. Apple's hit something here.
I'm excited about the new iTunes (even without the Music Store) and iPods. Library sharing in iTunes 4 is a very very cool feature and it is so beautifully seamless. I've noticed that some songs sound much better in this version of iTunes. In iTunes 3 it seemed that on some tracks the vocals were very quiet, despite relentless adjustment of the equalizer.
I think I'm going to buy an iPod. The new ones look really sexy and I kind of like the new button layout. I was originally thinking about getting the 10GB 'pod, but when I priced it on the Apple store with the case, iPod dock and remote it ended up being more expensive than the 15GB model with all those things bundled.
Well, thats all for me for now. It's time to do more homework.
