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- Video of Super Mario Bros. Running on AppleTV
Dig it. Within six months, the Wii and the AppleTV will be one device. Via Gizmodo. Technorati Tags: apple, appleTV, software...
Dig it. Within six months, the Wii and the AppleTV will be one device.Via Gizmodo.
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Pete Mortensen - RSS Reader for AppleTV in Beta -- Video Support Coming
AppleTV just got one step closer to being a full-fledged replacement for a stand-alone Web-browsing device thanks to AppleTV RSS Plugin from twenty08 software. The fun little app adds a new channel to Apple's hackable box, and then you can...
AppleTV just got one step closer to being a full-fledged replacement for a stand-alone Web-browsing device thanks to AppleTV RSS Plugin from twenty08 software. The fun little app adds a new channel to Apple's hackable box, and then you can make it display your favorite RSS feed. <cough>US, for example.</cough>
The little application will soon support ATOM feeds and video RSS. Can't wait. This is all nice, but it still can't compete with what's officially supported on the Nintendo Wii, which has a headline news reader, weather and even a complete browser. Isn't that crazy?
Via Digg.
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Pete Mortensen - Michigan Democrats Look to iPods As Learning Tools. It's Not What You Think.
Lawmakers are out of touch and corrupt. Democrats in my home state, Michigan, appear to have reinforced this image by proposing $38 million be spent on iPods for every student in the public schools to use as learning tools. As...Lawmakers are out of touch and corrupt. Democrats in my home state, Michigan, appear to have reinforced this image by proposing $38 million be spent on iPods for every student in the public schools to use as learning tools.
As you might expect, this proposal has drawn guffaws and outrage from armchair analysts across the land. Newspapers and bloggers alike have gone out of their way to highlight the spending bill as reflecting a worldview that can't fix things. Don't believe it. This story has a lot more to it than iPods. At the heart of the matter is a state that seems dead set on dying. Read on to learn what you aren't hearing.
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The coverage of this story generally leaves out this simple fact: The Republicans control Michigan's legislature. Or that the only reason the Michigan government is facing an astounding budget crisis is that the ruling Republican legislators have repealed the state's single-business tax -- or as they called it, the "Small Business Tax." As of the end of the year, the state loses $1.9 billion with the end of the tax. All of which was a deliberate move to force the Democrats into aggressive spending cuts. This "irresponsible" bill by the Democrats is just a sad response to the plan for more cuts that the Republicans will bring out in the next few days.
Do they really expect to give iPods to kids across the state? Of course not. They're just trying to articulate a vision where Michigan invests in capital infrastructure instead of ending tax after tax while the unemployment rate goes higher. And this particular bill doesn't succeed in that regard -- it makes Democrats look more like the party of no ideas than ever. But there was no way it would have succeeded in the first place. That was never the point.
Ironically, the only reason the state would be making a proposal for technology in the schools in the first place is that Gov. John Engler revamped the state school system to remove local control in the early 1990s. It's a matter of scale. One school that wants to buy a set of 30 iPods to use as a classroom set looks visionary. A state looking to buy a few million makes it look like the inmates are running the asylum.
Via CNET.
Pete Mortensen - iPhone Might Eat Into iPod Sales? You're Kidding Me!
We're entering a new phase of iPhone speculation. Last fall was Phase I: Ludicrous predictions from people who have never seen one. January until now has been Phase II: Potshots and Idol Worship. And now on to Phase III: Summaries...
We're entering a new phase of iPhone speculation. Last fall was Phase I: Ludicrous predictions from people who have never seen one. January until now has been Phase II: Potshots and Idol Worship. And now on to Phase III: Summaries of the obvious.
I submit as the beachhead indicator of Phase III these comments from UBS Specialist Tony Andersson, who concludes that, brace yourself, iPhone sales could have a negative impact on iPod sales. Phew! Are you breathing again yet?
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I mean, who could envision a device that Apple CEO Steve Jobs described as a combination of a widescreen iPod, a breakthrough cell-phone and a revolutionary Internet browser would sell where before an iPod would have sufficed?
Certainly not anyone paying attention. But then, that's why they pay bank analysts the big bucks. Remember this one thing: Apple places big bets to win (and sometimes loses), but they also had to bring out the iPhone as the multimedia phone market grows more sophisticated. Those things threaten the iPod, and Apple took a pre-emptive step to stem the tide. Period.
AppleInsider | Report: iPhone could make or break Apple's bank:
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