Todd Mundt

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Getting the Apple Store Credit took about 4 minutes: enter phone number and serial number; wait for text message; enter code from text message; print web page. Figuring out what to do with the $100 will take much longer. I’m all set in the iPod department these days, even though the fat Nanos are so [...]

Excellent piece from Dennis Haarsager, well worth excerpting:
No doubt about it, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch continue that company’s record of high class industrial design.  But if Steve Jobs’s taste and focus make for great-looking consumer products, his tightly-integrated hardware/DRM/software business model is more a throwback to the great (and sometimes unfairly labeled) “robber baron” [...]

I waited until 7pm before driving to the Apple Store last night. It was busy - customers, mainly gawking and Apple Store employees at the door, greeting passersby and offering the opportunity to try the iPhone.
I poked and prodded one of the units, but in some ways, the first moments of touching it were almost [...]

Since I referenced Omar Shahine’s iPod envy a few days ago, I thought I’d also note his announcement that he’s now the proud owner of an iPod Nano.
I won’t bother to reproduce his comments here, but you should read his observations about “The iPod Experience” and his thoughts about its success. Notable also is his [...]

After searching for an mp3 player that’s better than the iPod, Microsoft blogger Omar Shahine says “Game over.”
I’m beginning to change my mind about things. Even though we have a great eco system for music stores etc, the reality is that our OEM partners are never ever going to create a product like the iPod. [...]

David Pogue on the new Z5, Samsung’s Nano-like music player:
…while the Z5 can’t play songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store, it can play songs from Rhapsody, Napster, Musicmatch, MSN Music, Wal-Mart, AOL Music Now, Yahoo Music and other members of the “MMS-MMS” consortium (Microsoft-based Music Stores with Minuscule Market Share).
Circuits, NYT March 9