ipod minority report

Five mobile trends to watch in 2008

News Where other devices had feared to tread - or merely gingerly dipped a toe - Apple planted itself, colossus-like, right in the centre of the mobile world: one foot in the iPod camp, the other reinterpreting the web for the small screen with... [09 Jan 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment A bold gamble given that the success of the iTunes Store and iPod sales was built on the closed platform. The lack of buttons and reliance on soft interface and gestures are revolutionary, but perhaps more impressive than that is the way the link... [21 Dec 2007]

Minority Report: Steve Jobs fails to wow

Comment Despite the hoopla over the iPhone and iPod, Apple struggles to drum up excitement over its core Mac hardware and OS X. Firstly, it will increase its brand awareness among Windows users - who may already be iTunes and iPod fans - and give them one... [15 Jun 2007]

Minority Report: Whither the Mac maker?

Comment The 'Get a Mac' and 'Switch' campaigns prove the company is committed to growing its minority share of the market and recent sales figures seem to support that. Doomsayers saw this as the beginning of the end for the company's traditional product... [03 May 2007]

Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?

Comment The 'open letter' was celebrated and criticised in equal measure, with cynics claiming music with DRM locks benefited Apple's business model by tying iTunes tracks to the company's iPod MP3 players. Not so, apparently.iPod faith [11 Apr 2007]

Stories of the month - February 2007

News Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple Minority Report: The 10 best things about Apple The iPhone and iPod made it onto both lists, with the latter criticised for its dodgy battery life and general lack of longevity. [28 Feb 2007]

Minority Report: The 10 best things about Apple

Comment If imitation is the highest form of flattery, it might suggest why Apple's brand is so highly regarded despite its minority position in the market. The iPod's clickwheel has been a massive factor in driving sales of the music player, allowing huge... [21 Feb 2007]

Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple

Comment The iPod Most of the silicon.com editorial team have got through at least one iPod each. A recent Greenpeace report rated it the worst offender on a list of PC companies including Dell, HP and Sony, saying: "Apple fails to embrace the precautionary... [05 Feb 2007]

Minority Report: Why I'm already dreaming of an iPhone

Comment In a 2006 column on the much-trumpeted and woefully inaccurate predictions of the 'death of the iPod', I said that one of the biggest challenges Apple faced in delivering a successful phone product to the market was interface design. [11 Jan 2007]

Mobile music to kill the MP3 player?

News All about the iPhone ¦ Minority Report: The death of the iPod (part 1) ¦ Minority Report: Will the iPhone save the iPod? MP3 players face an uncertain future as analysts predict music-enabled mobiles will outnumber standalone MP3 devices by... [08 Jan 2007]

Minority Report: How the Woz shaped Apple

Comment Probably more so than his namesake Steve Jobs, without him there would be no Apple, let alone the Macintosh, iMac or iPod. Though Apple's success has made Steve Jobs' name well-known in many a household, few know much about co-founder Steve Wozniak. [15 Dec 2006]

Apple denies iTunes sales slump

News All about the iPhone  Minority Report: The death of the iPod (part 1)  Minority Report: Will the iPhone save the iPod? The Forrester report said: "It is too soon to tell if this decline was seasonal or if buyers were reaching their... [13 Dec 2006]

iPhone to "muddle the handset market"

News All about the iPhone  Minority Report: The death of the iPod (part 1)  Minority Report: Will the iPhone save the iPod? Rumours are rife among Apple watchers about the next generation of iPod - a mobile phone/MP3 player hybrid dubbed... [21 Nov 2006]

Zune is compatible with Vista, says Microsoft

News silicon.com's Minority Report examines the future of the iPod - see part one and part two. Death of the iPod? A recent survey claimed half of iPod owners will ditch their Apple devices for a Zune when they next buy an MP3 player. [16 Nov 2006]

Microsoft pays Universal for 'iPod killer' sales

News Check out part one and part two of silicon.com's Minority Report on the fate of Apple's mighty MP3 player. The death of the iPod? Microsoft has agreed to pay Universal Music Group (UMG) a per-device royalty for each of the Redmond company's Zune... [10 Nov 2006]

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