“Secrets” of the 4G iPod

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Last Update: Wednesday, August 4, 2004

Spy novels and other fiction aside, rarely will a cryptic phrase or sentence accurately foreshadow a big surprise to come....

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iPod Add-Ons & iPhone: What You Need to Know

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Saturday, June 30, 2007
Last Update: Saturday, June 30, 2007

The iPhone, Apple has said numerous times, is three products in one: a cell phone, an Internet device, and Apple’s best ever iPod. Except, as users are finding, it’s not exactly an iPod. Try to use it with one of the over three thousand iPod accessories out there and you’ll probably be...

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Hi-Fi, DRM-Free iTunes Audio: Our Thoughts, and Yours

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Monday, April 2, 2007
Last Update: Monday, April 2, 2007

This morning, Apple and major music label EMI announced that the iTunes Store will in May start to sell high-quality (256kbps), digital rights management (DRM)-less audio files from EMI’s catalog for $1.29 per track. These new “premium” music downloads will play on any...

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Editorial: Apple, Smugness, and You

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Last Update: Thursday, October 19, 2006

It’s a claim certain people have been making for a while: Apple as a company is too smug, and so are fans of Apple products. If you’re not familiar with the word already, to be “smug” is to have or show an excessive pride in oneself or one’s achievements...

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Microsoft’s Third Strike - Zune Hyped, Lessons Learned

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Last Update: Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Over the last six months, we’ve sat back and watched as Microsoft tried its best to build hype for Zune - a portable multimedia device touted variously as an “iPod killer,” a “first-generation” step for Microsoft into the digital media player market, and most amusingly...

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Colored iPod shuffles: iLounge Editors’ reactions

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Last Update: Tuesday, January 30, 2007

On January 30, 2007, Apple Inc. announced that the second-generation iPod shuffle - previously available only in silver aluminum - would be available immediately in four additional colors: pink, green, blue, and the all-new orange...

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3 Ways The Beatles May Change iPods and Apple

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Monday, February 5, 2007
Last Update: Monday, February 5, 2007

This morning, iPod and Mac maker Apple announced that it had reached a new agreement with The Beatles’ record label Apple Corps regarding use of the “Apple” trademark, substantially revising a fifteen-year-old legal settlement that in 2003 landed the companies in court, and seemingly precluded The Beatles’ catalog from appearing on Apple’s iTunes Store. While most of the terms of the new agreement were not disclosed in a short statement from the two companies, one major change was announced: Apple now owns “all of the trademarks related to ‘Apple’ and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use.” What will this likely mean for Apple and the iPod going forward?

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Will Apple TV Succeed? Our Views, Your Views

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Last Update: Thursday, March 1, 2007

When Apple announced Apple TV (formerly iTV) last September - a metal and plastic, Mac mini-styled device capable of displaying a computer’s iTunes video, photo, and audio content on a television set - people were initially confused. “Why would anyone pay $299 for the video equivalent of a $129 AirPort Express mini-router?”, asked some. Others wondered whether such a device was even globally viable given the state of iTunes video downloads...

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Can Apple Keep Stalling a 6G iPod? Our Views, and Yours

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Last Update: Wednesday, March 7, 2007

To placate the masses of people hungry for a “video iPod,” Apple released the fifth-generation iPod in October 2005, then modestly refreshed it in September of 2006. Though its battery life for video playback has improved, users have never been fully satisfied with the squint-inducing size of its screen - a factor that led Apple to announce a larger, “widescreen iPod” feature for its upcoming iPhone. But as a consequence of iPhone’s introduction, many believe that Apple will wait until after the iPhone’s June launch to announce a standalone iPod with a similar screen.

Is Apple’s iPhone Still Exciting? Our Views, and Yours

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Friday, March 2, 2007
Last Update: Friday, March 2, 2007

Announced to rapturous applause in January, Apple’s “revolutionary” iPhone - a hybrid iPod, cell phone, and portable Internet device - has since been the subject of endless discussions, with everyone from average users to analysts and critics weighing in on its potential for success or failure. With roughly three months remaining before the device’s launch, iLounge’s editors were given a set of several questions: how do you feel today about iPhone? Have your feelings changed, positively or negatively, since the announcement? Will you buy one?

Below, you’ll find our answers to these questions, and more. Please add your thoughts to the comments section at the bottom of the page.

Editorial: Apple, Smugness, and You

By Jeremy Horwitz
Editor-in-Chief, iLounge
Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006
Last Update: Thursday, October 19, 2006

It’s a claim certain people have been making for a while: Apple as a company is too smug, and so are fans of Apple products. If you’re not familiar with the word already, to be “smug” is to have or show an excessive pride in oneself or one’s achievements...

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