Challenging the iPod
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Enter practically any electronics store and you&#39;re likely to find a digital music player from Apple. It&#39;s called the iPod and it weighs only a few ounces, but to its competitors it&#39;s the 800-pound white gorilla.
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Taking us through the highlights of each of the new iPods, David Pogue (New York Times) anoints them âthe best players you can buy.â iPod touch, for example, offers âthe iPhoneâs spectacular widescreen video playback, wireless Wi-Fi Internet features and its now-famous two-finger touchscreen operating system.â And wireless access to iTunes:  âYou can browse or search the catalog, listen to 30-second samples, buy songs for $1 eachâand download them directly to the iPod.â These iPods, Pogue says, âare nearly impossible to beat; there are other 160-gigabyte multimedia players, for example, but theyâre much bigger and more expensive than the iPod classic. And if you do value things like beauty, software elegance and trouble-free computer integrationâwell, good luck resisting that new Nano.â
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Is the iPod more essential than the paper clip? And is the venerable No. 2 pencil obsolete or worthy of a career award?
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Apple Computer is eyeing a technology that could make the iPod more likely to survive a fall. The company has applied for a patent on technology that would allow a portable media player to detect when it is
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Faced with developing serious competition to the powerhouse that is Apple&#39;s iPod, Creative&#39;s Zen Touch Player takes aim at several of the iPod&#39;s features and frailties.
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You&#39;re probably already familiar with one of the most common questions we hear at iPodlounge: &quot;how can I load my iPod up with free music?
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Are the devices in this picture interesting enough to make you buy a Zune instead of an iPod?
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Sometimes the songs are all wrong. Like, you're shopping for genitalia in Second Life when your earbuds remind you that it's just "Too Little Too Late." The solution: Pack your iPod with tunes that complement the things you do all day long.
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Juliana Sasaki didnât bother checking out Sonyâs digital music player before buying her green iPod mini. &quot;I knew Sony and other companies had MP3 players, but they canât beat the mini,&quot; says Sasaki, 23, a language teacher.
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This week's column is a collection of odds and ends from a tech reporter's inbox. Let's start with the odd: EVERYTHING iPOD: The iPod continues to push our culture forward in significant ways. No longer is bringing reading material to the bathroom enough; now you can have a soundtrack.
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Sure, the soon-to-hit-the-shelves iPod Touch plays music and offers users a cool multitouch interface like its cousin, the iPhone. But it's the inclusion of Wi-Fi and Safari that makes it revolutionary, says Computerworld's Seth Weintraub.
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Ask iPod users what they like the most about the device, and most will probably mention the scroll wheel. MP3.com's Eliot Van Buskirk has the story behind it.
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Apple's iPod Touch uses advanced components that put it technologically beyond the iPhone.
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Game developers tasked with creating the first full-fledged games for the iPod faced the challenges of developing for a new platform while dealing with Apple&#8217;s desire to keep every detail closely under wraps. But it&#8217;s a challenge the game makers were unable to resist, given the popularity of Apple&#8217;s handheld music player.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The next wave of iPod competitors is  coming.
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That would be the iPod touch, according to Tim Gideon, whose Five (out of five) star review appears on pcmag.com.  The iPod touch âis a thing of beauty,â he says. âFactor in the slick interface, elegant Web browser, the beautiful glass display, the seamless integration of the WiFi music store, and the iPod touch is worth the price. No portable media player has ever done this much so easily, or looked so good doing it.â
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The iPod&#39;s importance to Apple, which has in the past been overshadowed by the likes of Microsoft and Dell in the desktop stakes, cannot be underestimated.