iPod Shuffle, Mac mini draw crowds at Apple Stores
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MacCentral - The word of the day at Apple retail outlets in California was "Shuffle." Approximately 80 or so eager customers stood in line outside the downtown San Francisco Apple Store and 200 lined the halls of South Coast Plaza, waiting to be among the first to get their hands on the new Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, and the iLife and iWork software suites from Apple.
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Apple is cutting the price of its one-gigabyte iPod Shuffle, from $69 to $49, and announced that a two-gigabyte version will be available later this month for $69. "At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of worldwide iPod product marketing. "The new 2GB model lets music lovers bring even more songs everywhere they go in the impossibly small iPod shuffle."
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&#147;I&#146;ve been testing the new iPod Shuffle for a couple of days,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal, &#147;and, in my tests, it fulfilled &#151; and even exceeded &#151; Apple&#146;s claims for convenience, battery life and song capacity. Sound quality is so good you can barely believe the music is coming from something so small.&#148; [Jan 12, 2005]
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Summer heat turns gadget makers' minds  to winter's chilly days, when shoppers buy millions of iPods  and sleek TVs, but consumers may be lukewarm to this year's  newest crop of gizmos.
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At least a dozen portable music players are angling to steal sales away from Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular line of iPods this holiday season. In the past month alone, five companies have unveiled their iPod challengers - pocket-sized players with hard disks that can store anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 songs.
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Apple's 1GB iPod Shuffle is getting a price cut, plus a 2GB sibling that ships this month.
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Owners of Apple Inc.&#39;s   iPod love to trick out the music players with cases, speakers  and other accessories and its upcoming wireless iPhone promises  to be no different.
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Thousands of Mac enthusiasts gathered Tuesday to see what Apple Computer Inc.'s Steve Jobs will unveil next to keep his company on its recent roll.
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MacCentral - At a private viewing in Palo Alto, Calif., Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday unveiled its new "mini" retail store design. The new stores will be opening this Saturday at 10 a.m. in Palo Alto, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Rosa, CA; Tukwila, WA; Bridgewater, NJ; and Rockaway, NJ.
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Hoping to continue the success of its entry-level iPod Shuffle player, Apple on Tuesday introduced four colored versions of its popular music device that would sell alongside the original silver version.
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SAN JOSE - Apple Computer has introduced its new iPod that allows users to view and share photos. At the same time it has opened nine new iTunes music stores in Europe, spurring its rivalry with Microsoft and others.
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Apple Computer Inc.  on  Tuesday unveiled a number of new iPods, including one with the  most capacity to date, and said new versions of the popular  digital music players would sport video games such as Pac-Man  and Tetris.
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A fashion-forward Apple store in New York is a mob scene, of course--but that was because of tourists, not Apple fans anticipating the operating-system launch.
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By Mike Himowitz, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 21--In just eight days, armies of breathless Apple fanatics will queue up at company stores around the nation, their pockets heavy with cash and plastic.
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To nurture a community vibe at its retail stores, Apple Computer encourages customers to hang out and play around with the equipment.
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Blog: People walk in and out of the Apple store in a neat single file as employees cheer. Meanwhile, the paparazzi goes nuts.
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Hello, kitty! When Mac OS X 10.5 launched at the Fifth Avenue flagship store, it was pouring rain--but that didn't stop fans from waiting in line for a few hours to get it.