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No iPad For Me (For Now)
Feb 2nd
It’s been a hot minute since the iPad was announced. I’ve given the device some thought, and I’ve come to a choice: I don’t want one. At least, I don’t want one yet. Truth be told, yes, it’s a neat little device. Yes, I could use it to read books, listen to music, watch movies and the like. Unfortunately, there are a few things wrong with the device, that prevents me from wanting to go out and splurge on it. Let me explain further. More >
Who Wants Mobile TV?!
May 14th
I read THIS little gem on MSNBC this morning. Basically, it asks if people are truly ready for TV on their portable devices yet? I’m thinking yes, but not the way it’s currently being offered. I think the closest company that I would really start buying episodes from would be Apple, who offers individual shows for about $2 a pop. (With some network shows going a dollar or two more.) Still, that’s kind of expensive, isn’t it? Considering that you can get the entire season for about the same price, better quality, I’d rather get the DVD set and rip it on my own, without any DRM restrictions. In other words, it’s the restrictions of what you can do with the shows that turns me off buying them in their current form.
It’s kind of the same with other media. For example, Apple and many other carriers charge you twice for music in some cases. Once to listen to it as an MP3, and charged again for the ‘privalage’ to use it as a ringtone for you phone. A lot of times for phone carriers, the music you buy for your phone is often tied to the carrier, limiting how you may port that music to use on another device. Consumers are being punished left and right, while being charged up the ass for content they want. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, especially with TV shows, since they are offered free anyways.
As a consumer, I’d love to have a device that I can watch TV shows on. It would be great for those times when I have literally nothing else to do. Yet, I don’t want the restrictions and degradations that often come with current offerings. Networks and device makers are going to have to realize this, or websites like YouTube will only get more popular, because they are freely available, and free of limitations.
2nd Generation Zunes Arive, But Will Anyone Care?
Oct 3rd
It’s Here (Again)
Today Microsoft released their second generation of Zunes, and although there may be a lot of buzz for the devices, I imagine it will be like the last time, and die down fairly quickly. At first glance, it looks like they are at least a little more pleasing to the eyes, but I’m wondering if anything else has been improved on it? The first Zune looked like a colored brick with a screen, the software to manage the device was awful, and trying to use the actual software on the Zune wasn’t as easy as it should have been.
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