iPod flash will have a screen?

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Think Secret already had a pretty tight track record for accuracy when it came to Apple rumors, but getting sued by Steve Jobs and co. over a couple of product leaks just gave them some massive street cred, which is why we’re inclined to think they’re on to something when they dish out some serious dirt about the supposed flash-based iPod that’s going to be announced next week. There was already a first edition of the rumor that claimed that the iPod flash would come without a display, but Think Secret is pretty dang sure that the flash-based iPod Apple will introduce at MacWorld won’t have a ClickWheel but will come with a small LCD screen that’s two lines shorter than the one found in the iPod mini and will come in a both 1GB version that will sell for $149 and a 2GB version that will sell for $199.

Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget

iTunes User Sues Apple For Only Letting Music Play On The iPod

Oh Brother…what next!!!!

Well, this should be interesting. An “unhappy” iTunes user is now suing Apple for antitrust violations, claiming that they broke antitrust laws by only allowing their music to play on iPods — blocking out other music players from the market. It’s unlikely that he’ll win the lawsuit, and honestly, it sounds more like a setup by an Apple competitor than just some individual who feels wronged. The guy in question says he was “forced” to buy an iPod in order to make use of the music he bought on iTunes, but the courts will likely point out that he could have gone to a competing online music store. Of course, what this really highlights is how some of these copy protection issues are building fragmented worlds. How would people react if the CDs they bought at Tower Records could only play on Tower-branded radios? Thanks to the way the industry views intellectual property online, the end result is a lot of competing separate worlds, which actively discourages use.

Originally from Techdirt

WarTuning

This idea just came to me in a flash. If you’ve seen this idea elsewhere, let me know because I haven’t yet.

WarTuning: Wardrive using your WiFi enabled laptop to listen to (download?) other people’s shared music through iTunes.

If you’re feeling especially delinquent, you can download songs from iTunes libraries that you find using ourTunes (this is definitely illegal, so don’t do it).

WarTuning here in LA might be fun. I wonder what the stars in Hollywood are listening to?

Hopefully, we’ll be demonstrating this on The Screen Savers on the 19th of January.

Look who’s sharing music at G4

Originally from plastic bugs