The Long Dark Tech-Time of the Soul

This is a technology focused blog that describes my trials and tribulations with techonlogy which, no matter what brave new world is promised to be just around the corner, nearly always fails to live up to expectations.

Friday, September 09, 2005

Bye bye iPod Mini, hello Nano

Driving to the coast today I spotted the billboard for the new iPod Nano. I just checked the specs for it just now and my conclusion is everyone who just bought an iPod Shuffle or Mini is probably hopping mad. But you know how those Apple people are - they are hopping all the way to the nearest Apple store to buy one. Yes, they just can't get enough.

The question is, what will come after the Nano? iPod Femto? I'm assuming they skipped the micro because of the Zen Micro but really they seem to have penciled themselves into a corner on the naming front now. Perhaps they'll explore the root Lacie took with their external drives - big, bigger, biggest - and use smaller, smaller, smallest?

Anyway, who cares what its called. I admit its a very sleek package, I'm sure they will fly off the shelves. Howewever until they open up their DRM or support a DRM with subscription based rights like Napster uses I'm afraid I wont be buying one.

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