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Congratulations Brent and Sheila!

Of course, this entry was posted using MarsEdit 1.0. :-)

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TheMacMind had a page up yesterday with rumoured pictures of the next iPod, the flash-based super-mini iPod. It's a tiny little thing you'd wear around your neck.

First thought was, hey that's what I had predicted a couple of months ago! D'oh, I did, to a friend of mine, but not here. Oh well. :-) I figured this would be the next design when I saw the tiny MP3 player a Taiwanese friend of mine brought home from Vancouver one weekend. It was a wear-around-the-neck design, but really quite ugly. It was shiny metal, boxy with "sharp" corners, and an unusable little LCD display. I thought to myself, Apple could do that, properly.

At UVic I see lots of kids walking around with little MP3 players on their necks, so clearly it's a desirable thing for young people. I think it identifies a person with music, which they hope would make you think they were hip. :-)

The design shown makes a lot of sense. No LCD. Gasp! Not really. The walkman had no screen and it did just fine. The device was rumoured to have Bluetooth connectivity so you could actually browse your player with your phone. That also makes a lot of sense... now that I've played with Salling Clicker I see how attractive that is... less bulky things to carry around... everything is big because everything needs a screen! The UI is simple and functional. I would not be surprised at all if those pics were the real deal.

And if it really was only $99, they would fly off the shelves. I wish I could afford to buy some AAPL. :-) With that rumour, new PowerBook rumours, IBM rumours, it should be quite a Macworld SF next month!

PS: It appears TheMacMind site is down. Apple Legal?

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CNN.com: Company lets U.S. travelers 'Go Canadian'

In the words of Bon Jovi... "You give love... a bad name!"

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The Register: Apple of IBM's eye?: "Instead, an even better and more audacious speculation is that once publicly free of the PC division IBM will either buy, or form a close joint venture with Apple to sell its PCs, which coincidentally are now built around IBM's PowerPC chip."

Oooh, Apple computers with IBM credibility and support. Nice!

Update: BTW, I think it's more likely that IBM would buy just Apple's PC business, and not Apple itself. Apple would split into two companies, Apple Computer Inc. and iTunes Inc., the former of which would go to IBM, the latter to Steve Jobs, Rubenstein and co. That might help them in the Apple Corps suit as well. I think they've been wanting to spin off the iPod and then IPO it for a while... it could attract a lot of investor attention.

The other option is IBM might license the Mac and Mac OS X from Apple. Not sure what happens to the Xserve and Xsan in this case.

Seth said IBM is too deep into Linux. They are, but they spin it as being deep into open source... and really it's deep into not-Windows. The Mac is not-Windows, and it runs on their chips. And I think IBM realizes they have a good thing with their Power6 architecture and want to take full advantage of it.

Then again, that rumour could be total bunk. Either way, it's interesting to ponder IBM's role in the Mac world.

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