Summary of and Link to Apple's Announcement!

Authored by Jay Baage on September 12, 2006 - 6:11am.
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Short brief of announcements:

An improved video iPod with better, brighter screen, more features, 75% longer battery life (3.5 hours instread of 2) and new low price of 30 GB at $249 instead of $299. Also an 80 GB is now available for $349 with longer battery life. 

New generation small Nanos, 2GB for $149 up to 8GB for $249. Thinner aluminum case, 5 colors, 24h battery.

A second generation iPod Shuffle, claimed to be the smallest MP3 in the world.

Improved eraphones.

iTunes 7, with a new feature called cover flow view.

Games designed for the iPod wheel on sale at iTunes $4.99 each.
 
Movie deal with Disney. Adding 70 movies today on iTunes from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax. New movies will cost $12.99 and be released the same day as the DVD. Older movies will sell for $9.99.

Perhaps most notable new product is "iTV" - an Apple set-top box for the digital livingroom. It is a connection device that will let you put all your digital media; Music, TV, Movies, Podcasts and Pictures, from the computer and on to a big screen TV. You can also see it as a way to get videostreaming from the Internet straight to your TV. Coming in Q1 2007 and will be central in Apple's strategy for meeting the challenge from Microsoft Media Center. 

We did NOT see: a WiFi iPod or an iPhone cell phone from Apple.

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