It's a difficult decision. Microsoft took the opposite road.
Not for me:
my collection fits into my 16GB drive
Only have one mac
New music I buy is from iTunes.
It probably makes sense if you have a huge collection and want all your music available in the fly; if you have more than one mac and need all of them synced; if you buy music from amazon and such, but even then if it's only one phone...; if you want to legalise everything; if you want to upgrade your music bit rate; if you want a backup.
I noticed that even though the average price of apps is pretty low, many apps that used to be free are now £1 or £2.
When you need something do you go to the store first instead of google?
It is Apple's plan to have 100% of the apps there. We used to say that that would never happen because of apps that are too deeply integrated with the OS. But it seems like the OS itself will not support them.
This is a truck. Please do not turn it into a van.
£743 with Phone
£660 without. Now this last one includes insurance, but not covering everything, because they say in small print: " if you don't return it in satisfactory condition at the end of your lease, you may have to pay substantial charges"
Why would you do this? I suppose if money was no issue, and you can't be bothered to put your phone on ebay for an extra £350.
Honestly, you got to be pretty rich to spend 6 houses worth in a piece of paper!
I can't see them making something as good (hardware wise) for the same or lower price. And Apple is making it harder with further investment in memory, chips ad battery technology.
Even if they do, a Mac will always be a mac, and a PC a PC.
There is a big worry regarding data caps.
TV
Watching 30 minutes of video may consume between 25MB and 112MB of data depending on your available connection speed.
Watching 60 minutes of video may consume between 50MB and 225MB of data depending on your available connection speed.
Radio
Listening to 30 minutes of radio may consume up to 30MB of data.
Listening to 60 minutes of Radio may consume up to 60MB of data.
Mention the forum post and the new app.
Legal Fights
Good move actually and I agree with them. Unfortunatly, not matter how much you advertise a poor product, it's not gonna fair well.
Gossip Land
I don't see Apple as a company who goes out of their way and create a new ramification of products just to respond to a competitor. Do you?
If anything, Steve might have been against this idea and that now Tim can go ahead with it. But then again...it would spoil apps. I don't see it.
does Apple need to change the iPad exterior to sell? I think 2012 will be a fresh year for Apple.
Updates
such as iPhone10,1 and iPod11,1
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