Almost predictable, Apple. It's only a matter of time before every "i-product" is going to have all of the same abilities and the iphone, itouch, ipod, iwhatever will be one and the same (music, video-recording, camera, internet browsing, and other apps).
First there's the ipod which only plays music. Then the itouch, which plays your music and lets you add apps and browse the internet. There's the ipod nano, which lets you record video and listen to music, and the iphone which lets you browse internet, take pictures, record video, but not listen to all your music.
But this is extremely smart for Apple and I really think their marketing strategies are very smart- short and simple.
Apple's website writes:
"Video a-go-go.
iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It’s the video camera that’s small enough to take with you everywhere."
We are all journalists now. We are music junkies and tech-addicts. Myself included. It's just the way our generation is, and Apple is an enormous part of this. They have overwhelmingly dominated the music industry and they continue to do so with trendy new additions like the ipod that takes video as opposed to just plays it.
As for the music/recording industry, if they want to go big they will play along with Apple in any way they can. in 2009, The Dead released an app which included "... streaming audio from all the shows, video and photo blogs from rehearsals, backstage and concert footage, an interactive Photomosaic of The Dead 2009 tour logo made up of over 500 photographs of the band, news feed with live updates, set lists within seconds of a song being played from each concert, and an MP3 download consisting of two hours of live music from the tour." (I got this from a blog!)
We are all journalists now. We are music junkies and tech-addicts. Myself included. It's just the way our generation is, and Apple is an enormous part of this. They have overwhelmingly dominated the music industry and they continue to do so with trendy new additions like the ipod that takes video as opposed to just plays it.
As for the music/recording industry, if they want to go big they will play along with Apple in any way they can. in 2009, The Dead released an app which included "... streaming audio from all the shows, video and photo blogs from rehearsals, backstage and concert footage, an interactive Photomosaic of The Dead 2009 tour logo made up of over 500 photographs of the band, news feed with live updates, set lists within seconds of a song being played from each concert, and an MP3 download consisting of two hours of live music from the tour." (I got this from a blog!)
It's outrageous. =)
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