January 06, 2004
MacWorld announcements
Highlights from Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote:
iPod
- currently #1 worldwide in both unit sales and market share
- has 31% of market share worldwide for all MP3 players
- new 1,000 song iPod mini will sell for $249
iLife '04
- new version includes updates to iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD
- new pro music tool called GarageBand will debut in iLife '04
- retail price: $49 (free with all new Macs)
iTunes Music Store
- no international stores yet - sorry Canada!
- 30 million songs sold as of December 31, 2003
- thousands of new classical selections now available
- monthly sales nearing 1.9 million target
- 500,000 songs now available
- Billboard Hot 100 music charts added (1946 to present)
other news
- new version of Final Cut Express announced
- Xserve and Xserve RAID updated to G5 processor
- surprise demo of a new version of Microsoft Office
- Office 2004 will be available in Spring 2004
More later. I have a date with the folks from CryptoCard.
Posted by Sandy at 11:30 AM
Who needs Xserve? Go get a Dell rackserver and run Linux or FreeBSD on it.
Apple does not compete in this space. I was much more impressed with iLife, FinalCut Express 2, and GarageBand. Those go for the jugular.
Posted by stoddart on January 7, 2004 06:24 PM | Permalink to Comment
Have to say I'm pretty surprised at that price point for the iPod mini - color's nice but for just $50 more one could get a much more powerful device. Any pushback on this?
Posted by Hylton on January 6, 2004 07:36 PM | Permalink to Comment