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Kim Cattrall shows off the original 80's iPod

May 27, 2010

While the Sex and the Metropolis TV series was something I watched more than once, I only gave the Sex and the City movie one viewing because I felt like somehow, something went terribly diabolical. The movie was depressing to me, and the strong women I remembered from the series were all shadows of their once glorious selves. All of the gorgeous mania and jewelry in the world (and the 6 billion product placements) couldn’t make up for that. And I’ve already heard many very barren reviews of the SATC 2 movie. And that’s really too bad, because I thought that this would be a way to redeem the SATC name.

Sarah Jessica Parker was called Sexylicious by which SATC 2 cardinal man?

The premiere of SATC 2 was at the Radio City Music Hall. Cattrall says it was so great to open it there, and to stand all of the support that they did. Kim Cattrall mentioned as a joke that when SATC was on TV during the years it was off HBO,  “I think my part was mostly cut out” since the Samantha scenes were always so iniquitous. The point is, the viewership for the show rose even as the show was off the air.

Source: Small Screen Scoop

Apple Music Event 2001-The First Ever iPod Introduction

Here we see Steve Jobs introducing the very first iPod at a low key result in 2001. The rest is history.

As Apple Predicted, iPod Sales Sliding


Apple launched the iPod almost eight years ago, and in that at intervals has never seen a quarterly drop in sales of the diminutive pocket music player. It’s a product line that has so far generated over $38 billion on sales of 218 million units. None too odious, eh?

Arik Hesseldahl, in an article in yesterday’s BusinessWeek, reports that Apple’s sales of 10.2 million iPods in the three months ending July 21 were down from 11 million in the same habitation last year. But it’s not an unexpected decline. Even without the economic downturn, Apple knew the day would come when market saturation meant a dip in sales. Hesseldahl says:

“Foreboding of the drop-off is ‘one of the original reasons’ Apple developed the iPhone and the Wi-Fi-enabled iPod touch…Apple is microwave-ready for lower sales of what it calls ‘pocket products’ the iPod shuffle, nano and classic.”


Hesseldahl posits that Apple will party its focus on to the iPod touch line, as future iterations of the iPod family will derive from that device’s advanced features. He suggests Apple will readily at some time drop the iPod Classic’s reliance on hard disc drive-based storage, moving instead to Blaze storage. Certainly that makes sense, given the functional advantages NAND storage has over spinning entrancing discs — not to mention Apple’s frankly gargantuan orders for flash memory chips (orders that seem to get ever higher year over year.)

Much of the ease of Hesseldahl’s article is a mix between idle conjecture about, and a wish list for, future generations of the touch.

They’re decent suggestions, to be indubitable; a 5- or 6-megapixel camera; built-in microphone for Skype and other VoIP services; Mini-SD expansion seaport; and a GPS chipset for full, always-available personal navigation. (He makes the point that some products from Garmin and TomTom sell today for $100 below the assess of an entry-level iPod touch.)

Will Apple’s product roadmap for the iPod see an end to classic click-wheel designs? Quite. Apple’s experience and skills acquired from the iPhone, iPod touch, and very likely, upcoming Tablet device see it one of the world’s leading developers of touch-based consumer multimedia technology. It’s not hard to imagine an iPod Nano with an lock virtual click-wheel (or better) interface that gets out of the way when it’s not needed. Apple can do that now. Perhaps it’ll just wait to see if the sales on to slide before it releases such a device.

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