When Apple announced its new Ping service on Wednesday, I was ecstatic. Most people use Myspace to find and share music, but I didn’t like Myspace at all. In fact I don’t even have a Myspace account. Integrating iTunes with a music-based social media network felt like two things that went well together – like chocolate and peanut butter.
It’s that time of year-the leaves turn color, sports bars start to fill up again, and Apple announced a media event. As always, there’s speculation about new iPods and what may come of the iPad, but I’m more interested in one thing: iTunes. Ever since Apple bought Lala early this year, I’ve been eagerly awaiting to see what Apple did with the technology.
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Computers weren’t very exciting in 1984. Their graphics were blocky and didn’t have many colors, there wasn’t much of a user interface unless you liked staring at a blinking cursor, and sound was tinny 8-bit. While watching the Super Bowl that year, some people caught a glimpse of a 30-second commercial for what seemed to be….a new movie? A TV show? No, it was Apple’s first commercial for the Macintosh.
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After a few random formalities about the white iPhone 4 (and the top 10 reasons you don’t need it) and other bits, we discuss random . Is random really random and what do chaos, infinity, entropy, and lava lamps have to do with it?
Why not have a completely random and unplanned show? That’s exactly what episode 35 turned out to be: Without show notes we talked about random topics from Tron, video game nostalgia, social media hype, road trips, iPhone apps… and even the meaning of life.
