After singing about Apple recently (before new products were released this week and after), I've just looked at the new iPod Touch, (updates announced this week), right, the latest version of the iPod, Apple's product introduced in 2001. Over 119 million people have used an iPod as of last fall. This tech leap for the new version is huge, using a multi-touch interface with the "revolutionary technology that made iPhone a hit" and allowing users to get mail, maps and check weather and stocks and browse the web, putting internet in your pocket for $299 for 8GB or $399 for 16GB.
I enjoy the thoughts of Nicholas Carr (his blog, Rough Type, is good) and his writings explain the idea of the future of cloud computing better than anyone. His articles, linked together, give insight as to where we are headed and why Apple and Google are at the head of our tech revolution that is causing disruption. Carr's Google, Apple and "cloud computing" explains that: "Apple is taking responsibility for "the user interface and people," developing the design for the front end of the integrated network-computing system that accesses the web while Google provides "the perfect back end - the supercomputer that provides the bulk of the data-processing might and storage capacity for the devices."
I wrote that Apple is designing ahead of the market and Carr caught Apple's patent application and wonders if it is a cloud computer docking station. Carr on Apple's direction to have computers be a portal to the web -- the way to hook to the internet and move away from working with and maintaining our data on our own computers, with more explanation here.
It is too bad that Santa Fe doesn't have an Apple Store. Had this product come out before Christmas, it would have been a Santa gift for all of my children and they would have been happy happy. Today I showed this to my son - he knew it already by name - and he immediately asked for it for his upcoming birthday. He said it did come out before Christmas. It came out in September. I guess being in Santa Fe puts me a little in the dark ages. Had I been in NYC, I would have seen it in the Apple store. Back in '02 when iPods were first released, you could have purchased Apple stock for way under $25/share. In the last year the stock has gone from $82 to a high as $202. Today the stock is hovering just above $160. As I say, MMMMM. I love Apple. Enough, already.
Related:
The iPhone and Pop Icons
The Architecture of the Apple
Apple Creatively Soldiers On
Mac & Apple: Innovating Beyond the Market Today
Apple Creatively Soldiers On
Yum. I got one for Christmas. I do rather like it. The touch interface is cool.
Posted by: magpie | January 17, 2008 at 01:30 PM
Forget the iPod Touch...How bout that new Mac Book AIR??!!
Posted by: M.E. | January 17, 2008 at 04:50 PM