iPhone Research Results

Jim Dalrymple over at MacWorld News has just published an interesting piece about the iPhone which sort of confirms my belief that that appeal of the iPhone will be broad. Some especially significant nuggets of info:

The research data shows that 31 percent of 15-24 year olds; 32 percent of 25-34 year olds; and 31 percent of 35-49 year olds are interested in purchasing the iPhone. The over 50 crowd checked in with 6 percent interest in purchasing the device.

So no real age barriers then?

According to the research, 48 percent of people that will buy an iPhone currently do not own an iPod.

Wow! Nearly half of potential iPhone buyers don't have an iPod! So much for the iPhone smashing iPod sales. iPhone will open up another huge market not to replace the iPod but to make it available to others who might not ever have purchased an iPod. Phenomenal!

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I'm All Over The Place....

Sometimes you can have just too much choice! Following my last post, Camino have released v1.5 which now seems to play nicely with Google Reader - hurrah! Then, NetNewsWire goes and releases v3.0. As I mentioned previously, I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds but I did use NNW prior to that and paid for a full licence. Thought I'd give the new version of NNW a spin seeing as I paid for it ;) I have to admit, I'm starting to like it again! I seem to be able to read the posts much more quickly than with google reader? I exported all my subscriptions from GR via OPML and imported them into NNW - There were some duplications due to the groups I've setup in GR but all seemed to work fine. I'll leave it for a couple more days but it looks like NNW might just win out in the end.

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YouTube and Apple TV - Part 3

This is turning out to be an even bigger deal than I first touted!

In March, UK broadcaster the BBC agreed a deal with YouTube that will see short news and entertainment clips made available through the service. EMI yesterday also agreed a deal with YouTube that will allow its users to access videos by EMI artists - all four major labels have now reached such deals with the service.

Via MacWorld UK

Talk about a trojan horse! Apple doesn't need to develop its own content delivery network, it just plugs Apple TV into YouTube then waits for all the content creators to sign deals to distribute content via YouTube.

YouTube: According to Moody, the YouTube update will take place in stages, beginning with the free software update for Apple TV owners in mid-June. At launch, “thousands of videos designed for Apple TV” will be available, with additional thousands added weekly until the entire YouTube library becomes accessible to Apple TV users this fall. When asked what “designed for Apple TV” meant, Moody said that YouTube will soon be encoding videos in the H.264 streaming-efficient compression format preferred by Apple TV, and that all new videos submitted to YouTube as of the mid-June launch of the AppleTV update will be playable by the device. From then until fall, YouTube will be encoding its entire back-catalog in H.264 format, adding videos in chunks until everything is accessible to Apple TV users. Direct links and the on-screen keyboard-based search engine mentioned in our previous update will bring you to current and old videos alike.

via iLounge

So the biggest video download service on the planet is going with H.264, the preferred video codec for Apple TV! Good grief! So Apples preferred codec becomes a defacto standard (OK so it's a standard already but you know what I mean!) and YouTube gets a serious quality speed bump? Does this mean higher resolutions will be available for YouTube? Do they still have the original content that can be re-encoded at higher resolutions? Will they have the option to upload high resolution material mid June? A hobby? Classic Jobs :-)

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Firefox First Impressions

Seems to be behaving itself! I do like the themes and using the macfox II graphite theme (see icon) gives firefox some Aqua-style goodness which makes it so much nicer on the mac! When I've finished this weeks show, installed Final Cut Studio 2, edited a video project for my daughters dance class and launched Podcast-Monteizer, I might just have a further play with it!

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Pick a browser, any browser....

Here we go again! My favourite browser on the mac is Camino, I don't really know why, I just like it. However, I use Google Reader as my main RSS reader but for some reason, it won't play nicely with Camino :-( So I've gone back to Safari and it's OK. Now I find that Google have released Google Gears, some new fangled code that allows you to use your web based Google Reader offline - how cool is that! Of course, it doesn't work with either Safari or Camino! I imagine that Google will eventually extend the usage of Google Gears to all of its online applications so it's a fairly significant release and as I'm a big Google Apps fan, I've just got to install it! OK, So I've just downloaded the latest version of FireFox (which is supported) and I'll see how long I can use that before switching to another browser!

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