I have a $50 gift card for iTunes that I won at work. Great, right? And there's this new album I really want, which they have on iTunes.

Here's the thing -- iTunes has lost *all* my music-buying business to AmazonMP3. Yes, I hate DRM, but also AmazonMP3 is almost always at least $1 cheaper and has higher-quality tracks to boot ( Read more... )

Once again, Gruber calls it like it is:

The simple truth is that the iPhone user experience doesn’t just blow away the experience of other companies’ cell phones - it blows away the experience of Apple’s own iPods. The biggest question, as I see it, is whether Apple plans to introduce iPods that are more or less just the iPod app from the iPhone ( ( Read more... )