I know that this is old, but I just found about this, so I’ll post it. It seems that Apple shipped a few Ipods with known viruses and then blamed it on microsoft, “we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses”. I have no clue why they are pissed at microsoft for something that is completely their fault, but you can view their “apology” page at http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/ , you will notice that they don’t even offer a virus remover and want users to buy 3rd party software.

Well the Zune wins again, a popular mac fanboy site called ”applematters” has written a article on why the zune kills the ipod. The post is at http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/why-the-zune-will-outdo-the-ipod-111/ , alot of the mac fanatics’ comments are funny.

Also some of the pages from the Zune 2.0 tech support traning manuel have been leaked, you can see them here.

Set to be released on November 13, the new 2nd generation Zunes (Zune 2) will have many new features. They are going to have remote live TV recording, podcasts, a new GUI(graphical user interface), wireless syncing, and a lot more.

Well normal one would expect Microsoft to not care about their old devices since they now have this new one, and they all ready have the old buyers money. You would expect them to do something a lot like apple did with the Iphone and the Ipod touch. “The iPod Touch is running the same OS as the iPhone, but it’s artificially gimped. There’s no email. There’s no weather or stocks. No notes. No adding events to the Calendar. When old hardware can’t support new features, that’s not anyone’s fault. But all this stuff that’s right there in the software and costs nothing for Apple to put in, and they leave it out to artificially differentiate the product line.” However unlike Apple, Microsoft is not only giving “the old 30GB getting the new Wi-Fi syncing, it’s getting the updated sharing features, the new codecs, the podcasts, and the new Windows Media Center TV on the go. It’s essentially the new Zune, except thicker and with less storage space…which makes us ask why Microsoft would be so generous as to kill half the reasons why you’d ever upgrade to a new Zune.”

 [more on gizmodo.com]

 

Aren’t you tired of your mobile communications device (aka. your cell phone) not containing enough Harry Potter? Well if you receive the new harry potter DVD which is set to be released on December 11 then you may be able to put the latest Harry Potter movie on your device.

According to Jim Wuthrich, Warner senior VP of digital distribution, people who get the new DVD will be able to “buy the DVD and have the option of the digital copy”. Apparently the DVD will have two files, one to play like a normal DVD and the other users will be able to copy to their ipods, cell phones, zunes, and other media devices. However “In all likelihood, Warner is using one of the Windows Media formats for the additional content. If that’s the case, the files won’t be playable on computers running Linux or Mac OS X,”. But at least it is a step in the right direction and hopefully the other movie companies will catch on.

[More on arstechnica.com]

Have you ever noticed that many of Apple’s ads seem way to cool to be made up by a corporate entity? Well so have the artists that Apple stole ideas from.

You can find more about this at: This Engadget Post