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I am *so* waiting to hear the justification for this

Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:12 am

Apple adds pedometer to iPod nano :lol:

If this is thinking differently then I'm just fine thinking the same. C'mon then fanboys. I wanna hear how this is game changing an' revolutionary an' so coooool an' stuff that I just don't get.

Honestly, even some bottom feeding Chinese sweat shop crap merchant would think twice about slapping on something like that onto an MP3 player. Naturally sales will go through the roof nonetheless. :wink:

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:30 am

I *get* it ... people jog / walk with these things all the time ... and anything
which lures them into the path of the upgrade is a good think for
Apple revenue (and my stock).

Game changing it 'aint ... and no, I won't be buying one :P

But the little video camera ... that will set the pulses racing of the high
school generation.

Pause live radio ... thats a neat feature too.

-Frazer
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:47 am

Oh boy.... you really have drank the Kool-Aid, haven't you ? :wink:

It's a completely rubbish thing to add. The camera - fine, who doesn't need more grainy YouTube videos ? - but the pedometer is laughable and trying to pass it off as anything other than that should be beneath Apple. They have by far the best product in the field and it doesn't need superfluous tat like this.

But like I said, it'll sell by the bucket load for all that. They could add a badger locator and somehow manage to spin that into increased sales.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:49 am

Alas, Mike seems unlikely to ever be beautiful (and enlightened) Apple person.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:14 am

I would like a badger-locator-app for my iphone! I've never seen one outside the zoo. Beavers and otters would be nice too.

A few days ago I found a letterbox-locator. For about 35 years I thoroughly missed that. You walk around in the city and it seems crowded with letterboxes, right until you have a letter in your pocket and start to look for one. I started to think that these things where actually changing places or went into hiding when nobody looks.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:29 am

datenland wrote:
I would like a badger-locator-app for my iphone!

I am not surprised one little bit. :P

A few days ago I found a letterbox-locator. For about 35 years I thoroughly missed that. You walk around in the city and it seems crowded with letterboxes, right until you have a letter in your pocket and start to look for one.

Life does seem to have been quite a trial for many iPhone owners prior to the existence of such a thing. :roll:

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:42 am

Zippy8 wrote:
They have by far the best product in the field


How dare you! The Sansa Clip is an incredible little player, the sound quality is exceptional, presentation is utilitarian but good, and above all, I can buy ten of them for the price of the same object with a picture of a shitting apple on it. And a pedometer.

(ps dont look at the prices on my link, you can get them for a tenner on the ebay place)
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:59 am

What Mike really needs is a player with a Pedant Meter :P

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:13 am

fworley wrote:
What Mike really needs is a player with a Pedant Meter :P

That's built-in. No need for third party apps.

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:31 am

Life does seem to have been quite a trial for many iPhone owners prior to the existence of such a thing.


A few days ago I got myself into a tight situation on my motorbike and I actually felt my thumb twitching for the Undo-Button...

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:41 am

BSOD ?

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Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:32 am

datenland wrote:
I would like a badger-locator-app for my iphone!

And a clip on the back to hold your shovel ? you can then dig the bastard up once its earth is located.
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:40 pm

back to the pedometer - my guess is that it involves no extra hardware, just some extra lines of code in the firmware - the nano already had orientation sensor hardware built in (so your videos playback the right way up), and I reckon that is what they have used for the pedometer.
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:44 pm

datenland wrote:
Beavers and otters would be nice too.

Never tried an otter, but beavers are certainly very nice!
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Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:48 am

The latest Mac vs. PC (USA) ad has dropped. A reviewer notes:-

It basically suggests ridiculous "innovations" that PC thinks will help bring people back to the world of Windows.

Yes. Apple has no time for ridiculous "innovations" :wink:

Mike,
still liking the idea of an iPod Touch more than the reality.
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