Comments on: Apple Let’s Rock: Refreshed iPods http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/apple-lets-rock-refreshed-ipods/ Entertainment and Tech Digest Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: papa http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/apple-lets-rock-refreshed-ipods/comment-page-1/#comment-27949 papa Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:05:01 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=3126#comment-27949 Yeah, the Genius feature is an optimized purchase recommendation engine from what I can see.<br><br>I was kinda hoping for something that would come up with cool playlists based on what I already had in my library, but while this isn't something I'd use (the iTunes 8 Genius feature), I can understand why Apple would want to include it. It's a critical component for driving music sales and discovery. Yeah, the Genius feature is an optimized purchase recommendation engine from what I can see.

I was kinda hoping for something that would come up with cool playlists based on what I already had in my library, but while this isn’t something I’d use (the iTunes 8 Genius feature), I can understand why Apple would want to include it. It’s a critical component for driving music sales and discovery.

]]> By: webomatica http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/apple-lets-rock-refreshed-ipods/comment-page-1/#comment-27947 webomatica Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:59:10 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=3126#comment-27947 Hmmm, the subject of the Genius feature in iTunes 8 (and its inclusion on<br>the iPod Nano) is another subject entirely. I just started playing with it<br>today, and it seems more like the intent is to get people to buy more stuff<br>in itunes. I noticed if you hit the "atomic" genius button while a song is<br>selected / playing it generates a "genius playlist" which I assume you would<br>then push to different iPods or the Apple TV or whatever.<br><br>But as a consolation, I did see a rumor that there will be an update to the<br>classic for Genius :<br><a href="http://gizmodo.com/5048173/ipod-classic-may-get-genius-playlists">http://gizmodo.com/5048173/ipod-classic-may-get...</a> Hmmm, the subject of the Genius feature in iTunes 8 (and its inclusion on
the iPod Nano) is another subject entirely. I just started playing with it
today, and it seems more like the intent is to get people to buy more stuff
in itunes. I noticed if you hit the “atomic” genius button while a song is
selected / playing it generates a “genius playlist” which I assume you would
then push to different iPods or the Apple TV or whatever.

But as a consolation, I did see a rumor that there will be an update to the
classic for Genius :
http://gizmodo.com/5048173/ipod-classic-may-get…

]]> By: JC http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/apple-lets-rock-refreshed-ipods/comment-page-1/#comment-27942 JC Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:58:07 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=3126#comment-27942 It kills me whenever Apple adds new features in the wrong products for me. I'd kill to have the Genius feature on the Apple TV and on my iPod Classic, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen, at least not on the Classic. <br><br>Genius would be perfect in my car, where I could just pick one song and let the iPod figure out my mood from there. But it's useless within 4, 8, or even 32 GB memory constraints. My library is over 60 GB, and that's just for music. <br><br>I wouldn't even mind if they gave Genius to just the new Classic, and not last year's. I'd sell my current 160 GB Classic and get the 120 GB, even though I'd be taking a slight hit on the storage. Especially if they put the black scroll wheel on the silver Classic, which looks so cool on the new nano. <br><br>It would also be great to have Genius on my Apple TV, which is hooked up to my enormous Terabyte Media drive. I have even more music there, and for a party, it would be great to select one song and let the shuffling be directed in the same vein, rather than completely randomly across the many different types of music in my library. Sure, I could create playlists for this kind of thing, but they need to be manually updated, maintained, etc. It kills me whenever Apple adds new features in the wrong products for me. I’d kill to have the Genius feature on the Apple TV and on my iPod Classic, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen, at least not on the Classic.

Genius would be perfect in my car, where I could just pick one song and let the iPod figure out my mood from there. But it’s useless within 4, 8, or even 32 GB memory constraints. My library is over 60 GB, and that’s just for music.

I wouldn’t even mind if they gave Genius to just the new Classic, and not last year’s. I’d sell my current 160 GB Classic and get the 120 GB, even though I’d be taking a slight hit on the storage. Especially if they put the black scroll wheel on the silver Classic, which looks so cool on the new nano.

It would also be great to have Genius on my Apple TV, which is hooked up to my enormous Terabyte Media drive. I have even more music there, and for a party, it would be great to select one song and let the shuffling be directed in the same vein, rather than completely randomly across the many different types of music in my library. Sure, I could create playlists for this kind of thing, but they need to be manually updated, maintained, etc.

]]> By: papa http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/2008/09/10/apple-lets-rock-refreshed-ipods/comment-page-1/#comment-27941 papa Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:49:33 +0000 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress/?p=3126#comment-27941 I gotta admit...I like the colors. Purdy! I gotta admit…I like the colors. Purdy!

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