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5 items tagged “ipod”

Heavier than Air. Charles Miller points out that every time Apple breaks the mold with a new product (the iPod, the iPod Mini, the iMac and now the MacBook Air) they lose in feature matrix comparisons but win in the marketplace. 2 22nd January 2008, 1:32 am

Apple—Web apps. Interesting (and slightly confusing) to see Apple choose “Web apps” as the term for applications targeted at the iPhone and iPod touch. 0 11th October 2007, 8:40 pm

I heard that Foxconn—the place that makes the iPods and iPhones—consumes 3,000 pigs a day.

Bunnie Huang 1 14th July 2007, 12:59 pm

If your average iPod weighs five ounces with packaging, then Apple has moved about 21,875,000 pounds of them, equivalent in weight to 1,325 full-grown male African elephants, 35 times as many as Hannibal’s force.

Paul Ford 0 8th January 2007, 1:46 pm

Percussive maintenance, with a twist. How to fix your broken iPod by dropping it, repeatedly. 0 20th December 2006, 9:15 pm

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