Year: 2005

Headless iMac is next step in digital living room for Apple

In a research note to clients today, Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich provided his thoughts on reports of a headless (without monitor) sub-$500 iMac. “Why require a PC owner to buy a new monitor to get a Mac?” stated Milunovich. “Selling just the system unit would cut significantly the cost to switch.” He said that the proposed iMac could cannibalize sales of the eMac, but the impact “should be modest” as eMacs are targeted at the education market.

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Pod2Go 1.1 adds podcasting support, more

Pod2Go 1.1 from Kainjow Software is the latest version of the software that downloads information to your iPod such as news, weather forecasts, movie showtimes, lyrics and more. New features in this update include the ability to automatically download podcasts to your iPod, along with new and improved syncing, a Launcher tool for opening applications and AppleScripts on sync, more powerful scheduled syncing, and support for Yahoo US and Canada movies.

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Analyst: Apple music business could hit $5 billion by 2006

Steve Lidberg of Pacific Crest Securities says that a flash memory-based iPod, and new initiatives in 2005, should help Apple grow its music business to more than US$5 billion by 2006. “We look for Apple to introduce a flash-based iPod and wireless accessories and new types of audio content to monetize is customer base,” Lidberg said, adding that he expects 2005 to be a “strong year” for Apple to set up new partnerships to bring iTunes to more devices.

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