Video iPod and Other Mac News
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple may be getting into the music video department fulltime, possibly releasing a video iPod later this year. Apple would probably price the music videos at around $1.99, perhaps giving a discount when the song is purchased too (my guess is that this discount will bring the combined price down to $1.98, the price they used before for a video/song combination). A video iPod is a great move on Apple's part. If Steve Jobs listens to me, he would also unveil a wireless Apple Store, where you can buy songs, games, and video for your Video iPod or iPod.
In other Apple news, the company is still going ahead with the plan to switch over to Intel processors. Currently, developers have been able to boot both Windows and the Mac OS off of the same computer. Of course, you won't be able to run the Mac OS on a Windows Machine, but you will be able to run both on a Mac. If you've always wanted to buy a Mac and avoided doing it because you were afraid that one, small program would be incompatible, your time to buy a Mac is almost here. In my opinion, I can see people using Windows for the business side of programs, but using the Mac for anything creative. Of course, a time will come when everyone realizes that even the business side can be done more easily on Macs--and then "goodbye" to Windows. Or, probably not. Regardless, it will be very interesting to see how Apple handles the shift and whether or not Microsoft tries to stop Apple from running Windows on their machines.
