Who knew that a member of the red states might be an iPod user. Well, Christopher Morris’ excellent black and white photo essay of the private life of our fearless leader (cough) shows that, in fact, said President likes to exercise with his iPod. Obviously, this specific photo could be of anyone holding the iPod, but take a look at the entire picture story, and you’ll see. I wish we could make out what he was listening to in this photo, however. George has taken advantage of what has to be a very large gadget budget. MacDailyNews reports that he’s sporting a pair of those high-end Etymotic Research ER-6i Isolator earphones and that he’s listening to Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl (from Moondance). Too bad I don’t care for any of his other choices, but that’s a killer album. Sigh.
That makes both top members of the executive brance iPod users. The Washington Post reported that Dick Cheney’s kids bought him an iPod for Christmas in 2003. This news sparked an ugly squabble on MacDailyNews boards. Can’t we all just get along?
This set of very suspect snaps showed up on someone’s iDisk yesterday – could this be a very crafty mockup, or is it in fact the headless Mac we’ve been hearing so much about? This seems like it might be one of those typical pre-MacWorld hoaxes. But hey, who cares. It’s kinda fun to look at. I’m suspicious in that we don’t see a video port on these photos of the ‘iHome Media Centre’. And why has Apple gone all ‘UK-style’ on us?. Or perhaps there is no VGA/DVI port for this baby – it’s gonna be an s-video out or some kind of wacky outboard composite connector or something. Or maybe it’s truly meant as a media server, no head, only connected to via a remote PC or Mac. I dunno, but it’s fun to speculate wildly, isn’t it?
“Speaking during a keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show here, the executive demonstrated the phone, which in many ways mimics the iPod. It syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does, and incorporates the iPod interface for navigating and playing digital music, said Ron Garriques, a Motorola executive vice president.”
Ok. Apple is one of my favorite companies. But why in the world would are we hearing about two really draconian moves this week. First, the suit against ThinkSecret. Now, Macintouch is reporting that Steve Jobs Macworld SF keynote will not be webcast, nor will it be uplinked to a satellite feed. Here at CNN, our incoming routers always carried the keynote, and you could always count on the Mac geeks around here (including myself) to be found glued to the TVs at their desks for the duration. I don’t get it.
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