blech:
posted on 2006/05/23 19:47
Apple announce a tie-up with shoe people (oooh, how unhip does that sound?) Nike for something aimed at people who do exercise.
There's some electronics in a shoe, or something, and a dongle you stuff into the Dock port of an iPod nano (they seem pretty sure it's just for the nano, by the way) and then you get additional features. Like... the Power Song!
From the Nike+iPod menu, you can set a Power Song. When you want to hear this song during your workout, press and hold the center button for instant sonic motivation.
According to the Apple site, Black Eyed Peas work well for this. Er.
But what's this? Voice notification?
As you run, iPod nano tells you your time, distance, pace, and calories burned via voice feedback that adjusts music volume as it plays.
I'm sure people have been muttering that it'd be nice if the iPod could tell you what a track was as it changed. Obviously this dongle thing can mix speech with the music, so is it too much to hope that this will actually show up for the next iPods?
Also, there's a mention of iTunes 6.0.5, so people who eagerly await minor point changes can start getting excited now.
I'd include a picture of a shoe here, but the spool's thumbnailer chokes on PNGs and, bafflingly, the Apple site uses those and not JPGs. (The front page of the iPod+Nike store has a whopping great 640K 900 pixel wide image.)
jerakeen:
I'm really sorry about the png thing, ok? Stop needling me.
If you're not careful, I'll port the spool to rails, and we'll be all cool and hip and web2.0
then you'll be sorry.
hitherto:
You port it to rails, I'll add tons of crazy script.aculo.us animation effects. Then we'll all be really sorry.
blech:
Hey, it wasn't so much a complaint about the thumbnailer as about Apple's web design department.
I know all the cool kids have bandwidth to spare these days, but still, a page that weighs nearly a meg just because they can't run their image through a compressor?
jerakeen:
Aaah, so they're dogfooding iweb, then.
hitherto:
The first rule of dogfood: check if it stinks before you wolf it down.
We hate you all. Yes, especially you. Sod off and DIE