New Apple Products

Here's some of the info from Steve Jobs at the MacWorld Conference. I must give Steve credit for a fantastic presentation. The range of products they're offering and the level of sophistication is truely amazing.

The iPhone is great, Apple TV is really useful and, you know, I may even become an Apple champion! Shock horror!

But credit where it's due! I'll be one of the first to get the iPhone, and will probably get the Apple TV device when I get some stuff downloaded from iTunes.

Summary:

• A neat little into with James Brown!
• Quick note on their completed transition to Intel processors in just 7 months.
• Their use of OS 10.
• Thanks their users, developers and third-party suppliers
• Commented on people buying Macs for the first time which is now over half of their sales.
• A cool advert about the differences between the Mac OS and Windows Vista.
• Talks about their iPod range and the iPod as the most popular video player, the iPod Nano as the most popular mp3 player and the Shuffle as the world's most wearable mp3 player.

Music

• iTunes has sold over two billion songs! Yikes
• 500 million songs a day are bought every day on iTunes
• 4th largest seller of music, and now sell more than Amazon
• sold over 50million tv shows on iTunes
• 1.3 million movies sold in the first 4 months
• Paramount to be selling movies on iTunes
• The Zune player got 2% market share of mp3 sales in their first month, Apple got 62% and the rest 36%.

Apple TV

• Apple TVNow this is totally-sexy, streaming TV and movies streaming from your wireless internet connection as well as syncronise between computers and stream from other computers.
• This is simply awesome for just $299 and out in Feb.
• Watch PC/Mac content on your widescreen TV
• upto 720p definition
• 40GB hard drive 50 hours video
• 802.11 Wireless: B, G & N standards
• Auto-sync content from a computer
• Out next month

But that's just one of the products. Pop over to the iPhone offers site to see the fantastic new iPhone. It's simply awesome.