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Submission + - Apple, now ever so slightly closer to God.

Submitted by GLowder on Thursday January 25, 2007 @01:18AM

GLowder writes: Apple may have moved ever so slightly closed to God. ;) Pope Benedict XVI was given an iPod nano "the mid-range model of Apple's hot selling digital music player, was presented to the Pope on Friday by a group of Vatican Radio employees, according to the Catholic News Service....The news service said compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky had been downloaded and install on the player." The Vatican also now offers podcasts in 9 different languages.

Submission + - The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let you Hear

Submitted by

FunkeyMonk

on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @11:38PM

FunkeyMonk writes: "Slate.com has an article by Paul Collins explaining that the iTunes music store has thousands of tracks that you can't buy in the U.S. From the article:
The iTunes Music Store has a secret hiding in plain sight: Log out of your home account in the page's upper-right corner, switch the country setting at the bottom of the page to Japan, and you're dropped down a rabbit hole into a wonderland of great Japanese bands that you've never even heard of. And they're nowhere to be found on iTunes U.S.

The article goes on to mention a few workarounds if you want to purchase foreign tunes. But this brings up a good point — why shouldn't iTunes be the great mythical omniscient music repository where all the world's music is available instantly? Is this a case of **AA greed, or simply a marketing decision?"

Submission + - Playstation 2 was Best Selling Console at Xmas

Submitted by evw on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:28AM

evw writes: The numbers are in and the best selling console this past Christmas was the six year old PlayStation 2 at 1.4 million units! The Xbox 360 sold 1.1m, Wii sold 600k and PS3 sold 491k. The lessons? 1) The new consoles were supply constrained. Analysts thought the Wii would sell twice as many but they couldn't ship enough of them. 2) Price is important. Consumers would rather buy an old machine with tons of games available than drop a lot of money on something new. I'll bet PS3 picks up when people start upgrading and the prices have dropped. Interestingly, other news sources took the same data and neglected to mention the part about PS2 coming out on top.

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