Check out this article on Yahoo! Finance
According to the article, Apple will begin selling songs for as cheap as 69 cents per song. Apparently all songs will be sold without copy protection as well. Some songs will still be 99 cents and $1.29, but I love to hear that music is getting cheaper to buy!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444089,00.html
Enough said! Twitter has been recognized by the US Gov’t as a tool used by terrorists!
Filed under: sports, technology | Tags: gamecocks, ncaa football 2009, xbox 360
So, today is July 15th. I have been waiting for this day for almost 6 months. NCAA Football 2009 comes out today. I bought an X-Box 360 in December, and I bought it for the sole reason of being able to play this game. I didn’t buy last years game, because I wanted to wait for this one. There has never been a better game made in the sports gaming industry. I have never even seen ANY version of NCAA football on the 360, but I will today. And I will probably play at least 4 games (3-4 hours) today when I get off work. I will get the game at lunch and read through the whole manual numerous times. And then, when I play Dustin and Rhodesy, I will dominate them using the USC Gamecocks against their pathetic Clempson Tigers.
I have never posted a video, but I couldn’t resist this one. This was from The Soup on “E” last Friday. You may remember my post on the new iPhone that just came out. I wish I would have had this video then, but better late than never.
YOU HAVE GOT TO WATCH THIS!
Lee, don’t worry, I’m not hating on you. If I had AT&T, I would very likely have one too…but this was absolutley hilarious..and for the record, I think the iPhone is awesome.
If you pay attention to technology or even most of the internet news sites, you’ve seen the article about the new Apple iPhone. Now, I’ve only seen and messed around with one of these and it is rather awesome. It’s been dropped and still worked with a cracked screen. So, it’s definitely an impressive hand held machine phone music player GPS navigator e-mail sending piece of metal.
Here’s the news, Apple dropped the price WAY down on these little phones. It’s now $200 cheaper. Hmm, maybe I’ll go get a iPhone now that it only costs $199.00. Ooopsss…nevermind. Check this out.
It’s really more expensive. Huh? What?
Yes, the new iPhone is cheaper but the monthly plan is more expensive. It’s $10/month more which equals $240 more over the life of the 2 year mandatory contract with AT&T. So the phone is cheaper, but the plan is more. It ends up being $40 more expensive if you compare the old phone and old plan to the new phone and new plan. Plus, the back of the phone is made of plastic now instead of aluminum. Typical for these big companies – not just apple. It really drives me crazy. Consumerism in general drives me crazy. I drive myself crazy.
I always think to myself – I want, I want, I want….other people (the media, magazines, movies, and commericals,) try to communicate to me – I need, I need, I need–you really need this – you’d be cooler if you had this – you’d fit in more – you’d be hip….blah blah blah blah blah
Companies always try to find ways to encourage us to buy the newest thing. Trouble is, you can never keep up. The computer I bought (a HP by the way) a few months ago is now out of date. For what I bought my 30gb iPod for a year ago, I can now buy 80gb (and it looks cooler and has this neat scrolling function). Sorry to all of those that spent $3,000 on an HDTV 2 years ago, and it’s now only $1,000 for an even better picture.
Chances are that I’ll never have an iPhone. Mainly b/c I have Verizon and you’ve got to have AT&T. I love my iPod and when it breaks (or when I drop it in a glass of water again) I will definitely get a new one, but not until it breaks. I can’t keep up, and I never will be able to keep up – but most importantly, it doesn’t make sense to try to keep up, because you never will. Something newer is bound to come. And it will be sooner rather than later.
ps – I’m not an Apple hater. I love technology and apple rocks. I wish I had more Mac stuff. Just didn’t want you to think that this “new’ iPhone is really “cheaper.”
Edit: I read this post today and it gives you a little more detailed explanation on some of this. It’s worth a read. Click HERE.
