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Pop stars U2 partner with iPod
Apple also announces European version of iTunes Music Store and super box-sets
By Alessandro Cancian
Originally Published: 2004-11-07
Soon, Canada will finally get its own iTunes digital music store. The long-expected announcement came at a press conference held in California last week. A very healthy Steve Jobs, after his surgery a few months ago to get a pancreatic tumour removed, accompanied by two musical legends like Bono and the Edge of band U2, launched the European version of his revolutionary iTunes Music Store. Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain are now able to enjoy the same innovative features and the same price of €0.99 per song that turned iTunes into the world's foremost online music store. Canada will have to wait some more, but the launch in the land of the maple leaf is set for November.
The press conference was also meant to introduce two new models of the world's best-selling MP3 player, the iPod. Apple's gadget sold over 2 million units in the last quarter alone, or 92 percent of the market of hard disk-equipped players.
Still skeptical of the advisability of launching a do-it-all handheld, Apple chose not to change the design and functionality of its successful player even in the new version, called iPod Photo, that adds the ability to show pictures to the classic iPod.
iPod Photo has the same shape, style, and even weight - 158 grams - of its predecessor, adopting a wider (220 x 176 pixel) backlit colour screen instead of the old monochrome display. In addition to the audio features of classic iPod, Photo can archive onto its 40- or 60-GB hard disk up to 25,000 photos and display them in manual sequence or slideshow, even if the player is playing a song or a playlist at the same time.
"Carrying around one's whole photographic and musical collection wherever one goes is the next big thing," remarked Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "Anyone owning a digital camera would like to have fun and share one's growing library of digital pictures wherever one goes. Unlike video contents, photo contents are free and abundant, and there is no problem of copyrights to handle."
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