Sentences with phrase «own ipod»

For evidence of artists who've been able to maintain their credibility while licensing their music for commercials, you might look no further than a certain Canadian songstress who got a «big break» when her song was featured in an iPod commercial in 2007:

He helped to create one whole industry with the idea of a personal computer and a whole other industry with the iPod.

The gadget - buying public is clearly unenthused after more than a decade of conspicuous consumption that started in earnest with the iPod.

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

Running back Marshawn Lynch's control of the Seattle Seahawks» locker - room iPod was cited as key to the team's 2014 Super Bowl triumph.

Cochlear announced on Wednesday that its hearing implants will now work with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices without the need for an intermediary device (a step that's been necessary up until this point).

In 2006, Nike and Apple joined forces to create the appropriately named Nike + iPod, a sport bundle that let runners and the health conscious sync their movements to their iPod.

A former Apple executive who spearheaded development of the iPod, Fadell is founder and CEO of Nest Labs, whose Wi - Fi - enabled Nest Learning Thermostat is the shining symbol of the connected - home revolution.

Some believe Apple may in fact be looking to replicate the impact it had on the music industry when it introduced the iPod and the iTunes music store in the early 2000s.

This 9948 provision was the source of the existential question «is an iPod a computer part» during the iPod tax debacle, an issue still causing some difficulties.

The application allows blue - clad «Specialists» to scan barcodes and accept credit cards, and the company recently began replacing the souped - up iPod Touches that run EasyPay with the iPhone 5s.

Remember when the iPod was introduced?

In a sharply worded press release, a group known as the 9948 Fair Treatment Coalition states that documents it obtained through Access to Information «raise disturbing questions» about the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Department of Finance's conduct in the so - called iPod tax dispute.

This Virgin tradition may have indirectly been responsible for the creation of iTunes and the iPod, which, ironically, ended up killing our Virgin Megastores music chain.

By the time he left Apple, in 2008, Fadell had led the team that designed 18 generations of the iPod and accrued more than 100 patents on his design and technology.

To summarize, Jesse challenged my assertions that Apple changed everything with a slew of products that included the iPod, iTunes, iPhone and iPad.

The new Google Glass project lead — also the current Nest CEO and one of the founding fathers of the Apple iPod — plans to completely scrap the original and ridiculously lampooned product, The New York Times reports.

Most people associate creation of the iPod — and more than 300 million sales of the device — with Steve Jobs.

If the iPod and iTunes never existed, online music sales might have taken years longer to develop from the ashes of Napster.

So, if you buy an iPhone 5 or new iPod that runs the latest software, iOS 6, or if you download that iOS 6 onto an older iPhone, iPod or iPad, you'll get the new maps app.

By this time, the iPhone and iPod Touch were a year - old, and many Apple users were ditching iPods for more versatile devices.

The company hoped its new media player would rival the Apple iPod, which dominated the market.

When the show starts, users will be able to livestream the keynote by accessing Apple's WWDC page through Apple's Safari browser from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 7.0 or later.

All 85 rooms feature marble bathrooms, top - shelf Penhaligon's amenities and iPod docking stations.

Each transformation - from a new computer distribution channel - Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 - drove revenues and profits to new heights.

The unit has grappled with declining iPod sales, among other problems, the analyst's data shows.

When (RED) debuted in 2006, Apple funneled some of the proceeds from a red iPod Nano to the organization, which at the time was trying to reduce the number of babies around the world — 1,200 a day — born with the HIV virus.

A great example of this was the inventor of the TikTok watchband mount for the iPod Nano; he raised $ 942,978 from customers who pre-ordered his product idea.

The iPhone, for instance, had lots of the features of the iconic iPod, thus rendering the music device obsolete.

There were plenty of music players before the iPod.

But when you think about the iPod, the iPhone, iTunes, and the App Store, you realize that any one of these breakthrough ideas would be enough to propel an entrepreneur onto a list of the decade's top achievers.

Though Apple had just released its fifth - generation iPod, the Zune offered some unique features: a built - in FM radio receiver, and a Wi - Fi connection that meant Zune users could swap tunes with one other (unofficially dubbed «squirting» to the delight of reviewers).

Jobs bites back after activists accuse Apple of lackluster environmental and recycling policies San Francisco Chronicle, April 2005 They have good taste in picking the iPod, but that doesn't make their false statements true.

These are four very real issues for Canadian businesses and Canadian consumers, making the iPod tax far from a manufactured controversy.

The fact that Apple Music is such a mess suggests that Apple has either forgotten the lessons of the iPod, or it remembers — but can not marshal the organizational discipline to produce its equivalent for the streaming music era.

It was the iPod that Steve Jobs was talking about in 2003 when he uttered the line that has become one of his most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Times.

Steve Jobs most likely didn't come up with the iPod, but he built a team of people who believe in innovation and were trained to think outside the box.

One of the more baffling aspects of the iPod tax dispute was the CBSA's insistence that end - use certificates were required for retail sales of consumer electronics that claim duty - free protection through the 9948.00.00 provision.

Generally, those giving money will make online pledges with the promise of pre-buying the product, giving a donation, or earning some type of reward (anything from a free notepad to a free iPod).

Audible — Download a free audio book to your iPod, Android, Kindle or MP3 player with a Audible 30 day free trial.

The cassette player's demise in the face of evolving technology was inevitable, but its branding lives on in the iPod and the very idea of music - on - the - go.

The importer will then collect these certificates and create an internal iPod registry which they are required to make available to the CBSA, upon request.

The name still lives on in Walkman MP3 Players and Walkman Phones from Sony Ericsson, but its youth - in - motion branding has been usurped by the more dynamic and aggressive iPod from Apple.

Incredibly, these numbers beat even Apple, which has been a darling worldwide ever since it shook up the consumer electronics industry more than a decade ago with the introduction of the iPod.

Apple is the company that built the greatest comeback story in business on the tiny iPod — which did one thing well and looked great doing it.

The iPod or iPhone will then act as a transponder, emitting a signal that can be read by other app users.

Then Sony stated that their claim of 9948.00.00 protection was denied and that they have already paid an iPod tax on their MP3 players.

In a piece for Canada.com, William Wolfe - Wylie examines the iPod Tax dispute and concludes that it is a manufactured controversy.

There are at least four «iPod tax» controversies here, all of which go well beyond the fact Canadian consumers will be paying more for goods.

At first blush there seem to be plenty of audiophiles out there willing to trade up from an iPod to the US$ 399, Toblerone - shaped device when it becomes available in October, not to mention fork out upwards of US$ 15 for digital album downloads from Ponomusic.com for the superior audio experience it offers.