The new U2 iPod features Apple's patent-pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads digital music, podcasts, photos, audiobooks, home movies, music videos and popular television shows onto the iPod and keeps them up-to-date whenever the iPod is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0. The new U2 iPod features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback.
They cant patent that can they? auto syncing is done the same way on PDAs, cell phones and alike -- email clients do largly yhe same thing; they cant patent a method of data delivery that already is in wide use just because their use involves a differant payload, media in stead of email or contacts...
Any ipod can be engraved, the U2 one is the only one with a different front.
Any iPod can be engraved which you seem to imply a third party because Apple usually only offers plain text as an engraving option, but you seem to also dismiss third party options for coloring the front.
Is the red click wheel the only thing that makes it a special edition, not that Apple had marketed other iPod "band" editions as special editions? There was at least one other special edition where a menu background was added as well as a logo on the back, that was marketed in Japan only, the NERV iPod, there may have been others. So, Apple did market other special editions despite your assertions, whether the front was colored differently for the others is irrelevant.
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Originally posted by CosmoNut
If anything, this can be seen as an indication that Apple hasn't given up on "special edition" iPods. Maybe we'll see more of them in the future.
You mean to say: "If anything, this can be seen as an indication that Apple hasn't given up on "U2 special edition" iPods."
They've never made any other kind.
Originally posted by ecking
You mean to say: "If anything, this can be seen as an indication that Apple hasn't given up on "U2 special edition" iPods."
They've never made any other kind.
The Harry Potter iPod to name but one
Originally posted by AppleInsider
The new U2 iPod features Apple's patent-pending Auto-Sync technology that automatically downloads digital music, podcasts, photos, audiobooks, home movies, music videos and popular television shows onto the iPod and keeps them up-to-date whenever the iPod is plugged into a Mac or Windows computer using USB 2.0. The new U2 iPod features up to 14 hours of battery life for music playback.
They cant patent that can they? auto syncing is done the same way on PDAs, cell phones and alike -- email clients do largly yhe same thing; they cant patent a method of data delivery that already is in wide use just because their use involves a differant payload, media in stead of email or contacts...
Originally posted by david_oc
The Harry Potter iPod to name but one
That wasn't a different design it was just an engraving and a discount on an audio book.
Originally posted by iPickle06
is there away you can "erase" the signatures and the U2 logo?
No, but you can put a case on it to never see the back.
Originally posted by iPickle06
i like the colors but i dont like U2. is there away you can "erase" the signatures and the U2 logo?
Belt Sander
Originally posted by tonton
Bzzzt.
Beck.
Madonna.
Tony Hawk.
And there was one from No Doubt too, but I can't find any image.
Alright, now show the fronts of those ipods.
Any ipod can be engraved, the U2 one is the only one with a different front.
Originally posted by ecking
Alright, now show the fronts of those ipods.
Any ipod can be engraved, the U2 one is the only one with a different front.
Any iPod can be engraved which you seem to imply a third party because Apple usually only offers plain text as an engraving option, but you seem to also dismiss third party options for coloring the front.
Is the red click wheel the only thing that makes it a special edition, not that Apple had marketed other iPod "band" editions as special editions? There was at least one other special edition where a menu background was added as well as a logo on the back, that was marketed in Japan only, the NERV iPod, there may have been others. So, Apple did market other special editions despite your assertions, whether the front was colored differently for the others is irrelevant.