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...best way to describe Apple's iMac G5, which goes on sale later this month, is to say it looks like an iPod on growth hormones. It's what you'd get if you stretched the pocket-size music player until it was 17 in. wide and 2 in. deep, squished a supercomputer into the casing and mounted the whole thing on a metal stand. The resemblance is not coincidental. More people buy iPods than iMacs these days, and Apple admits that this third-generation iMac is its best shot at luring millions of iPod owners further into Mac world...
...best way to describe Apple's iMac G5, which was recently unveiled in Paris and goes on sale later this month, is to say it looks like an iPod on growth hormones. It's what you'd get if you stretched the pocket-size music player until it was 17 in. wide and 2 in. deep, squished a supercomputer into the casing and mounted the whole thing on a metal stand. The resemblance is not coincidental. More people buy iPods than iMacs these days, and Apple admits that this third-generation iMac is its best shot at luring millions...
...Nick Freer wants is his digital music, and he's even willing to pay for it. When the Hong Kong-based client-services director bought an iPod, it came with software to link with iTunes, Apple Computer's fee-based Internet music store that now dominates 70% of the online-music market. From his computer, Freer can browse every one of iTunes million-plus songs. He just can't buy any of them?consumers can only purchase and download iTunes tracks now in the U.S., the U.K., France and Germany, because the service only takes credit cards issued in those...
...plus song library, which Saronwala says should hit 500,000 by the end of the year. Most importantly, Soundbuzz has forged a partnership with Singapore-based computer audio hardware maker Creative, which aims to make its new Zen Touch MP3 player work as symbiotically with Soundbuzz as the iPod does with iTunes. "I think we will create a buzz," says Sim Wong Hoo, Creative's CEO. "I believe the MP3 market will be as big as the cell-phone market...
...Motivation, in the form of competition, is on the way. Last November, Apple opened its first consumer-electronics store in Tokyo?and the iPod has quickly become Japan's most coveted portable music player. Now the computer company plans an encore. An Apple executive said recently that the company plans to launch iTunes Japan within the next year. Meanwhile, other U.S. online-music sites "are absolutely looking to go international," says Michael McGuire, a research director with GartnerG2. A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the growth of paid digital-downloading sites will eventually lead to a turnaround in the slumping...