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...model) and the iPod photo. Meanwhile, the company that makes the microprocessor brains for the iPod started shipping a new chip last week that consumes less power?meaning that iPod's bugbear, its mediocre battery life, may soon be banished. Advantage Apple. "There's a gap between understanding what users want and being able to provide it," says Susan Kevorkian, a senior research analyst at market-research firm International Data Corp. Apple's main edge, she says, is the iPod's sophisticated software and "deceptively simple" user interface...
...Another iPod mini challenger is the Zen Micro, made by Singapore-based Creative Technology. Like the H10, the Zen Micro sports an FM radio and audio/voice recording. The unit has a solid feel, a sharp, white-backlit screen, and an easy-to-understand menu rivaling Apple's famously user-friendly interface. At $230, it's slightly cheaper than a 6-GB iPod mini; it's also smaller, plays tunes in the Windows Media Audio format as well as MP3, and when you throw in the radio and recording features, it might be a better deal...
...DIED. JEF RASKIN, 61, known as the "father of the Macintosh," who, as Apple Computer's 31st employee, envisioned a truly user-friendly computer and in 1979 founded a team to create it, sparking the personal- computer revolution; of pancreatic cancer; in Pacifica, California. He named the project Macintosh (after his favorite apple) and headed it until 1982, when he had a falling-out with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and left the company?two years before the first Macintosh hit the stores...
...used on Boeing 747s. In 1991 his company merged with ID Two, designer of the first laptop, to form Ideo. During the heady high-tech 1990s, the firm became the hottest product-design shop in Silicon Valley, working with the biggest names in business, churning out hundreds of supremely user-friendly designs like the Palm V and the Polaroid I-Zone "fun" camera and winning more awards per year than any other design firm...
DIED. JEF RASKIN, 61, known as the "father of the Macintosh," who, as Apple Computer's 31st employee, envisioned a truly user-friendly computer and in 1979 founded a team to create it, sparking the personal-computer revolution; of pancreatic cancer; in Pacifica, Calif. He named the project Macintosh (after his favorite apple) and headed it until 1982, when he had a falling out with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and left the company--two years before the first Macintoshes hit the stores...