{"id":84,"date":"2006-02-28T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2023-01-05T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T16:52:45","slug":"ipo-hi-fi-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/28\/ipo-hi-fi-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Hi-Fi &#8211; no thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m going to pass on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060302121949\/http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodhifi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPod Hi-fi<\/a> and stick with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonos.com\">Sonos<\/a> system. And $99 for a leather iPod case? Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll pass on that too. Here&#8217;s a sample reaction from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060302035234\/http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/02\/28\/live-from-the-steve-jobs-keynote-fun-new-products\" target=\"_blank\">comments section of the Engadget livecast<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>how can jobs say he&#8217;s an audiophile when iTunes sells crap lo-fi music and he drops a turd like the &#8220;ipod hifi&#8221; on the market?!??!? boo apple&#8230;was hoping it would be something like the soundbridge or something and maybe lossless music on itunes&#8230;.. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060228103026\/http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intel-based Mac Mini<\/a>, on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/thomashawk.com\/2006\/02\/apple-closer-to-getting-it-right.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">looks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/apple\/The_new_Macmini_is_the_perfect_HDTV_HTPC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promising<\/a>. How much longer until HD content is available on iTunes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to pass on the iPod Hi-fi and stick with my Sonos system. And $99 for a leather iPod case? Yeah, I think I&#8217;ll pass on that too. Here&#8217;s a sample reaction from the comments section of the Engadget livecast. how can jobs say he&#8217;s an audiophile when iTunes sells crap lo-fi music and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}