iTunes is the Xbox of music downloads in Japan

[Mulboyne]

This was in a UK Sunday paper: Why the iPod is losing its cool. If the author is right, it should make Captain Japan happy.

[emperor]

I was just about to sell my 4G:20GB (in anticipation of new updates) and now i cant find it!! I hardly ever lose things - but when i do it drives me nuts...
I wish i could phone the thing and make it ring out, or locate it with a GPS tracker.

[Kuang_Grade]

I was just about to sell my 4G:20GB (in anticipation of new updates) and now i cant find it!! I hardly ever lose things - but when i do it drives me nuts...
I wish i could phone the thing and make it ring out, or locate it with a GPS tracker.

Most of them are pretty klugey looking, but maybe you could use a remote finder...lots of various companies make one, but here is one site showing the general idea
http://www.keyringer.com/

[emperor]

here is one site showing the general ideahttp://www.keyringer.com

i know about them, but they be FuGlY!!

i want something inbuilt
a lot of people are calling for an ipod with integrated bluetooth
and apple will probably respond
...in a couple of years
...once its manufactured in enough colours
...for a premium price

i want built-in Galileo GPS + cold fusion batteries
... + ZOD lasers
[ATTACH]2214[/ATTACH]
NOWWW!!!

[Charles]

i want something inbuilt
a lot of people are calling for an ipod with integrated bluetooth...

Why would you need bluetooth? Get a new iPod Shuffle, it's small and light enough to wear as an earring. The Shuffle is already lighter than most bluetooth earphones. All you need is a set of earphones with a REALLY short cord.

[Mulboyne]

MacWorld: Online media downloads suffer first fall in Japan

The number of downloads from legal music and video services in Japan has fallen for the first time, according to the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). A total of 111.6 million downloads were made during the second quarter of this year, down from 114.3 million in the first quarter of the year, the RIAJ said. The figures are derived from data supplied to the RIAJ by its 42 member companies. The drop is the first change in fortunes for the market, which has been growing steadily quarter-on-quarter since the RIAJ began supplying figures in 2005. In the latest quarter downloads from both internet sites like the iTunes Store and Yahoo Music and from mobile phone-based ringtone sites fell. On the internet a total of 6.3 million single tracks were downloaded during the period, down from 6.9 million in the first quarter of the year. The number of albums downloaded during the period rose to 342,000 in the quarter from 333,000 in the prior quarter, but that wasn't enough to offset the drop in single track downloads. As a result the total number of internet audio downloads fell 9 per cent quarter-on-quarter to 6.6 million, said the RIAJ.