Apple Prepared For Rough Sailing

With people having less and less disposable cash to wave about, it’s amazing that Apple has managed to keep going and promoting its famous iPod MP3 player to the point that people are still scooping them up as quick as they can. Apple, however, has been smart and turned their sight toward other business ventures in order to keep their most popular lines still in production. While the iPod sales for the first quarter of 2008 only increased 1% since last year, Apple’s business plan will allow it to keep going even as their MP3 player sales begin to tank. How? They have targeted the people who already own iPods and have begun investing heavily into their iTunes store, adding upgrades to it so that their customers are now able to also upload music to their iPod Touch products and iPhones.

Itty Bitty Speakers To Be Released

Sometimes the headphones get to be too much and a set of speakers are what you need. If you are traveling or sitting at a desk or even in a recliner at home, the joy of listening to music is very relaxing. The new Macally TurboTune speakers will be able to help. Brand new on the market, they use the headphone jack on your iPod to produce your music and they come with a 760mAh rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. TurboTunes will cost around $30.00 when they hit the shelves and they use a mini-USB port for battery charging.

If you are the owner of a fifth-generation iPod and other iPod classic models, the TurboTunes won’t work for you. Instead, look into the PowerTune speakers. They are a 4-in-1 speaker unit that comes with the battery charger, case, stand, and of course, batteries, and are currently pricing at $35.00.

Games Come Back To iPod

iPod owners who enjoyed playing games on their units but have been unable to download some of their favorites will be tickled to find out that the compatibility issues iPod classic and iPod Nano were having have been resolved.

iTunes Store will be offering the new and improved version of Mahjong for these two phone types, allowing iPod users to download the game for $5.00. Mahjong offer three different game modes, 72 tile layouts, and hours of Chinese board game fun. Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini Golf, Pac-Man, Tetris, Texas Hold’em, Vortex and Zuma were the games that debuted with the fifth generation unit, but compatibility issued did not allow older units to play them.