Nintendo in all their Geniusness (If that’s even a word) decided to ship the black Wii exclusively to Europe, and nowhere else. Nintendo send your American buddies some black Wii goodness. Cause boy does that thing look HOT.

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So Today I went to find a new album that I wanted to get… So I go to my normal source the Zune Marketplace because I have a Zune Pass. And it is no where to be found…

So the next assumption is it just isn’t coming out Today right? Well it’s on Amazon and also iTunes.

So I have one question why isn’t this stuff on auto publish in today’s world? Why not bring them online automatically at oh I don’t know midnight PST? <Sarcasm> I guess this is really a service to you because you will want the album more by the time you can actually get it. </Sarcasm>

Update: Not sure why this is, but if you click on the “All” instead of  ”Available” they albums are all there even the new ones that you can download anyway…

So as many of you know today was Apple’s announcement about all the features it would copy from Microsoft. Many of today’s announcements were not only weren’t new at all, but were filled with kicks and punches at the Zune. Not to mention punches at other companies that were either uncalled for or completely filled with incorrect information.

Firstly a free update for 3.1 on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is one of those things that should not have to be announced. It should be expected! Apple should stop this charging for updates thing. I can think of no other mp3 player that requires me to pay to get a firmware update. If you want to see how it should be done check out Microsoft with its Zune line. They are still supporting and updating the original Zune 30 from 2006 and for those of you who are counting that is 3 years old and 4 generations old.

The new iTunes Store looks a ton and I mean a ton like the Zune Marketplace. Yet they go bashing it and calling it ugly and then they go copy it and suddenly it is pretty. That is just plain stupid! They did the same thing with having a FM tuner in the Nano but that will be talked about later…

Home sharing? How about just letting you share anywhere… Cause oh yeah Zune will do that. You can take any DRM free content off your Zune and put it on any computer. Yes you have to have the Zune software install but it’s as easy as dragging and dropping content to copy it from a Zune.

Oh wow look at that! extra features for movie! now that has to be a Apple invention right? NO! We’ve had these features since DVDs came out and you can only access these on the computer anyway so what’s the point?

Why not just group everyone except iPod into the “Other” group? Was it really needed to put Microsoft and Sandisk out in the cold like that? obviously those are the companies they feel threatened by.

Um sorry Apple I can fit my Dell Netbook in my pocket on my shorts. That is a back pocket and everyone knows they are smaller. Plus you wouldn’t put the fragile iPod or iPhone in your back pocket, you’d sit on it and it would break!

Are you actually going to try and tell me that the Apple iPod touch is a better gaming unit? OK if you must… Looking at the graphics of the games will tell you in itself they aren’t that great. Then you look at the way you control the game which is all on screen or by moving the device. A real gamer is not going to be satisfied with that sort of setup. Oh and the other thing about games being expensive is stupid because both have cheaper games via download. Then there is also the comment about no iPod and what thing except an iPod itself has a iPod?

Note to Apple people… The Zune doesn’t require a subscription either and hey look at that the Zune HD is still the same price! You can get a subscription for music and you know what it’s completely optional and doesn’t even make the device more expensive.

It is (it being the video camera) only free assuming you are buying the iPod nano already. If you just want a camera a Flip mini will serve you much much better. What’s with Apple locking down the camera to only video? why can’t it take pictures to? Seems pretty pointless to me. Typical Apple deciding what you would want to do with it though…

Perhaps part of the size difference is the fact that the Mino has the USB plug built into the package. Compared to the Nano has that all separately. Include the USB cord in the size and I think you’ll end up with the Mino being smaller.

FM really? Why not HD radio? It would support FM and the latest format for radio. This makes no sense except to copy the Zune..

All in all nothing new and impressive came out of the event today, hopefully Apple won’t let us down next time.

1. The icons are not that of the Zune HD style (e.g. back icon, repeat icon, and Shuffle icon.

2. The now playing song bar is no where to be seen

3. There is a large amount is wasted space in the upper right corner

4. Why not give us a nice high quality screenshot that we can say is fake or real easily

5. It just doesn’t match the the real leaked screenshot

6. It’s plain ugly and doesn’t match the Zune Style of looking nice

7. There is no reason to go to a vertical menu like that in the software

In a very TV industry like move, “content providers” asked Boxee to remove hulu from the software. The industry made a big step by putting almost all the recent programming online for viewers to watch. The real question is why won’t they let Boxee user watch it through the software? Are they trying to force people to download them illegally?

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I really hate to be the “WAIT A MINUTE!!!” person here. But seriously, they kid that broke the record for the highest score in guitar hero broke 80 guitars first.

1. Where did he get all the money for those? AT $50 a pop that’s $4,000, that’s a whole lot of money to be spending on such a thing.
2. This is so not green it is not even funny.

My thought is this kid had to have some sort of corporate backer. Perhaps the makers of the games? I don’t mean to say the kid isn’t talent, but who paid for those guitars?

[Via NYTimes]