Showing posts with label iPod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPod. Show all posts

March 2, 2010

Used Vinyl

 

Does anybody still buy records? Those plastic things that spin around, sound scratchy after a while and don’t really fit into an iPod? Well, for music fans who do, the Bay Area is a true haven, with both Amoeba Records and Rasputin Music offering a huge selection of vinyl (and CDs) in Berkeley and San Francisco. Best of all, they also buy used music – from those of us who’ve gone all digital...

 

February 24, 2010

The Sound of Money


A trio that keeps brewing up hits: Apple boss Steve Jobs, turning 55 today, brought in British singer K.T. Tunstall and Starbucks founder Howard Schultz to present the newest generation of iPods at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center, back in September 2007. (More here.) Since then, Apple has added some $12 billion in revenue and made the iPhone almost as ubiquitous as the green Starbucks mermaid. (Who got a chastity makeover long before Apple decided to do the same with the App Store.)