Prelude To Innovations in Motion

So, yes, Dell is at it again. Making a BREAKTHROUGH. Not yet, has a computer company, or anyone for that matter, made a digital music player with large capacity, long battery life, and easy to use controls nor has anyone ventured into Online Music Store country. The "Dell Music Store," (where'd they get that name?), will be offering "thousands of music selections and allows seamless, legal downloading of songs."

Now, if you could not tell already, I am being sarcasitc. Dell has always been the company to watch what the others are doing, and jump on the band wagon instead of innovating. They claimed to have the frontiersmen of the wireless laptop, among other things. The "Dell DJ" and "Dell Music Store" are the lamest things out there. Right now, the iPod is the number one digital music player out there, despite the high price, and how is a late comer like Dell going to do anything? iTunes for Windows will be coming out before the end of the year, and it is rumored much earlier, at a suspected Apple Special Event on October 24th that will also feature the release (or release date) of Panther, Apple's next OS release, and along with iTunes for Windows will be iTunes MUSIC STORE for Windows...
What Dell is doing is trying to get into the areas that the computer world is not currently penetrating, which is all that one can do at this time. MacCentral's story includes a notice of "Dell also introduced its own 17-inch wide-format LCD TV; the 'Dell Media Experience' application, media center control software that will be added to its Dimension desktop line; the Axim X3 handheld and a digital projector." You cannot blame anyone for trying, but you can blame them for copying a great idea of a Digital Music Player and Store. All in all, Apple released a statement today:

"It appears that Dell is re-branding one of the second-tier music services that will be announced soon, just like they are re-branding Creative's MP3 player. There is little original here," Apple's statement said

Also, there have been many notices of the new Apple Logo in the most recent build of Panther sent out to developers. There is all this talk about the new logo, whether or not it will be used everywhere around Apple, or just in the new OS. There is discussion on if people like it or not, lest we forget when Apple ditched the color-striped Apple for the monochromatic one we know now. I don't think that it would be used every where, as it would be hard to reproduce such a detailed logo for print on paper and software packages. Also, then there would be a need to retool the Apple Store signage. I am going on the record saying that the new Apple Chromo Logo will not be used in wide circulation.Yet, there seems to be a comment from Apple, so there is not sure way to know what are the facts that are fine to print.