Cheap Apple products, Amazon AutoRip, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Thursday, January 10, 2013
Cheap Apple products, Amazon AutoRip, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Thursday, January 10, 2013
2013-01-10
it's January 10th 2013
I'm Brian Bishop and I cut a mean rug
this is 90 seconds on the verge
presented by 4th apples not here at CES
but it's managed to grab some headlines
earlier this week rumors broke that
Apple is planning to release a low-cost
iPhone and a recent interview however
Apple's senior VP Phil Schiller seemed
to contradict that information saying
that cheap devices will never be the
future of Apple's products this could be
a question of presentation it's unlikely
Apple would ever think of its own
products as cheap
of course the company has been known to
head-fake from time to time to words
iPad Mini Amazon is using its retail
operations to push its cloud music
service the company recently introduced
a new feature called Auto rip buy a CD
and Amazon will deposit the tracks into
your Amazon digital music locker it's
not just for you produces either auto
ripped support CDs bought going back all
the way to 1998 so rest easy
your Evanescence collection is covered
it turns out former HP CEO Mark Hurd had
an unlikely ally Steve Jobs heard what
HP in the wake of a sexual harassment
scandal in 2010 but Bloomberg
Businessweek reports the job pre-shop
the executive to help him return
jobs reportedly wanted to preserve HP's
legacy and even offered to stick with
HP's board to smooth things over
Kurt is now president at Oracle and
those are today's top stories join us
tomorrow when we'll be taking a look at
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poker really a good idea
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