Where All Of This Is Going

If you haven’t read Adam Lisagor’s excellent iPad TV post yet, you should. I think he’s on to something with this:

If you look at QuickTime’s UI elements across the iPad and iPhone OS and compare them with QuickTime X’s UI on the Mac, it’s not hard to conclude that Apple is making efforts at a shared UI language which spans both platforms, for the sake of unity and singularity of purpose. When QuickTime X was released, its player controls now locked within the bounds of the video frame, disappearing and reappearing on mouse hover, Apple was preparing us, ever so subtly, to begin to touch our video.

After a week with the device, it’s becoming pretty clear that the interactions that Apple exposes via the iPad are just plain natural. Handing it off to my mother yesterday, she intuitively knew what to do. To me, that’s amazing.

iTunes LP

iTunesLP.net–an unofficial resource for developers of the iTunes LP format. If you’re like me, you likely have some interest in where this format is going seeing as how they are basically stand-alone web sites distributed and delivered via iTunes. There’s the opportunity for the iTunes LP to break away from music and make it’s way into podcasts and iTunes U, that’s where I want to see it go.

Bell And Telus

According to the Globe And Mail, Telus and Bell are set to release the iPhone in November though I find the title of the article a little misleading. In the body, no reps give confirmation so the speculation is wrapped around the always useful “people familiar with the matter said”. If it’s true, people across Canada can look forward to being hosed by two more carriers and price collusion can soldier on. Addendum: Bell confirms.