Apple September 1st Keynote 2010

Hey guys, this is Mac Heads 101, and today I'm going to talk about Apple's new products that they just released on the September 1st event of 2010.

So first off, they claimed to have updated every iPod. They didn't do the iPod Classic, so I don't know if they don't consider that an iPod anymore, but that's what happened with that. This is all the things that happened in order: they talked about the iPod Shuffle, then the iPod Nano, the iPod Touch, and then, uh, the Apple TV, and then, last but not least, iTunes 10.

What they did to the iPod Shuffle was basically they kept the same Shuffle that they, uh, put the buttons on it. I think it might look a little bit different. It still has the clip; it's basically like the second generation except for it has a lot of colors. It's a little bit smaller, but it still has the buttons on it.

All right, then, uh, the iPod Nano. The iPod Nano I am not the biggest fan of, at least for now. I might start to like it later. A lot of people talk to really like it, and it basically is a square, small thing like that. It is just a screen like an iPod Touch but without the internet. They disabled—there's no more, I can't—there's no longer a camera, and there's no longer the ability to watch videos on it.

So basically, they made it really small, and they just put a touchscreen, and basically it's like the size of an iPod Touch. Steve Jobs even called it an iPod Touch by accident a couple of times, so I don't really like it. There's not even a home button; you have to like double tap on the screen or something. You might actually press a button, but one cool feature is you can just turn the screen anytime because it's square.

So it's clipped on wrong way. I am not the biggest fan of this new iPod. You know, I think it's just a way to get people to buy it and say, "Oh my God, I want the iPod Touch" as a bigger screen, stalls, multitouch with internet. That's what I thought. Like, that's basically what the iPod Touch used to be since it didn't have a camera. It was just like a watered-down iPhone. Everyone I knew that had an iPod Touch just one day tonight. But that's just me.

The next thing they updated was the iPod Touch. Now, as they did mention, the iPod Touch now has the camera—both the front-facing and the back-facing. It has FaceTime. I'm not quite sure how that's going to work. They didn't explain it; there's probably an app for it because you can't do it within the phone call. But they said they will allow FaceTime from iPhones to iPods.

They also said 4.2 is coming to the iPad shortly. I think when 4.2 comes, the iPad by that time will have an iPad with the camera, so you can FaceTime too. But that just made my predictions. As for the front-facing and back-facing camera, the Retina display is also significantly thinner. It has a new design—not that much different, but if you look at the back, you'll see it no longer has that black little area for the Wi-Fi bar antenna, so it's just built right in.

All right, and the next thing is the Apple TV. It's much smaller; it's now in black, and just black, I believe. Hold on, let me check. All right, but the new Apple TV is basically much smaller than the old Apple TV. They very, uh— the Apple TV was never really a hit, so they just tried to add a bunch of new features.

You can stream movies; you can't buy movies anymore, you just rent them. There's actually something as cool as you should be able to play movies directly, wirelessly, from your iPod onto your Apple TV. Sorry about that, and it should play onto your Apple TV, so that should be pretty nice.

Um, so you can watch movies wirelessly from your iPod onto your TV if you have guests over—no wires, so that it should be pretty easy. Um, yeah, but if you don't know what the Apple TV is, it's basically like Comcast digital cable, where it's an entertainment system. Now you can watch Netflix on it, you can watch YouTube on it, watch slideshows in your pictures.

Yeah, all right. And then, last but not least, is iTunes 10. They gave a new logo; they dropped out the CD. The new iTunes logo is now blue with a black music symbol inside it. It kind of looks like a Safari icon. There is a silver rim around it, and they have added a new feature called Ping, which is basically trying to make a social networking thing for music.

This is just tried, probably to get more people to buy songs on iTunes because a lot of people are starting to get their songs not through iTunes. If you use Ping, then your friend would be like, "Okay, I bought this song by Kanye West or something, click here to listen to it," and then you'll get a 30-second preview, and then you'll have to buy it, and they'll buy it through iTunes automatically. So I don't know, that's just what I thought.

Another weird thing is when it showed your music on your profile, instead of showing the music you have in your iTunes, it showed the music you bought. So I had music I bought a while ago that I don't listen to anymore, and that's what it displayed. I decided to change that manually. But other than that, that was all of the updates.

Then they had, um, I believe one of the members of Coldplay come up and play some songs. I'm not sure it's Coldplay, though; I didn't really recognize him. But that was a new update on the iPods, and on the Apple TV, and on iTunes.

Tell me what you think, and, uh, leave comments below. And don't forget to like the video and subscribe. Thanks for watching!