Apple CEO Steve Jobs did it again yesterday when he announced more product and service upgrades for his products.
Radio people are no doubt celebrating the fact that the new Nano will still have an FM chip in them although Touches and Shuffles will continue to have no FM. It may be a moral victory but the Nano/FM has not really increased radio listening.
But focus for a moment on the brilliant move Jobs has made in the area of social networking for music.
Now there is Ping for iTunes.
From day one there are 160 million card-carrying iTunes users available to share music preferences and passions.
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