Yesterday’s new product announcements from Apple included the upgraded iPod nano with a built-in video camera that’s capable of shooting VGA (640×480) quality footage at 30fps.

Whilst the YouTube generation is likely to love this, it’s another example of Apple no longer innovating but lagging behind.

I say this as an Apple fanboy, though perhaps not as much a one as I used to be.

Remember the days when Apple were the first to either add a feature as standard to their equipment (CD burner on Macs) or bring hardware to the masses (iPod)? It seems that Apple is doing this less now.

Apple may well believe that video is the in thing right now, but as far as I’m concerned it’s been “in” for a few years, and not just amongst early adopters. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 10, 2009 @ 9:45 am