Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Apple and Microsoft both issued a slew of updates to the
iPod and
Zune lineups in the past two days, and it looks like some of the new features will be kicked down to older devices as well. Although it was expected that second-gen Zunes would get all the new Zune 3.0 features, Microsoft says that the older Zune 30 will also receive an update to enable Buy From
FM, Channels, and WiFi music store
features, and Apple reps at the Let's Rock event told CNET that the
iPod classic will eventually get an update to enable the new
Genius playlists. That's particularly interesting since Genius is most definitely a new feature, but it doesn't sound like Apple's going to charge for it -- which flies in the face of the company's "we have to charge for new features because of
Sarbanes-Oxley accounting requirements" $9.95
iPod touch update price reasoning. We won't complain too loudly about free updates, but that's definitely a little odd -- care to explain, Steve?
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iPod classic getting Genius update
Read - Zunes getting Zune 3.0 firmware update
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