In honor of the debut ofiTunes Plus , it ’s a plus - sized edition of the Macworld Podcast . We ’ll speak to the former heading of Apple ’s Industrial Design Group , await back at last hebdomad ’s D : All Things Digital conference and its high profile Bill Gates - Steve Jobs acme , and examine ( of row ) iTunes Plus .
We kick thing off with a news report from on-line executive editor Philip Michaels , who see alecture on industrial design at Appleheld at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View , Calif. Phil sing with one of the featured speakers , Robert Brunner , who ran Apple ’s Industrial Design Group from 1989 to 1996 . Then , editorial film director Jason Snell sit down withPC World editor program - in - chief Harry McCracken ; both Jason and Harry attended the D conference last week and report on what lead down when Steve and Bill share a point . Finally , I excuse the finer points of iTunes Plus to a collie .
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Show Notes
Before we wade into the above interviews , I talk a footling bit about the iPhone ’s June 29 ship date , in particular the ads that debut on TV this past weekend . Take a looking atthe adsfor yourself .
you’re able to get Jason ’s impression of the Jobs - Gates sitting here ( or readthe full transcriptof the event . ) Jason was also on hand to account on Jobs ’ solo academic session with D co - boniface Walt Mossberg .
Finally , my iTunes Plus segment will make a whole spate more horse sense — well , the non - collie parts anyhow — if you glance at myfirst face at the DRM - detached online medicine offerings .
Music acknowledgment : The untitled Macworld Podcast radical music was written by yours truly .
