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$10. [iTunes Store link]

i recently got the Canon PowerShot SD960IS. i first heard about it when @gruber linked to this review from @cabel. so far, i’m loving it. top features:

• 12 megapixel pics that look great
• 720p h264 video with stabilization
• looks really nice and is small & pocketable
• turns on and shoots pics really fast!

it’s replaced a bunch of old devices:

1. an old canon optura 400 minidv camcorder: who wants to have to import dv video over firewire when you can record straight to 720p h264?
2. my trusty sony dsc-w1 5mp digital camera: bought it 5 years ago, and after several burning man’s it was on it’s last legs
3. the flip mino hd i just bought a few months ago: nice device, but the video is really jerky…and the sd960is captures the same quality video with stabilization
4. a year old Canon Powershot SD750 7mp digital camera that I gave to Amo for her birthday last year.

we only need 1 digital camera, especially since she has her iPhone 3G (2mp pics) and soon i’ll have my iPhone 3G S (3mp pics + VGA video).

those are icons from the over 50,000 apps on the App Store, pulsating as they’re purchased:

some aggressive moves today. highlights:

• improvements & price drops across the entire notebook line (unexpected!)
• Snow Leopard is going to be practically free ($29)
• iPhone OS 3.0 goes out to over 40M iPhones/iPod Touches next week. this is a huge update that makes all of these already-purchased devices way more useful to customers.
• iPhone 3GS on sale next Fri. Faster, with video, and twice the memory – all at the same price.
• And perhaps the biggest shot fired: iPhone 3G 8GB dropped to $99.

so the Palm Pre is now twice as expensive and the iPhone 3G, and you gotta use it with Sprint (by far the worst rated carrier in the US). and just a handful of apps.

as Gruber pointed out so eloquently, the Pre will likely steal customers from Blackberry users, not iPhone users…they’re the niche market that insists on having a physical keyboard.

submitted and available as soon as Apple approves it: