NextFitness Archive

Why Your Feedback is So Important


We’ve released an update to NextFitness today, (and new NextFitness software if you’re on a Mac). There are dozens of behind-the-scenes improvements and bug fixes, and it’s all because of your feedback.
Obviously, NextFitness doesn’t do “canned” workouts, so your workouts are built from our expert system to match what you are doing on a specific [...]

DRM is Dead! (But It Might Cost You)


Today, Apple announced that they are dropping DRM from all of their music! We’ve spent three years railing against the way DRM locks you out of using your music the way you want (including with your workouts), so it’s a joyous day for NextFitness members.
Around here, we still love Amazon MP3, but if you’ve got a [...]

Yep, we’re changing our name.


So our multi-year lawsuit with Apple is settled. After spending a lot of time and money defending our right to use the name “Pod”, we came to a settlement.
After the coin toss, it was decided that we’d have to change our name.*
The fact is, after 3 1/2 years, we’re no longer just a “downloadable iPod [...]