Apple will debut “wireless-capable iPods” next Wednesday along with “wireless iTunes Store sales,” enabling users to buy content “directly from iPod, iPhone,” a single source often familiar with Apple’s digital content plans tells MacDailyNews.
The “new iPods will definitely be Mac OS X-based,” according to the source. “Prepare to be stunned [with] iPod’s new capabilities.”
MacDailyNews Note: This is a rumor. We have no other information. We cannot confirm this information independently at this time, but felt it plausible enough to bring to your attention. Do you think Apple will actually remove the computer* from the iTunes+iPod/iPhone (/Apple TV?) equation?
*Traditional desktop and notebook computers.
they have to do it whether they wanted to or not.
Apple is creative enough to keep iTunes on computers relevant.
More features on itunes. Maybve a deal with Netflix for video rental downloads (or Apple’s own)
I don’t believe rumors, as if they are wrong, they lead to upset. We will just have to wait and see.
They wouldn’t be removing the computer from the equation MDN. It still takes servers and routers on their end to make the transaction work. Geeesh!!!
Thanks everyone, your complete stupidity has now run so amok that our fine hosts here are now infected, I hate you all.
jarrettnewsdaily,
You make me extra tired. Narcoleptic, in fact.
MDN means on the user’s end, you fscktard.
Silly. No I don’t think they’ll remove the computer from the equation.
Thems computers in thems iPods!
jarrettnewsdaily, obviously, MDN meant removing the computer from the CUSTOMER’S viewpoint!
When talking about stupidity, it is incumbent upon one to be sure one isn’t looking in the mirror!
This is what I mean be stupidity, of course that is what MDN meant. You all are the same people who actually believe that Zune Tang is a real windows lover, when in fact he is a mac user. I swear, all of your parents must be really proud.
It makes perfect sense if the new iPods are powered by OS X. The iPhone is an iPod in part, after all. It also means that across their entire product line, there’s One OS To Rule Them All
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I think that Apple will continue to amaze us for some time to come.
=:~)
Damnit! Can’t we just be surprised anymore?? It’s such a buzz kill to know exactly what Stevo has in store for us! Ugh! It’s like xray vision for all your Christmas presents! Stevo will probably have some snide comment about these rumors again. I bet somebody’s making some serious money leaking that info!
MDN, I like the new end of statement for this article.
Thank you for changing that, because we would have had a bunch of people here selling their machines on Ebay and spreading the word that Apple doesn’t make computers anymore.
MDN, Thank you for saving Apple.
“Do you think Apple will actually remove the computer* from the iTunes+iPod/iPhone equation?”
If they want to have any kind of success in Japan they will have to. I say yes.
Oh, and…
ALL IPODS ARE POWERED BY OSX.
Thank you.
I don’t think that Apple will do something like that right now when there still is DRM, right now iPod and iPhone don’t worry about DRM, they just play. iTunes app is what handles the DRM stuff. To get wireless iTunes purchasing, iPods and iPhones would have to handle all the DRM encoding and stuff.
Roughlydrafted has a bunch of articles about the DRM handling in iTunes and iPod
It’s a very good question; especially if you consider the possibility of a web-based iTunes and library via .Mac.
Buying songs via iTunes on an iPod is not the tricky part it’s how they manage the rest of the iTunes library system. Does your iPod then become one of the 5 devices you’re authorised to play stuff on? how does it then sync with your main library? Currently your iPod just mirrors your main library (or at least the portion of your library you specify). It will be interesting to see how they do it.
I think that Apple has been working on this for a while now. They added the ability to copy purchased content from your iPod to all of your authorized computers. This could be awesome. But what about the AppleTV.
Three iPods for the masses plugged in their ears
Five Macs nice and shiney all in a row
One iPhone for mortal man – we want more next year
One OS to rule them
One OS to find them
One OS to bring them all
and in the (MS) darkness bind them
In the land of Macintosh where the computers are
Your Rollover Expanding Ads are working GREAT on my
iPhone guys. Keep-up the good work.
Hope you’re making tons of money…
Thanks again in advance,
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FWIW, here’s my two cents….
Yes, the focus of the announcement will be a phoneless IPhone–a wifi-enabled OSX iPod. It will be a multitouch OSX based black on silver device slightly shorter and slightly less width than the iPhone. Here’s why:
If you arrange the capabilities of the iphone in order of complexity the natural break comes after mobile connectivity. See the chart below (which may or may not be readable once I send it–some vowels eliminated to keep columns intact–my apologies in advance);
iPhone iPod1 iPod2 iPod mini shuffle
phone x – – – –
sms x – – – –
mail x x – – –
web x x – – –
map x x – – –
weather x x – – –
stocks x x – – –
youtube x x – – –
vid plybck x x x – –
calendar x x x – –
contacts x x x – –
clock x x x – –
calc x x x – –
notes x x x – –
pictures x x x – –
camera x x x – –
mus. titles x x x x –
music x x x x x
price point 500 350 250 150 75
market phone+ wi-fi vid player music sndtrack
formfactor rect long rect short no chng no chng no chng
bodycolors blk/alum blk/alum yes yes yes
multitouch yes yes no no no
OSX yes yes no no no
scr. wheel no no yes yes no
memory 4 GB 4 GB 80 GB 2GB 1 GB
Everything from mail on down can be done when you’re at a hot spot. This eliminates the components for mobile phonecalling and the expensive contract with a phone company. So the new device should fit nicely in the big price and component gap between the iPhone and the current iPod.
That’s the iPod’s new niche and fits seamlessly with the iPhone’s 2G phone capability and wi-fi internet dependence. This is a very Apple type move–as it gives added capability to their leading edge of the iPod line without it really being anything that hasn’t been done before. Because it shows video it will have a similar surround as the iPhone but to make it distinctive it will be slightly smaller–and form following function, doesn’t need to reach from mouth to ear. Their price points will remain the same with memory bumps for the older models and the new model coming in between the iPhone and the existing iPod price.
This new model will be aimed at everyone who can’t (or don’t) want to afford the $2500 required by the iPhone purchase but want access to the rest of the iPhone goodness. That’s certainly a large segment of the population but the most interesting point too this is that it will be perfect for the teenage male market. So my secondary guess is that we will also start to see this new device emerge as a gaming platform.
btw, I am aware that there are some additional capabilities in the iPod’s operating system such as games, etc.but these are so limited that I did not choose to make them equivalent in the chart to the very useful items in the OSX versions of these tools on the iPhone.
So that’s my prediction. Oh, and the Beatles catalogue on iTunes, too. Paul McCartney to sing.
Arthur Dent
oh well, my chart is pretty unreadable. the first line is:
iPhone/iPod 1/iPod 2/iPod mini/shuffle
and then every thing below lines up underneath that….
Arthur Dent
Jarrett, you make some valid points; yes, some people miss your sarcasm. But aren’t you painting with a rather broad brush, calling us all idiots? So, on that note, go hug a root. Elitist fsck.
I suggested this back in 2001 on a MacObserver forum soon after the launch of iPod, another of my suggestions was iPods in cars
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But then we always think of features we might like, implementing them is the tricky part.
If this is true about the wireless downloading to the iPod, I think Apple wants to do this to keep people buying from the iTunes store.
From your home computer you can have a choice of your own CD’s or other downloading sites and from the iPod it will most likely have only one source to be able to buy content.
Especially since Universal is letting other stores sell DRM free music to take the iPod out of the equation.
But, this will not happen any time soon because the iPod is and will always be the best and coolest looking media player.
Thanks Arthur…. that made it real understandable. ;-p
This scenario sounds plausible. If you purchase a song(s) on your iPod or iPhone, iTunes on your Mac/PC will sense that the next time you connect (wired or wireless), and then would transfer the song(s) to your main library. You are then free to remove the song from your iPod/iPhone.
It sounds like an easy preference setting: Remove purchased music on next sync Yes/No.