Time Magazine’s Wilson Rothman, in naming Apple’s new 4G iPod their “Gadget of the Week,” writes, “The latest one is, without being contradictory, both a modest hop forward and a complete overhaul… you should know that internally the new iPod is a ground-up reconstruction, and its really compelling applications – the ones that very well might get the goat of anyone unable or unwilling to upgrade – are still secret. All that Apple is saying is that there’s more to this than what’s being publicized.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Word on the street is that the new 4G iPods can also do top-notch card tricks that would make both Penn and Teller cry their eyes out over their inadequacy.
That Eric mentioned at the end of the article? That was me!
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PortalPlayer has already released information on their new firmware. The iPod’s OS is based on this. For information that the unveiled in January go here:
http://www.portalplayer.com/news-and-events/photo_jukebox.htm
So much for “secrets”!
thinkdifferent: the best benefit of the “pizza box” everything-behind-the-screen-hang-on-the-wall design will be for the day keyboards are passe’ because voice recognition / voice recitation software works well enough to become standard issue. Why sit infront of your computer reading your email when your computer can read it to you while you’re working on another task? Save the screen for graphics instead of text. “One day” . . . one day may be sooner than we think – Jobs sure knows how to keep a secret and how long have his miracle-workers had to work on something that revolutionary???
And an ipod that could serve as the mic / speaker with a little wireless wizardry so you could dictate from anywhere in the house.