“Here we are, nearly midway through the decade, and the tech landscape promises to be more interesting than ever. My predictions for 2005 (best enjoyed with a salt shaker handy),” Erick Schonfeld writes for Business 2.0.
Among Schonfeld’s predictions:
“Apple introduces the iPhone. Long craved by the Mac faithful, a sleek, beautiful cell phone that doubles as a digital-music player is coming soon from Apple’s iPod division. Although Steve Jobs has often dismissed the notion of such an offering because other companies are better at making phones, an already-announced but vague partnership with Motorola will allow Apple to stick to what it does best: great tech design. Expect a Motorola iPod, but with lower-capacity flash memory instead of a larger hard drive. Look also for future iPods to incorporate a satellite radio (even a regular radio would be nice),” Schonfeld writes.
Full article, with a prediction involving Podcasting, here.
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– do read the links for foreigners
At the “D” meeting this year Steve Jobs hinted that Apple had developed and killed a PDA. He was also quoted as saying that smart phones were overlapping the PDA space. If Apple were to bring out a phone a smart phone with PDA abilites and iTunes capabilities would be the perfect next step (pardon the phrase) after the iPod.
Imagine a tight sync interface with OS X, Digital Music, and maybe a camera phone that works with revised iChat on a 3G phone. Maybe it’s a pipe dream, but it could be very cool. Mr Moto could supply the necessary parts and Apple the software. The return of the Newton could be in the form of a smart phone.
I still would love to see a Newton2
even perhaps a Pippin2 but thats a little far fetched….
(magic word is building, as in, Apple is building the highway to the future)
Personally, I’d just like for my cell phone service to work more than 60% of the time. I live within a few miles of the Sprint HQ, and yet I cannot get a consistent signal to save my life. I don’t need a cellphone with video, music or the ability to take pictures; I have an iPod and a digital camera, and watching TV on a 1.5″ screen would just give me a headache. Companies like Sprint are tacking on this extra stuff to compensate for the fact that they offer lousy service.
(this post brought to you by the magic word ‘less’.)
DanK.. yeah.. I know this isn’t gonna happen, but it would be so cool if he started off by talking about the Newton years.. and saying.. these were the things people wanted to do with their Newton.. and then reveal the Motorolla iPhone with iTunes and show how really, they’re better for not building a PDA (History rewriting itself hrmph)
Seriously though, this phone might be in my price range when it comes time to update… 😀
Apple is also working on the iPodRemote (controls anything with an infared remote), the iPodSwatch (music in your watch), iPodVideo (the long awaited video iPod), the iPodBook (a G5 chip in your iPod), the iPodSat (picks up satellite video and audio), and of course the iPodDildo can’t be far off (no explanation necessary).
Geez MDN, why don’t you just create iPodDailyNews…oh, you already have.
Enough Already-
“…and of course the iPodDildo…”
Not to far off at all. There is the iBod set of photos from play boy. Know they just gotta make an attachment to plug into the earphone jack.
Hilarious beyond belief.