“Even Apple’s constituents are expecting a new video-enabled iPod by the end of the year,” Michael Singer writes in the CNET Apple Blog. “Representatives with Microsoft and Texas Instruments recently said Apple will more than likely be one of two companies announcing portable video players before the end of January 2006; creating yet another new trend in multi-function gadgets. ‘From a chip standpoint there is no reason that they couldn’t release a video iPod,’ Doug Rasor, TI’s vice president and strategic marketing manager said during the company’s recent ‘Toy Tour’ press junket in San Francisco. Apple has widely been expected by insiders and enthusiasts to release a video-enabled iPod in September.”
“Despite its public dismissal of a video iPod, Apple has left the iPod evolution door wide open ever since last year’s release of the iPod photo with a color screen,” Singer writes. “More recently, Apple started tinkering with selling video clips on its iTunes Music Store and included the mention of the word video in some patents filed in 2004. Even Microsoft is predicting a video iPod by year’s end. Erik Huggers, a senior director with Microsoft’s Windows client division said Microsoft fully expects a video-enabled iPod and that Apple should expect Microsoft to rally its own troops in the next few months.”
Full article here.
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If microsoft says it, it MUST be true…
” . . . Microsoft fully expects a video-enabled iPod and that Apple should expect Microsoft to rally its own troops in the next few months.”
AHHHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Texas Instruments is still around? How’s the TI-99 selling these days?
“troops” = patent lawyers
Winston guess you haven’t heard. TI owns a the patent on a little thing called the LCD projection TV. Plus yes the TI 99 probably makes a few bucks since probably over 50% of high schoolers have one of these 90$ calculator/mini computers
“Microsoft to rally its own troops in the next few months”… just as they have done with the iPod.
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Uh-oh…they’re gonna rally their “troops”. I’m getting visions of Don Knotts, the Three Stooges, and Abbott & Costello all dressed in fatigues with patches reading “Plays For Sure” on the arms. Scary!
video iPod? What’s taking them so long?
… they know darn well there’s no video iPod, because ALMOST nobody actually wants one… and so they want to make sure Apple takes some bad PR for not delivering!
OK, I’m too paranoid. My bad.
winston:
only an idiot would think TXN is going out of business.
it’s been on a bull run since the september 04.
it has a market cap of over 53 billion dollars
friggin tool.
Hey Jay – Yeah, TI is “still around”
If you drive a car, listen to music, have a wireless router or broadband modem, or a Digital Light Projector (DLP) TV, you could well be using a TI chip.
Texas Instruments is a semiconductor company. Their calculators were very powerful at the time and though their chips aren’t sold directly to consumers, it doesn’t mean they aren’t in many of the products you use today. TI customers are other manufacturers.
TI (ticker TXN) earns about $1Billion in revenues every month and has a market capitalization of over $50 Billion. They are also a component of the S&P 500 index.
MDN: sent
I love how MS will have an answer to what ever Apple releases in a few months after Apple releases it. Maybe MS shold leave the innovation to Apple and put out a few more service packs.
Video iPod? yeeessss pleeeaaazzze! Nice to view a tiny oh-so-cool moving postage stamp, and if it plays into a giant screen as well, so much the better. Yum!
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Uh Winston….
“DALLAS (July 25, 2005) – Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today reported revenue for the second quarter of $3239 million, up 9 percent sequentially and about even with the year-ago quarter. The sequential growth primarily was due to increased demand for the company’s analog and DSP semiconductor products. Also contributing to growth was the seasonal increase in demand for calculators from TI’s Educational & Productivity Solutions (E&PS;) business.
Operating profit of $669 million, an all-time high, reflected stronger gross profit as well as tight control of operating expenses. TI’s gross profit margin expanded 2.1 percentage points sequentially to 47.0 percent of revenue, and TI’s operating margin increased 3.9 percentage points to 20.6 percent of revenue.”
You like Tupac? I got all nine albums him! That how hard I down with Tupac!! Sucka Suckas who not down with him, I pop cap in ass!
Apple’s constituents?
Ah but will there be an iTunes phone released by Jan 2006?
Dang, MacJack beat me to it. I think they meant “competitors” or “contemporaries”.
Moo Shu – do you really think/speak in such a totally illiterate fashion or do you pretend to for our (dubious ) benefit. I’m assuming you are from the good old USA and am wondering how on earth your nation ever landed a man on the moon and at the same time spawned cretins such as you, like, and all that stuff, you know etc etc (added that last part so you will at least understand a little of this post).
You have to feel sorry for Microsoft… They have been working soooo hard at trying to make video-to-go “The Next Big Thing”.
But they have failed, and now their best argument for video-to-go is that “Apple will release a video iPod (read: “video-to-go product”) soon, and Apple is cool, therefore video-to-go is cool!”
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
Yeah, TI has a virtual monopoly on graphing calculators.
Does anyone else even sell them?
Every store sells TI’s.
Give me a DVR From Apple. I don’t want a freaking Video iPod, I want something I can watch easily on my TV. I love my Tivo but they have been screwing over its Mac customers and I want to dump them because of it.
The revelations of the new testament predict the world will be led to destruction by one man. It also foretells of a time when everyone has ‘the mark’. a mark on their hand and on their head! could this be the iPod and the headphones?
Perhaps the devil is waiting until the majority of us owns one. Then the devil can activate a subliminal message secretly stored in every iPod in the world.
I wonder how much MS gets to charge Apple for every new video iPod sold. The US Patent Office has ruled that Apple must pay MS about $10 for every iPod. There goes the profit margins.
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Magic Word: left. As in “Maybe Apple shouldn’t have LEFT an idiot in charge of the patent filing responsibilities.”
Also, weren’t TI Apple’s partners in developing first silicon for Firewire following on from their historic partnership on NuBus in the era of the Macintosh II, Quadras et al.
It’s also the IP rights holder and inventor of DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector technology, so I guess – with digital cinema coming to a multiplex near you – TI isn’t going anywhere soon.