“Web sites that traffic in rumors about forthcoming products from the notoriously tight-lipped Apple have been buzzing for more than a year about a video iPod,” Duncan Martell reports for Reuters. “What Jobs may have up his sleeve is a music video download service or the like that is seamlessly integrated into the iTunes online music store and the iTunes digital music jukebox software, analysts said.”
“If Jobs and company can pull that off — delivering a way to buy and manage video content as easily as with iTunes — then there may well be a market for personal media players, analysts said. ‘If indeed someone could bring a service to market to go along with this device that was as drop-dead simple as the iPod iTunes interface, then perhaps there is a market,’ Van Baker, an analyst at industry research firm Gartner said. That may be why, analysts said, Apple has waited this long before rolling out what could be called a video iPod, while it works out all the kinks. Wall Street analysts have already said the company could introduce such a device as soon as September,” Martell reports.
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