“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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Any clues Harper
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I think video on the Pod would be cool providing you can plug it into a TV. Pointless watching a movie on a 2 inch screen. Although if you’re ship wrecked in the middle of nowhere it’s better than nothing.
Mike from Italy-
If you read my post correctly, you would notice that I never wrote that the commercial was for an iPod video. It’s called an insinuation. If that’s your interpretation, then it’s just that, an interpretation and I can’t help that. I am a big Apple fan, but, I’m not exactly worried about the “millions” of dollars you say Apple stands to lose by what my friend told me. No specs were given out or the like. The NDA on the other hand, point taken and made.
BTW, no need to flame my man, you don’t even know me. I’m just sharing information, because that’s the type of world we live in….an INFORMATION society.
I hope someday Steve will make delivering video content as fast as down loading from iTune. Then I can watch it on my Mac. The only bad thing is that this would mean that Steve Jobs and his cult of Macheads would essentially rule how video content is delivered to world (yep, even porno). This also would make Apple very powerful. It might even change television forever eliminating the legacy networks like NBC.
Heh, that is not a bad idea! (Gonna buy more Apple stock.)
Per Harper: “I’m just sharing information, because that’s the type of world we live in….an INFORMATION society.”
That is extraordinarily immature logic!
Guns are legal, but that doesn’t mean you can shoot anyone one you want.
Building a fire for a BBQ is legal, but you can’t burn down your neighbor’s house.
You can have wine for dinner, but you can’t drive drunk.
Merely because it is a trait of the world we live in, doesn’t mean that people have the liberty to abuse it if it could harm others; physically or financially.
When people talk about this “information age”, they are referring to one of the new driving forces of the economy. To warp a socio-economic theory into a reason to perpetrate damage is one of the most feeble excuses to feed your ego-centric desire to appear important. Only when you place your ego aside, will the world benefit from the space you are occupying.
QUOTATION:”I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. It cannot be so easily discovered if you allow him to remain silent and look wise, but if you let him speak, the secret is out and the world knows that he is a fool. So it is by the exposure of folly that it is defeated; not by the seclusion of folly, and in this free air of free speech men get into that sort of communication with one another which constitutes the basis of all common achievement.”
ATTRIBUTION:WOODROW WILSON, “That Quick Comradeship of Letters,” address at the Institute of France, Paris, May 10, 1919.—The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd, vol. 5, p. 484 (1927). [http://www.bartleby.com/73/681.html]
Really? You’re sitting there listening to your iPod — say at the car wash, or on the subway — and you wouldn’t want to look down at that crisp little screen and watch the video too? Baloney.
Nobody is suggesting people will be glued to their tiny screens as a primary form of visual entertainment. But it would be really cool if you could just dial up whatever video or movie clip you want and watch it on the go.
MW = Lived; as in clearly you haven’t, at least not outside your dark little den.