“Apple Computer Inc. has e-mailed invitations to reporters for a special event next week, prompting speculation on the Internet that the company would unveil a long-rumored iPod that can display videos,” Duncan Martell reports for Reuters. “The invitation from Apple, which is notoriously tight-lipped about its future products, said simply: ‘One more thing…'” Apple declined to comment beyond the invitation.
Martell reports, “Many analysts have said Apple is all but certain to introduce a version of the No. 1 digital music player that can also play video. Most models of the current iPods, in addition to playing music, can also display photos and perform other functions with accessories that are sold separately. ‘There’s a whole generation coming up that doesn’t have a lot in their checking account but will some day, who think this is a cool idea,’ said Roger Kay, president of market research firm Endpoint Technology Associates, referring to a video iPod. ‘It would be a very Jobsian move to say it’s stupid and bring one out anyway,’ Kay said, referring to an iPod that plays video. Kay added that Apple would need to have wrapped up agreements with major studios and record labels over copyright protection and antipiracy technology similar to its FairPlay digital rights management software used in iPods and on its iTunes online music store.”
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i hope the analyst are wrong as ususal. As much as I think a vPod woud be a sort of cool novelty, I tend to agree with what Jobs has siad along about about the practicality of watching movies that way. Frankly, I think the vPod idea is too small and unimaginative for a “one more thing” announcement. I will not venture a guess as to what it will be. I just hope Apple hasn’t copped out and comes up with something a little more spectacualar and “insanely great” as a just a white, Apple version of the PSP.
This does it. I’ve had it. The suspense being with Apple is killing me..I’m switching back to Windows….!
Prediction: Totally out of blue. MS licenses iTune, Fairplay and QuickTime. WMA player will support these formats. The audio format war has ended. iTMS set to become the only legal music download service.
>definately>
Yes it will definitely or dafinately or deffinitely be sumthink knew.
I am not sure what is coming next week but I am of the opinion that an Intel based product will debut PRIOR TO the first Mac based computer system. Steve will hold true to his word that the first Mac system won’t appear before the middle of 2006-BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE A LEAD IN BEFORE THAT DATE THAT INVOLVES INTEL AND A NEW DIGITAL PRODUCT.
Mike – I don’t agree that a apple iPod video is viable as a single device.
PSP is great for movies – great screen. not so good for music. Sound quality isn’t brilliant and volume is pathetic. But it does games and is therefore a good kids travel companion for the car etc.
So why combine iPod with Video. It’s as useless as mobiles with cameras – a 5 minute wonder.
The Nano is so small why would you want to combine it wit anything else. Most people have less than 5 gigs of music on their iPods – even if they splash out on a 20/30/40/60 Gig version.
Any iPodvideo would have to sell on its own merits and if you are listening to music most times you are walking, bussing, cycling etc. not static and in a position to look at a screen; so why carry around a big device with a screen?
they just released the nano.
and now a video ipod? that pisses me off as a new nano user. i just bought one thing and now they might come out with something bigger and better. apple is going to get burned in the long run, they are going to run out of ideas and push to many new products onto the market. they should wait until atleast mid-november for another release and that is still even to soon.
they need to spread things out so when vista comes out they keep people interested in apple. even though an ipod has nothing to do with vista they still need to generate news. to much to soon. the resurgence of apple is headed to the fad category rrrrreal quick, i give it until after the mactel’s come out. then apple will be doneso 6 month to a year after.
Bring back the eMate with Ive style, modern innards, a special version of Tiger, a color screen and built-in cellular wireless connectivity. And either a wind-up battery charger or a tiny nuclear fission reactor. Bridging the gap for more gadgets with widgets?
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Apple is about to upstage MS with a device intro that is going to rock the video world. There is no way it will compete directly with the new iPod nano. As was mentioned on another thread, Steve will pull a remote control out of his pocket and press a button, the theater screen will open and the lights will dim…
one more thing…
suggests something big not just upgraded computers
ipod video that plugs into any TV mb
think of a portable movie archive that plugs into any TV
of course ppl will want to have/use that
the future – 10 terabyte flash ipod 10 000 movies or 1 000 000 songs
napster cheif complains ‘who can afford to fill an ipod for $1 000 000’
radiomoscow: “napster chief complains ‘who can afford to fill an ipod for $1 000 000′”
Very funny!
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you guys are all way off.
There’s something to be said against a major iPod announcement if only because of the recent release of the nano. As it is, Apple is currently milking the first adopter elements of the faithful and frivolous with the nano. The same first adopters that purchased the nano are hardly going to spring immediately for another iPod device unless it has a completely different function. A vPod with the major benefit being the video out and playback on a small screen doesn’t seem like the “must have” device that would drive those who already dropped a couple hundred dollars on a nano to shill out again.
That being said, it seems unlikely that the Apple Media Store would be launched without a corresponding device or that they would have a special media event for simple speed bumps.
My humble prediction:
Whatever Apple does, they will not release a device that is simply an upgraded iPod or new high-end movie-capable media player. If the release is hardware it will be radically different in terms of function (like the ROTN: Return of the Newton) or a tablet Mac or something along those lines. I could easily see a Apple Media Store being introduced to get people comfortable with videocasting and buying short films/music videos, though, again, absent a vPod, it doesn’t seem typical of Apple’s strategy of the past.
The gimme’s of the event are upgrades of at least several lines (long needed) and possibly an upgrade of some software (Pages 2 or something along those lines…)
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Spouse,
Is it osx86?
The spyware- virus killer-that-also-does-windows?
I see a whole series of ginsu style ads.
You know the ones, the people who are trying to operate the competition’s product they seem to have nueral-motor disorders; then they operate the ginsu and pow! like a scalpel in the hand of a nueral surgeon.
There’s more where that came from. Can your significant other get me a job in marketing?
mw= size size the day?
hi i would like to know how to download music to the psp i have gone to every sie in the world but i still can not find it so send back if you dont know how either that is ok i will just go to game stop and ask them