“Michael Gartenberg, vice president and research director of JupiterResearch of Jupitermedia Corp., said he is refraining from making any wild speculations. ‘We’ll have to wait until Wednesday to see who is correct,’ he said. He also expressed skepticism about the possibility that a video iPod will be unveiled,” Daniel Drew Turner reports for eWeek. “‘There are very few companies other than Apple that can generate so much buzz from an announcement,’ Gartenberg said. Still, he cautioned against reading too much into the announcement: ‘With Apple,’ he said, ‘the more you deviate from mainstream products, such as speculating about an Apple PDA or tablet, the less likely you are to be correct. That’s not to say a video iPod isn’t possible,’ he added, ‘it’s just less likely.'”
“Gartenberg noted that when talking about a video iPod, ‘it would be interesting to see how Apple could overcome the lack of legal content.’ He said that movies and other video content are not the same, technically, as music,” Turner reports. “‘Unless Apple has a solution to that problem, it’s unlikely for Apple to have a product to appeal to a small group of hobbyists,’ he said. He agreed that an iPod that could display videos could be used to share homemade iMovie clips, ‘but that’s not mass market,’ he said. ‘Of course,’ he added, ‘Steve Jobs is also the head of a movie studio.'”
Turner reports, “‘I fully expect that when Jobs says, ‘One more thing,’ it’s something of import,’ Gartenberg said. Though, he noted, the import may not be because the product is revolutionary. ‘The iPod Nano was a flash-based player, but it was more than just a flash-based player,’ he said. ‘Even line refreshes can be significant.'”
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