“Ok, it’s time for some last-minute rumor mongering. A little birdie just flew into TUAW headquarters (a little birdie who wishes to remain anonymous) and told us the following. Remember, this is all rumor, folks, but it sounds like it could be legit to us,” Dave Caolo writes for TUAW.
iTunes version 7.0, Movie Store with content from Disney, Pixar, and other studios, new metal iPod nano, widescreen bluetooth touchscreen iPod, “TubePort” USB wireless dongle, and more are discussed in the full article over on TUAW here.
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These anonymous sources always seem to have things screwed up a bit, we’ll find out soon enough.
believe it when i see it
if I repeat iPhone 10 times it will happen… Right?
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Or.. do I have to spit too…
MDN magic word: when.. oh when do we get the iPhone?
The pricing structure in the article doesn’t sound like Steve. Too complicated.
Apple is not going to sell a product called Tube Port. A resting place for your dongle to be sure…
Like most rumors they’re probably going to have some small foundation in fact.
Looks believable to me
My wife has a tube port.
About 10 years ago, rumors spread through the North Korean military of a coup in progress.
Turns out the rumors were instigated by Kim Jong-Il loyalists within the military. They wanted to see who was loyal and whom they whould execute.
Spoof rumor…whomoever Jobs gave this memo to will be fired this afternoon.
Lol Your Daddy! All i hope is Apple bring out something innovative and something that i can afford!
i prefer ‘teleport’ over ‘tubeport.’
Watch a movie that is being streamed to my TV via TubePort? Not with my lousy cable service. The constant breaks in transmission would drive me crazy (yeah, it’s a short drive). I have never been able to watch a streaming video without frequent, irritating breaks.
I’ve seen all of these before and they do seem to include only the likely ones. It’s now only a bit under 3 hours to “showtime,” so why bother speculating any more? We will know shortly.
TubePort? Stupid name and a very “unApple-like” concept. Why not just add video to Airport Express (which is what will happen)?
Bluetooth on an iPod? Why exactly would you want that except for PDA syncing, which we know is not going to happen? BT is too slow and eats battery life….marginally usuable for music, but won’t work for video, obviously.
Tubeport? Isn’t that from a cheesey 50s sci-fi movie?
“We’re in a hurry, better take the Tubeport!”
i’ve had a read of the supposed tubeport and to be honest, it doesn’t sound very apple like to me
Does USB have the bandwidth for video transmission.
Isn’t ethernet far more efficient?
Tubeport my ass… wait, that doesn’t sound right.
so the content will never be on the end user’s HD?
” The movie is accessed on your Mac via an iDisk-like storage component hosted by Apple.”
That model will have a difficult time succeeding. You can buy a DVD cheaper and have less headaches than paying $19.99 and having decent quality contenet streamed to your TV. Even at $14.99 that is too much if I can’t watch it on my laptop while traveling. And I buy Disney movies for the kids. How are they going to watch it while traveling? Not on the MiniVan’s DVD player which I spent good money on? They would have to allow DVD burning for people to buy Disney/Pixar Movies to entertain children while traveling.
I don’t buy it. First of all, Tubeport? That’s a ridiculous name (although it did make for some hilarious jokes on this thread)! Apple wouldn’t do that. Second, the pricing scheme isn’t competitive with Amazon, and it has to be. Third, the way that “Tubeport” works doesn’t make sense. The movie is stored on an iDisk, and then transfered wirelessly through USB? Sounds like someone didn’t think that through. What kind of compression are they using that you’d be able to use USB for this? If the compression is that good, why not have the movie download to the HD? Nope. Nice try, but I don’t think so. I hope there’s some kind of “Tubeport” product, but I don’t think it’s gonna work like this.
I think their little bird is the sandwich guy!
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put your movies on your new widescreen (or even 5G) iPod. there should be some kind of hookup between the cars DVD player and the iPod.
your argument was also made 5 years ago when the original iPod came out. people couldn’t think outside the box. oh, and when apple dropped the floppy disk drive, again people were upset…
apple is always on the cutting edge. it may not seem great at first, but as time passes their “ideas” seem to be genius. go on youtube and watch the original iPod announcement. I think there were like 20 people in this classroom watching steve pull out the biggest technological breakthrough in portable music since the walkman. weird. no one had a clue how big it was going to be. same thing as today’s announcement.
movies stored on .mac and streamed…genius. if you can pay a monthly subscription to watch any movies stored online…wow.