“The idea of fitting your entire music collection into a single device the size of a packet of cigarettes might have seemed outlandish 15 years ago. But that was before the iPod. Now, one Google exec is predicting the iPod will lead a further media transformation of similar magnitude in the coming decade,” Jo Best reports for Silicon.com.
“Speaking at the FT World Communications Conference, Nikesh Arora, Google’s VP of European operations, told delegates that, in the coming years, the plummeting price of storage and its increasing volume-to-size ratio will give iPods almost unlimited potential to hold music and video,” Best reports.
Best reports, “Arora said, by 2012, iPods could launch at similar prices to those on sale now and yet be capable of holding a whole year’s worth of video releases. Around 10 years down the line that could be expanded, creating iPods that can hold all the music ever sold commercially. He said: ‘In 12 years, why not an iPod that can carry any video ever produced?'”
Full article here.
Or at least a wireless network connection with the ability to access all of that content?!?!
and the zune will be holding up ///a pile of pooo…or is it a pile of zuneservice
iPods will propell us all to the moon to shop at the Lunar Apple store by the year 2050 ~ bet me!
I don’t think that you’ll even find an iPod that will carry all porn ever produced, much less all video ever produced.
Lunar? Try the Mars Apple Store. Specials on red iPods.
I saw a Zune in a Best Buy store yesterday. I cracked up. It’s FUGLY. Not only that, but other than me, NOBODY was looking at the Zunes. Not a single person. The iPod aisles, on the other hand, was jam packed with rabid buyers.
There was also about five times as much aisle space dedicated to iPod SKINS as was dedicated to Zunes. This is on Zune’s highly vaunted opening week.
DOA, baby.
By 2020, it’ll be an implant.
With all five senses on board. Storage capcity will no longer be looked at that way….AAA will rule: anything, anywhere, anytime. The point where local storage ends, and remote begins will be gray, and unconscious.
We will create alter cyber-egos, and all achieve nascent immortality. Except, of course, the poor suckers who went down the “Dark Path,” and chose Zune.
The Zunists.
They will travel into the night.
you’re right MacMental. Definitely Mars. Fortunately the only place anyone will be able to buy Zune will be on Uranus… squirt.
‘In 12 years, why not an iPod that can carry any video ever produced?'”
I think at that point the iPod would become self-aware and subsequently kill itself.
All the history of man reduced to a storage device the size of a pack of gum. How many years for that?
One Click wheel to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, And in the darkness bind them
OK, 12 years ago I was advanced because I had an 8x CD-ROM drive and a 250MB HDD on my PowerMac 7100/66. My roommate and I were freaking out because we read that Trent Reznor used 1GB drives to record “The Downward Spiral.”
Where will we be in 12 years? Who knows. I honestly don’t think he’s thinking big enough.
Great magic word – “progress”
Dear Google,
I am applying for the post of “VP of European Operations”. You will see from my resume that I have spent most of my career in the highly-skilled area of Making Impressive But Meaningless Predictions. One of my greatest achievements was stating that by 2007 we will all be living on the moon and driving hover cars to work – a prediction which I still hold to be true, and which was picked up by a number of syndicated news feeds when I made it in 1997.
Thank you for your consideration.
Yours,
Nikesh Arora
Apple better find a better way to search through all those several bazillion files than a mini scroll wheel.
I was lucky enough to find a Nintendo Wii and I personaly think that this product is so awsome it could have been made by Apple. Very Apple like design and simplicity of operating. Very very nice product, a Japanese iPod. I think something like a mix of iPod and Wii could hold the TV in 10 years. Apple should buy Nintendo.
@ Frogmella: You hit the nail on the head. This ‘prediction’ is like saying by 2012 I’ll be – drum role, please – 6 years older! Most likely my hair will be grayer, and I’ll have lost some. Or a lot. And my skin won’t look as young and elastic as it does now. Or I could possibly just be dead … you know … whichever comes first.
I can’t believe how much some people get paid for what little they do these days.
I wouldn’t mind being able to store every video ever produced on an iPod, as long as it had Adam Sandler blocking capabilities. No one should have to endure any of his movies.
‘Apple iPod will hold all the world’s TV in 12 years’
Too bad there won’t be any network TV worth watching by then.
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Maybe Pixar can get into TV, bringing some talent and magic back.
“I can’t believe how much some people get paid for what little they do these days.”
You think he’s being paid to make these worthless quotes? Wow. Gee.. I wonder if he does anything else the other 364 days of the year…
Nahhhh…
I was just out doing repair on a cruise ship. I took my 60 gig video iPod and played movies from it throughout the ship. The cruise director said “where’s that coming from?”. I showed her, She was in awe. Then I showed her I had over a 100 movies with me. She was blown away.
Next week I’m heading to New Zealand to install a pair of iPod Nanos which will provide all the background music on another cruise ship.
Anchors away AAPL.
How far things have come from “1000 songs in your pocket”.
Not a very good prediction, based on historical trends.
The hard drive market, at its best, was able to achieve double capacity every 1.5 years. At that rate, in 12 years, we’ll have 2^8, or 256, times our current iPod capacity. That’s hardly the entire world’s video. It is, however, enough to hold most people’s entire personal collection of video.
There’s a man who doesn’t do his math and therefore is making unrealistic predictions for Google. A more realistic prediction for “all the world’s video” on a single iPod is probably 20-25 years. Of course, I won’t complain if it happens sooner.
Interesting speculation, but this guy is drastically overestimating the quality of commercial music and video if he imagines that anyone in his or her right mind would want to store “everything ever made” on their own personal player.
and we will still be wating for the iPhone…
does he not realize how much video content is going to be created in the next twelve years? look at youtube alone..
So when will we see cruise ships and hotel rooms equipped so that a customer simply docks their iPod so they get sound within the room and an automatic connection to the TV to playback video? Or when will minivans have an iPod connection so that junior can playback Barney on the flip down screen rather than having to put in a DVD?