My prediction last November warning a friend not to get the iPod Photo because a video iPod would be out in "less than a year" has been vindicated. Barely. And she paid $399 for 40GB of photos, when the same now will get you 60GB of video.
*kicks middleclasstool square in the jaw with his kung fu skillz*
chimaera, tell your friend I'm starting a support group for those of us who got the photo iPods.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've found what I want for my rapidly-approaching birthday. If you discuss getting this for me on the wiki, I promise not to look, and to act surprised when I finally get it.
Thanks in advance,
Capt. Renault.
The '07 iPod will have twice the storage, be 2/3rds the price, come in a range of colors and textures, have reclining bucket seats and a high-efficiency overhead cam V6.
*unleashes emergency industrial designer hipster*
All the more reason why I have yet to but into iPod. Suckers!!!!
oooh, I wants one...
*breaks out can of rabid hipster repellent*
No, wait, this could be interesting. How do they mount the white "eyebuds" while wearing clunky emo glasses? Science needs to know.
come[s] in a range of colors and textures
hmmm, that should make my pr0n collection all-new again, and portable besides!
anybody see the romote and the fact that it hooks up to your TV?
Also why did they ditch firewire support? That makes no sense at all.
Also that have intergrated iSight into the iMac and are shipping a remote and some sort of medai interface with it. Vesa wall mount a 20" iMac; would it be gig enough?
In fact the more I think about it the more I am thinking it won't work. I know they sell VESA mounting kits but then how do you get at the ports in the back? They should have done this upgrade to the mac mini, IMHO.
I'm pretty sure it's established that apple posts aren't Pepsi Blue, but I just wanted to check on that.
Anyone? Beuller?
*waits for all the iPod weenies who have been deriding portable video players to start announcing Apple invented the market*
Mmm, delicious Pepsi Blue.
Everything by Apple or Google is wonderful.
We never mention stuff like the Creative mp3 players that do the same exact thing for less money, or how godawful the gmail interface is (reply button is small and only at the BOTTOM?? no way to view unread messages only???)
I have to admit that even though it is absolutely beautiful, I've been positively amazed at how quickly the Nano has become common sight amongst locals, in barely a month. Be interesting to see how quickly it becomes normal to see people staring down at a videoPod on the bus.
Also why did they ditch firewire support
Just a guess, but I would bet it came down to size. It's very possible they couldn't get an integrated I/O chip that included firewire, which would have meant an extra chip on the logic board, etc. The extra space to accomodate firewire might easily have been a dealbreaker.
In personal electronics at these sizes, 1/4" is the difference between cool and klunky. A video iPod that's larger than the original is a complete buzzkill.
Fuck. Now what excuse do I have? Video, it can play it to a monitor? Damn. But it's more expensive than those cheap, clunky chinese players! And all that poisonous, candy-coated DRM! And... and... oh well..
/goes off to bathe in cold water, resists looking at Jobs altar on the hallway
Also why did they ditch firewire support
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't USB2 faster than firewire anyway? Why would they need it?
they rate about the same in pure throughput but firewire allows for controls during transfer.
*pelts LivewireConfusion with Intel chips*
Also why did they ditch firewire support?
I think it's just to annoy us PC users who went to the trouble of installing firewire cards just for the iPod.
I was toying with selling my 15 gig iPod and getting a 4 gig nano, as I found that I really don't need my whole audio library with me all the time. I tend to listen to only a handful of albums at any given time. But then Apple had to come along and muddy the waters, again...damn!
Wonder if this will throw a wrinkle in the battle between Apple and the RIAA. RIAA says raise the prices on the music, Apple says no. Now Apple has video capabilities, and two of the hottest shows out there, with more undoubtely to come. If this works out for Apple, Steve Jobs can pretty much dare the RIAA to pull their music off the iTMS. He can say, "People are coming to us in droves for content. You're getting greedy, profiting handsomely off of our work on the distribution end and you want more. People are buying what we're selling. Now that we've got video, people will be coming to us with or without you. Do you want access to our customers' cash, or no? Your call."
I'm still content with my 3G. I'm not big on the must-have-the-newest-release of everything -- the cellphone market is booming because of people that must have the greatest and newest and most silly functions -- so my firewire card (purchased specially) will remain useful for quite some time.
I watch too much TV as it is, anyway.
I don't know about ipod video. The iTunes tv downloads and front row announcement (a remote for your pc?) seem more significant to me.
hmmph.
For some reason I'm not impressed. Guess I'm still holidng out for the all-in-one iPod-PDA-phone.
That will impress me (and take my money.)
...Steve Jobs can pretty much dare the RIAA to pull their music off the iTMS
Never under-estimate the cupidity or stupidity of the record labels. Apple is nowhere near the point of saturation and dominance that would actually make the RIAA think twice about pulling their music.
In fact, I predict that not only would the RIAA pull their music, but they'd quickly work up a pretext for suing Apple as an enabler of music piracy (since everyone knows the only way to economically fill a 20GB iPod is to P2P a lot of the music).
And in such a scenario, don't think one of Apple's jealous competitors wouldn't agree to idiot terms with the RIAA in order to swipe iTunes thunder. Apple still needs the RIAA more than the RIAA thinks it needs Apple.
isn't USB2 faster than firewire anyway? Why would they need it?
Firewire is more technically sound than USB2, Apple's worked hard to support firewire as a result (up to this point), plus ditching firewire sorta flips off all those customers who bought firewire cards to enable earlier iPods.
still holidng out for the all-in-one iPod-PDA-phone
I'll bet that the manufacturers and marketers work a lot harder on getting semi-PDA functionality and perfecting the cameras in the phones before they start worrying about seriously challenging the iPod. Besides, working with North American cell providers can make the RIAA look generous.
drjimmy11: to view all unread messages in Gmail select "Show search options" at the top of the window near the search buttons. On the Search options menu, leave all options blank but go to the search pull down menu and select "Unread Mail" then hit the search mail button.
Chimaera, Mickey, sell the old iPod on Ebay for about 80% of the price of the new one ... then buy the new one ... !!! That's what I might do - checked the prices this morning and recent iPods still selling well ...
I haven't yet talked to my friend who bought an iMac last week ....
It's a surprise that Front Row isn't on the Mac Mini - hey presto media centre for a fraction of the price of what Microsoft are charging ... and much cooler too ... surely it won't be long
/applauds roryk
Bravo roryk! Pure genius...
The cat comes back, yet again!
i ♥ that cat
I haven't yet talked to my friend who bought an iMac last week ....
Not a bother. Apple has a return policy for situations like this. If your friend calls up and bitches they will exchange the iMac for a new one, I think two weeks is the limit though. I used to work for Apple and I remember getting training for that policy (I can't remember what it was called though).
...and as always when dealing with a call center call back a couple of times if you don't here what you want to hear the first time around ;-).
Can't you buy an accessory for that remote thing? I can get one for my windows machine, I probably saw it on either thinkgeek or newegg.
how godawful the gmail interface is
If you think that's bad, try the new google news reader. It's slick as hell, but plain old bloglines is 10x better.
google video link: microsoft redesigns ipod packaging
all of a sudden google video is working for me. no more of this "google video is not available in your country.
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