| iPod Video - more signs about a long running rumour? |
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| Written by Philip Roy | |
| Sunday, 17 July 2005 | |
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As I commented in the report on Ihnatko's presentation... "One area that got me interested though was his comments about QuickTime
and the iTunes music store. Ihnatko said that we should not ignore the
significance of the fact that many of the latest music clips (such as
the extended U2 clip recently released) have been distributed via the
iTunes interface. He sees this as Apple testing future functionally.
Why, he asked, would you send everyone to the iTunes store to download
a music clip, unless you wanted to see the results? His argument is that Apple are quietly working towards the ability to download music clips from iTunes. And why not? It already has the structure in place to allow us to purchase music, so why not video? However, he expressed a lot of caution. He said that he doesn't believe that we will see a video-based iPod for a long time. Why? Not because it isn't possible, but because Apple never release products that don't tie in with and justify other work. He believes that there will be no "iPod Video' until Apple release a better way to transfer video between a Mac and the iPod....and he thinks that iMovie is not that mechanism."
Mac Rumours (www.macrumors.com) reports on a number of recent
events and commentaries that suggest video is on the mind of an Apple
Computer, where the iPod has become the front runner in its suite of
hardware items available.
"...I'm going to do something that I almost never do: spill insider
information from unnamed sources that I can confirm are in a position
to know the score. ....[why] did Apple really jump ship for Intel? Was it performance, or performance per watt, as Jobs claimed in his keynote speech, or were there other, unmentioned factors at work?"
Speaking about Intel's XScale, Stokes comments...
"If you think XScale is too powerful for the iPod??it's used in powerful
color PDAs??then you're not taking the device seriously enough as a
portable media platform. The XScale is plenty powerful enough to do
video playback, and I have reason to believe that Apple is currently
working on a video iPod to counter the Sony PSP. (My guess is that we
might even see it in time for Christmas.) When the video iPod hits the
streets, Apple will have an iPod product that plays each of the media
formats (music, pictures, video) represented in its iLife suite."
Robert X. Cringely supports this idea in his column "There's More to
the Apple/Intel Deal Than Even Bob Thought At First"
(http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714.html)
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Back in late October of last year, I had the opportunity while at a conference in Santa Clara, to attend a 
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