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MEDIA CENTER PC NEWSOctober 5th 2005 This Time Surely It's The Video iPod
Regular readers of MediaCenterPCWorld.com will be aware of our obsession with the mythical Video iPod, or more accurately, the lack of it. Before the last Apple press conference we confidently predicted that Apple would not be wasting people's time with an iTunes mobile phone, which they consequently did. We completely failed to predict the arrival of the iPod nano, but then, so did everyone else. This time, the word on the street is swinging towards the Video iPod becoming a reality, but perhaps with a twist. The tagline for the event is "One more thing....", a reference to Steve Jobs' now famous habit of starting a press conference with some dry facts and figure (or a boring old iTunes phone) before uttering that phrase and whipping out another weapon in the Apple armoury of must-have gadgets. This tagline is so self-knowing and self-congratulatory that this time the announcement is going to be a biggy. Perhaps. If Apple produced a Video iPod that was nothing more than a portable media center - an iPod with a large screen - then Steve Jobs' insistence that he did not like the idea of an iPod that plays movies would seem a little daft. No, the Video iPod will have to do things differently. If we knew what that was then we would be working at Apple, but we have a sneaking suspicion that we might be about to see an innovative way of getting the movies onto a TV screen or monitor - a truly portable media center. For the sake of completeness we also ought to report on the other two rumours doing the rounds - a new Shuffle (yawn) or an Apple Digital Video Recorder (yay! but unlikely). MediaCenterPCWorld.com has NOT been invited to the Apple event, but then we couldn't afford the plane fare anyway. |
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