New video-capable iPod

bigstevemac (apparently) - 07:49am Oct 18, 2005 PST
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I've just finished watching the webcast of the latest Apple Event (I wonder
if it'll be available as a podcast...), and I was struck quite strongly by
how careful Steve Jobs was to refer to the new iPod as "a music
player....and it happens to play video." It's interesting to see that
they're refusing to call this a "video iPod." Given that the computer
front-end for the 'pod is iTunes, not any other software, and Apple's source
for content is the iTunes Music Store, it's interesting to note that the
focus is very clearly on this being a music player which, almost apropos of
not a whole lot, just seems to happen to be able to play the odd video.

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A few other things struck me about the show, too, apart from Steve's
haircut, which was there, presumably, solely to distract attention away from
Steve's trousers, which, I suspect, can be held directly responsible for
Apple's 10% share-price tumble yesterday.

No, I was more interested in the rather disappointing hard-disc capacity
that was being advertised for the new iMacs. How you're supposed to fit much
in the way of content on no more than 250MB is beyond me, but Steve did say
that h.246 is the ultimate in compression, so maybe that'll do it. And did
anyone notice the review that appeared on the U2 iTMS page that claimed to
be written by one "Paul Hewson?"

Right, then, I'll be off to the shop to buy my new 'pod. Oh, yes. I need
one. Not quite sure why I need one yet, but I know I need one.

Steve