Thursday, October 27, 2005

Is the Apple iPod video worth it?

I must admit the Apple iPod video player looks really nice, and it's much thinner than the regular iPod. CNet video shows this player and it almost has the form factor of the iPod nano. So what's next for the next generation iPod? And with so many different accessories that you can now add to the iPod, it's really spawned the iPod generation X. Can the iPod get any better? Would it be worth to put in Bluetooth or 802.11? Motorola has tried to blend iPod and a cell phone with the Rokr but it really hasn't done too well.

Will the iPod become a PDA, a reincarnated Newton? Remember, the Apple Newton, the first PDA before Palm came out. The iPod has some bit of PDA functionality, so it could become a PDA. But to stick with Apple's design and philosophy, it should be simple and should be designed well for one particular purpose. And for the iPod that is music or in the new iPod video. Once, you try to cater to other functionality, you will lose something. You can't have a all-in-one swiss army knife of gadgets.

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