Sirius Confirms iPod Satellite Talks

An anonymous reader writes "Remember those iPod Satellite rumors last December? Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio, announced at the 2005 Media Summit that he had discussions with Steve Jobs about the possibility of putting Sirius' technology in future iPods. Steve's response? Not interested."

Comments

Re:Ladies and Gentlemen

[Anonymous Coward]

And slashdot editors: Mac Shills...

This is SO last night

[jkmiecik]

Looks like slashdot is picking up Ars Technica's sloppy seconds.

Re:iTunes Says Moo (Mu?)

[Fletch]

iTunes Says Moo

I think maybe you meant "mu"?

aBITCH

[Anonymous Coward]

since3 we made the but i'd rather hear

Re:iTunes Says Moo

[Anonymous Coward]

omg teh ipod is so graet

i wish i wuld be steve apple so i could invent all teh graet things like the nuton and teh mac and teh ipod and teh macosx and evrythink

so graet

raelley.

almost as graet like windows ex pee

appel is really geting closed to mircosfot

Re:Ladies and Gentlemen

[VeryProfessional]

Steve Jobs, the Prince Charles of the tabloid computer industry

Steve Jobs is marrying Camilla Parker-Bowls???

Re:Hey dudes, there is this thing called competiti

[CountBrass]

And that's why the iPod is so great: it doesn't have all this silly fluff: FM radio *LOL*, OGG (who cares), mics (yeah that's really important in a music player) but the biggest piece of fluff and the one that proves they miss the point complete is: video. Video ahahahahahahaha!

Replacable batteries sound like a good idea, except that they add to the size and require catches and covers that can get lost or broken. And of course if Apple did change to replacable batteries I've no doubt the Yugo drivers would all start whinging about how Apple makes so much money on all the accessories.

Any MP3 player is a luxury item. The iPod is at the top of the heap and the reason you pay more is principally great design: and part of that great design is realising less is more: something the component-assemblers at Creative et al still haven't figured out.