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More Rumblings on Apple Video iPod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Chris Holland writes "Beyond the WSJ Story, Om Malik gives us inside information obtained by Business 2.0 Magazine about the Apple Video iPod. 'Steve Jobs has spoken with Disney President and soon-to-be CEO Bob Iger about ways to license various Disney content for a video iPod, according to an internal Disney email I have obtained. That could include anything from clips from ESPN and ABC News to short cartoons.' "

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  1. Re:Enough by chrome · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I use a mac for work every day, but really this shit is getting ridiculous.

    Its just not ... news yet! Its not even been confirmed, or announced. Its just rumours! So why feed the rumour mill?

    The things that are beginning to make me stop coming here, after what, ever since /. started?

    • The dupes. C'mon. If you, as an editor, can't be bothered to review the submissions properly (remember, there is only 10 or so stories a day!!!) then you, the editor, should fucking resign and let someone else who is more capable and, better yet, INTERESTED in doing the job properly.
    • The sycophantic Apple loving. I like Apple kit - as I said, I use a powerbook every day - but stop stop stop stop stop reporting on every little bloody thing they do. Wait until there is actually NEWS. The whole rumour on the shift to intel had how many stories
    • The quality of the stories. At the top of the page it says, "News for nerds. Stuff that matters.". Not "News linked to from The Register" or "News linked to from Anandtech" or "News aggregator for anime stuff". There are many, many good news aggregators out there now, people who want to have aggregated news feeds WILL USE A NEWS AGGREGATOR. Slashdot should be original news. Stuff that everyone else isn't reporting on. The stories on the ethanol (while a dupe from a couple of weeks back, and nothing had changed since then) were interesting, for example, and provoked really quite interesting discussion. But no, we have to see more "Apple suck!" comments because someone has helped feed Apple hypemachine yet again.

    I've had enough. I don't know why I keep coming back, but I think it's because sometimes, once in 20 or 30 stories posted, there is actually something interesting there that someone has gone out of their way to research and follow through on.