iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You

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iPod Video Coming to a Car Near You

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 12, 2005 @06:26AM from the seeing-is-believing dept.

_am99_ writes "In the "one more thing" media event today, an iPod that can play Video was announced. The initial content seems to be music videos that can be purchased from the iTunes Music Store." In related news aquachannel writes "Apple has just updated their iPodYourCar page to include a slew of new car companies. This means that there'll be a lot of cars that you can buy off the showroom floor and use your iPod with your car - right off the floor and out of the box."

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Man, was I wrong. by Faust7 · 2005-10-12 06:28 · Score: 3, Funny

And here I thought they were finally releasing the successor to the Apple IIGS.

Or they fixed up the Apple /// even better this time. Or they bristled at the term "Apple ][ Minus" and went back to Integer BASIC without Autostart. Or they followed up on that Pippin console.

Quiet you, it could still happen.

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One more thing... by all+your+mwbassguy+a · 2005-10-12 06:28 · Score: 4, Funny

no bluetooth. doesnt support ogg vorbis. lame.
Video iPod pornography. by CyricZ · 2005-10-12 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Has anyone begun selling Video iPod pornography yet?

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1. Re:Video iPod pornography. by Zach978 · 2005-10-12 06:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I can finally get interested in Podcasting...
  
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2. Re:Video iPod pornography. by tbone1 · 2005-10-12 06:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Has anyone begun selling Video iPod pornography yet?
  Does "Desperate Housewives" count?
  Sincerely,
  Terrell Owens
  
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3. Re:Video iPod pornography. by Chocolate+Teapot · 2005-10-12 07:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I believe that Apple may have considered adding adult content to the iTunes store, but following the lack of serious interest in this product, they decided that it is too much of a niche market :)
  
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4. Re:Video iPod pornography. by kalel666 · 2005-10-12 07:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "I'm talking about quadruple anal penetration. Yes, four cocks in one woman's tight cunt."
  
  Four nearsighted, cross eyed drunks, with no depth perception, apparently.
  
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5. Re:Video iPod pornography. by winkydink · 2005-10-12 08:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  or a slashdotter who doesn't know his ass from a... never mind
  
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cool news by Ankou · 2005-10-12 06:29 · Score: 4, Funny

According to Stuff magazine:

"You'll be able to buy TV shows from the iTunes Music Store - Desperate Housewives, Lost and more shows from ABC and Disney." I guess that means Terry Hatcher will be getting into MY pants!
Video iPod -- Who Knew? by JonTurner · 2005-10-12 06:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Talk about unexpected... that Apple sure can keep a secret!
Re:More at CBS news by op12 · 2005-10-12 06:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Finally I can catch up on shows I missed while driving to work the next day.
Classic iPod quotes by fiannaFailMan · 2005-10-12 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

"Agree with the article poster - Lame. Not only is this a lackluster MP3 unit (which by virtue of being firewire will be limited to Apple Mac owners), but it has virtually no UI wizardry that might define it as an Apple product. A total waste of time."

"Raise your hand if you have iTunes ...
Raise your hand if you have a FireWire port ...
Raise your hand if you have both ...
Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."

And of course, the obligatory "Apple's going under:"
Goofy internal projects, expensive gaffes trying to "diversify" into areas it has only a tenuous relationship to, a complete inability to understand markets, and a constitutional immunity against learning from their mistakes. There is no future in a $400 (about $250 too expensive) firewire-only (5% of computer users) hardrive-based (read: fragile) mp3 player. Any one of these critical flaws might doom the product - take them all together and you have another classic corporate farce. When you see silliness on this level, though, normally you expect to see a raging egotist who is immune to common sense and criticism in some position of power in the company... oh wait, Steve Jobs. Never mind. This just reinforces my steadily growing sense of foreboding about Apple. Yes, I've said this before and been wrong, but I'll say it again anyway. They're living on borrowed time."
Names hidden to spare any embarrassment.
See the original thread from the time of the original iPod launch.

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Re:Finally... by databyss · 2005-10-12 07:25 · Score: 3, Funny

The Pacific is a biiiig ocean.

I sure hope you like "That's So Raven".

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Re:Finally... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-12 07:55 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm surprised they didn't release a remote with only one button.
Re:This is ridiculous by seven+of+five · 2005-10-12 08:48 · Score: 3, Funny

-New iMac with built-in Firewire camera

finally, easy out-of-the-box setup for sexcam bunnies....