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Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move?
An anonymous reader writes "Apple has had a lot of success with the iPod brand the past few years. The NYT has an article up wondering if, just maybe, this week's release of the video iPod was too soon." From the article: "Everyone from Microsoft to Comcast - in other words, the usual suspects - is working on or looking at similar pocket-size recorders. At least two companies, Pace Micro Technology of Britain and Samsung of South Korea, have said they plan to introduce models early next year. There is also TivoToGo, a service that can forward recorded shows to various mobile devices, even Sony PSP handheld gaming units ... [anyway,] the video iPod only has it half right: if it took material from the television as readily as it did from the Internet, it could be a blockbuster. But then who would pay $1.99 to download an episode of 'Lost' from iTunes if the iPod could also hook up to your television and record that same episode free? Unlike its musical forebear, the video iPod may not be ready for prime time. "
First of all, the Lost and Desperate Housewives downloads are US-only. So for everywhere else than the US, Apple offers basically zero content to use for their hot new video iPod right now.
Second of all, hey, and what's coming up, Apple? Pixar shorts? Probably through some Disney contract, huh? Just like how those two shows come from a Disney-owned station. Hey wait, don't tell me Disney is the ONLY company you have a video content contract with??!!
Yeah, this definitely sounds like Apple rushed it out.
Say, are you a spokesman for Apple?
And for all:- Doesn't play OGG files. It's the future apparently.
Now, with the announcement of videos, my wife (the real old-movie freak) is mentioning "iPod" once or twice a day. My bet is that she'll wait until she sees a couple in action, and then she'll have to buy one...
Now if they'd just incorporate a "smartphone" (phone + calendar), with full-time internet access, it'd be an instant sell. We could carry just the one electronic barnacle.
That's already been out for a year and a half. It's called the Treo 650. Plays Music, movies, tv shows, is a palm organizer, has internet access.
Funny that you Apple nitwits ignore it, because it does't have a little fruit logo on it.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
linux users?
Eh bullshit. The entire NFL halftime show today was sponsored by a company selling business wireless services. They weren't marketing the Treo, because for CIOs in the 0.1% of the audience that is targetted by these commercials, the device doesn't sell, the results sell. Just as how IBM runs commercials for "e-Business" and not "Z-Series Mainframes". Just because they aren't shoving "iPod" and "Drink Coke" in your face doesn't mean they aren't spending tons of money selling it.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.
They didn't buy it due to an Apple ad - they bought it because it works!
Maybe, maybe not. All the clueless users at my work with ipods bought them because they didn't know what else was out there.
Then they come to me when their voicemails start appearing on their ipod, because iTunes has sucked up all their file associations.
At which point, I show them the iriver lineup, and they end up ebay'ing their ipod.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I thought the Treo was just a PHONE with only 23 MB of available flash memory.
Then you reveal your ignorance of the product, and thus, prove my point. They make SD cards in sizes larger than 23 megs, you know. (or maybe you didn't know, as your tech knowledge appears limited to whatever appears on the apple website)
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.