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Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod
An anonymous reader writes "It's that time of the year again, when Apple rumors bloom with the fall foliage and the press is inundated with hype and wishful thinking. MP3 Newswire has a reasonably sober article addressing 17 of those rumors, even giving odds on the validity of each. From the article: 'It is the peripheral manufacturers that now have a heavy sway on what features the iPod will add to its 6th generation. The peripheral market has done more to cement Apple's proprietary technology as a standard than Apple itself, adding to the iPod's dominance. Mr. Jobs will not upset that balance without good reason and Apple's recent deal with Creative to make iPod peripherals shows he wants to feed it further. But the iPod needs something new to keep it fresh and ahead of the competition.'"
you're going to have to get by without your OGG supporting iPod
No, you don't have to:
http://www.rockbox.org/
Supports: iPod 4th gen (grayscale and color), 5th gen (Video), Nano and Mini 1st/2nd gen
Nobody calls their mp3 player a "DAP". It's called an "mp3 player". I go to Best Buy and ask "where are the mp3 players" and the pimply kid points me to the right aisle.
And as far as "..DRMing the iPod/iTunes interface to the point where it becomes too difficult...", for me it's too difficult if there is any DRM at all on it. I'm not interested in DRM and I won't buy a player or music with DRM as long as I have an option. And with music-lovers on the internet and flash memory so cheap, I'll always have an option.
I just bought an 8gig SanDisk flash player that does video and plays mp3, wma, practically whatever I want. And it was cheap enough that I don't worry about it getting scratched by the change in my pocket. "Not Crippled in Any Way" is the kind of mp3 player I will buy.
I am so sick of big companies telling me how I'm supposed to enjoy music/play games/watch movies. This economy is consumer-driven and it might be time for consumers to take the wheel.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I might move between up to 5 computers during a week. Is there anything wrong with me wanting to take my music with me on my iPod?
Plug in iPod. Play songs stored on iPod via iTunes on the computer.
No, you can't permanently download the songs from the iPod to the computer - maybe use a DVD instead, and get a backup in the process? Even Apple's DRM allows you to have 5 (IIRC) authorised copies of a song you've downloaded from iTMS on various computers and players.
Next time you comment, make sure you know what you're talking about. Sheesh. Bet you'd be one of the first to cry FUD on a Microsoft says something bad about Linux story.
Bluetooth headsets are a no-no, given they only support 8kHz. Not good for decent audio.
Exercise your right not to vote. thinkoutside.org
Just to clarify, transparent aluminum oxide or alumina, a ceramic, is often confused by the news as "transparent aluminum metal". Alumina is one of the hardest materials next to diamond. The polycrystalline mineral form of aluminum oxide is called corundum while both sapphire and ruby are transparent single crystal forms with various impurities giving color. Sapphire single crystals are grown commercially and sold as substrates for making gallium nitride LEDs, the blue ones, because a gallium nitride substrate is too costly. Presumably, watch makers also purchase this single crystal sapphire for use in watch faces.
You can add/remove songs from On-The-Go playlists on the newer iPods, I believe.
All you need to do is hold down the center button on the song until it blinks to remove that song from the playlist.
It's been done years ago.
Bullshit. This is not the default action. The default action is to ask you if you want to re-sync the iPod to the new machine, and delete the files on it - or to leave them alone. It gives you this choice when you plug the iPod in.
... and then they built the supercollider.