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Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-love-ipoddery dept.

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.'"

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  1. Killer feature that would never happen (offically) by James+McGuigan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wi-Fi / bluetooth support with built in file sharing.

    PC Dude: Hey man, what you listening to...
    Mac Dude: An old favourite, Assemblage 23
    PC Dude: You mind if I listen...
    Mac Dude: Sharing ear-buds is so last millenium, but watch this...
    Mac Dude:
    PC Dude:
    PC Dude:
    PC Dude: Cool !!!
    RIAA Dude: You guys can't do that, thats, like, stealing, man.
    RIAA Dude: Anyway, hows you all do that, I thought we had managed to ban all that stuff since the 60's like drugs, free love, sharing.
    RIAA Dude: Don't you know we are at war those damned commies, err, I mean terrorists
    Mac Dude: If I'm the Mac, and your the PC and Tux is there doing the filming thus is always out of the picture, what does that make him.
    Tux: He must be Sid, the Digital Restrictions Monster in disguise who trys to destroy all the cool toys.
    RIAA Dude: Mock me if you wish, but we will see who laughs last when I sue you for $150,000... per song...
    Tux: If you strike me down now I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine...
    Tux: Hey wait, didn't the last guy to use that line get killed shortly after...
    RMS: Look you signed up to this. GPLv3, Section 7 says "Give me libery or give me death"
    RMS: I know we tend to focus more on the liberty bit than the death bit, but hey thats where the intrest is...
    RMS: But it would really help if you could submit a patch, once you have finished getting that death thing completed, that is...
    RIAA Dude: Hey, I'm the RIAA and I demand to have the last word.
    Tux: OK