texanpenguin
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Okay, okay, so MacOSX.com was wrong again - there's no colour screen, it doesn't sync with iPhoto, and there's not even the remotest chance you could make it play QuickTime movies. But looking ahead, what features would you LIKE on a NEW new iPod? A fifth-generation iPod, that is?
Was the colour screen thing something people wanted? Or just what they expected? What do YOU want your iPod to do?
Personally, I'm thinking I'd like, when it's economical cost-wise, to see a Video-out port that can play images, videos and music visualisations on a TV. I'm not particularly fussed if there's a new screen that can show the same things on the actual display, that's not particularly important to me, I couldn't happily look at photos at 160*128px anyway - but if you could view them through a TV, that's something people might use. Heck, if they were short on features, they could allow us to use the buttons on the remote to control the games, and have them on the TV too
. But that might be stretching it a bit far.
A great number of in-dash car stereos have simple visualisation effects in monochrome, which MIGHT work OK on an iPod, but could lead people to thinking their iPod was a great deal inferior technically to their computer (even their Windows computer) which can easily play iTunes Visualisations properly.
In the end, a lot of what people like with the iPod is that it doesn't try and cram every stupid feature into it, like Sony did with the Clié, making it enormous and utterly unusable. Any additions to the iPod would have to respect its purpose in life, and that's to play music - the iPod is supposed to be sitting in your pocket and playing music, occasionally filling your downtime with Solitairey goodness (which is sadly lacking on the actual Apple OS but that's another story). I think it's a reasonable thing to ask that it be a repository for your iPhoto collection too, for viewing on a TV, in an interface like the one on Mac.com - people with iMacs for computing could keep their photos on the iPod and take them to a friend's house for showing them holiday snaps, ON A SCREEN. 160x128 is just too small a res to sit around and look at photos or movies.
I'm still up for a power-user line in the handhelds by Apple. NOT a PDA, but just a nice brushed metal PowerPod which could have a bigger res, perhaps a colour screen inbuilt, some sort of bluetooth or WiFi connectivity, so it could control your PowerBook during a keynote or something, with a trackpad perhaps, instead of a scrollwheel. I don't know.
What would you like? Not expect, not think they'll make but wouldn't use, what do you WANT them to give you?
Note this is even more out-there than speculation - it's just brainstorming for ideas. I'm curious.
If this is in the wrong forum, please move it appropriately.
Was the colour screen thing something people wanted? Or just what they expected? What do YOU want your iPod to do?
Personally, I'm thinking I'd like, when it's economical cost-wise, to see a Video-out port that can play images, videos and music visualisations on a TV. I'm not particularly fussed if there's a new screen that can show the same things on the actual display, that's not particularly important to me, I couldn't happily look at photos at 160*128px anyway - but if you could view them through a TV, that's something people might use. Heck, if they were short on features, they could allow us to use the buttons on the remote to control the games, and have them on the TV too
. But that might be stretching it a bit far.A great number of in-dash car stereos have simple visualisation effects in monochrome, which MIGHT work OK on an iPod, but could lead people to thinking their iPod was a great deal inferior technically to their computer (even their Windows computer) which can easily play iTunes Visualisations properly.
In the end, a lot of what people like with the iPod is that it doesn't try and cram every stupid feature into it, like Sony did with the Clié, making it enormous and utterly unusable. Any additions to the iPod would have to respect its purpose in life, and that's to play music - the iPod is supposed to be sitting in your pocket and playing music, occasionally filling your downtime with Solitairey goodness (which is sadly lacking on the actual Apple OS but that's another story). I think it's a reasonable thing to ask that it be a repository for your iPhoto collection too, for viewing on a TV, in an interface like the one on Mac.com - people with iMacs for computing could keep their photos on the iPod and take them to a friend's house for showing them holiday snaps, ON A SCREEN. 160x128 is just too small a res to sit around and look at photos or movies.
I'm still up for a power-user line in the handhelds by Apple. NOT a PDA, but just a nice brushed metal PowerPod which could have a bigger res, perhaps a colour screen inbuilt, some sort of bluetooth or WiFi connectivity, so it could control your PowerBook during a keynote or something, with a trackpad perhaps, instead of a scrollwheel. I don't know
.What would you like? Not expect, not think they'll make but wouldn't use, what do you WANT them to give you?
Note this is even more out-there than speculation - it's just brainstorming for ideas. I'm curious.
If this is in the wrong forum, please move it appropriately.
