OK - I’m officially confused
Will one of you Apple slave - I mean customers - please tell me why you’d want to carry around photos that you didn’t take with your iPod in your iPod?
Where’s the camera?
Let’s take a poll.
How long will it take for Apple’s 50%+ market share of MP3 players to be reduced down to 2% just like what happened with the Mac?
Dan Gillmor told me today that Google was doing a PC strategy - because Picassa and Keyhole were both PC only products.
My answer “Gee maybe because 98% of all PCs are PCs. Duh!”
October 28th, 2004 at 12:00 am
Because it’s a firmware upgrade and a few license agreements with Hollywood studios away from syncing for-pay video content (iTunes already shows videos cross-platform, and QT got revved along with the iTunes update).
Because Kate loves the security of carrying around a backup of all her music AND photos.
Because (wishful thinking?) it’s another firmware upgrade away from being able to plug in firewire to be able to capture/transfer photos directly to iPod (lenses are expensive, leave it up to the people who are good at those).
Because some people don’t have computers at home…but they still have an iPod and now, gee willikers, it does photos, too (OK, this one is a stretch…but I seem to see a lot of a-typical iPod users, and have one/two anecdotal stories of people buying computers to go with their iPod…and both were PCs)
October 28th, 2004 at 12:53 am
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:39 PM
Meanwhile Marc Cantor is confused because the iPod doesn’t have a camera. Huh? I think that’s why he’s confused, I’m not sure. He also thinks Apple’s 50%+ share of MP3 players is going to drop down to 2%. Now that confuses me….
October 28th, 2004 at 8:02 am
I returned my 40gig iPod since I’d bought it less than a week before the launch of the iPod Photo. I’m not interested that much in the photo aspect, but I am interested in the color screen. The grayscale iPod screen is not very readable. The backlight helps a little, but try navigating to that in the dark (maybe somebody knows a shortcut?).
Now I wait for the local Apple store to populate their inventory.
October 28th, 2004 at 9:03 am
Because I can put a presentation/slide show on it and bring it to meetings.
Because I can put photos of the kids on it and bring it to the grandparent’s house.
Because I can offload my digital camera to it (with 3rd party attachment.)
Because I can hack at it and do neat things we haven’t thought of yet.