Oct 132005
I’m taking bets on when we’ll hear the first reports of someone getting fired because they were caught in their cubicle watching porn on their video iPod. While watching movies on a tiny screen doesn’t interest me much, the ability to download television episodes for a small fee is likely to be far more groundbreaking in the long run. It will be interesting to see how many content producers get on board with this concept and license their stuff to Apple. Could Apple risk becoming a monopoly in its own right as the dominant purveyor of digital entertainment? Such a scenario would be deliciously ironic.
Speaking of irony, my brother is due to get a now-outdated audio-only iPod as a belated birthday gift. I wonder if he’ll be pissed.
Mark: What do you mean outdated!! He should have enough room to store hundreds of cd and thousands of classical music scores. Why does anyone need video when you have your computer? It is a waste of money.
DAD