Very interesting insights and information, Brian! Thanks for yourt
post. A whole lot more useful than the ill-considered knee-jerk vitriol
posted by some folks here before more detailed facts even had a chance
to be known/found out....as many have been pointing out but few have
been listening to, there's a lot more power available behind the scenes
in the iPod.
Apple needs to talk up this and other stuff (like the 1.8" drive) a lot
more. (As usual, Apple STILL has problems with it's
marketeers.....they need to headhunt microsoft's). Everyone else is
SOOOOO concerned with comparing/dissing some of the specs of the
device...so Apple should lay a bombardment of back specs on 'em.
The rumors of the ability to add programs to the device seem to be true
(beyond just firmware upgrades), if browsing the Pixo site briefly are
any indication. I'd love to know if it can load and run software from
the hard disk, for example....
I look forward to seeing the iPods in a few weeks, and seeing what is
to come.
- Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: bpearce_at_cloud9.net
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:29:28 EDT
Subject: [NTLK] An interesting and under-reported fact
>
> Two final observations about the iPod, both relevant in their own way
> (believe it
> or not!) to the list:
>
> From the iBook Zone <http://www.ibookzone.com/>:
>
> "And that is the rub. Why do so many people think the iPod is
> supposed to
> be for
> them? And that if they don't want it or can't afford it, that there
> is
> something
> wrong with the product? Think about it. The kind of negative response
> seen in
> many of the comments at slashdot.org really has no complimentary
> explanation.
> This is a well-designed product typical of Apple's history of quality
> merchandise."
>
> So you see, it *isn't* just us. The iPod seems to bring out the best
> and
> worst in many
> people.
>
>
> But of more interest, from Jerry Kindall's web site
> <http://www.jerrykindall.com/>:
>
> "Early pundit reaction includes much disappointment that it's just an
> MP3
> player,
> after Jobs promised a "revolutionary" device. But wait. First, note
> that
> it's got not
> one, but two ARM RISC processors in it. Second, note it runs a new
> mobile
> OS from
> Pixo <http://www.pixo.com/> and is, so far as I know, the first
> device on
> the market
> to run this OS. (At least, this is what I hear from sources I
> consider
> reliable.) Third,
> note that its built-in software is upgradable. Last, note it is not
> called the "iPlayer"
> -- "iPod" really has few music-specific connotations, when you get
> down to it.
>
> Given these clues, I think it's very likely that the MP3 player is
> merely
> the leading
> edge of this device's capabilities -- the "hook" that will let the
> company move a lot
> of them by Christmas -- and I'll place a wager that we'll be hearing
> much
> more about
> it at Macworld Expo San Francisco in early January."
>
> It's not so much the additional capabilities as the fact that the OS
> it
> runs comes
> from *outside* of Apple that I find to be an interesting and
> under-reported fact.
> Without wanting to add to the inevitable speculation of an
> Apple-branded
> PDA, it
> does seem to open up some possibilities...even if they might be
> unpleasant ones for
> Newton fanatics.
>
> BRIAN/bpearce_at_cloud9.net
>
>
>
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