I have been reading rumours on the web about the ipod video is going to revealed to the world on Wednesday on the BBC here in the UK some other sites say it also going to be revealed in California at the same time. One problem tho is that the BBC has strict rule's on advertising i.e. it has none and is very strict on product placement in programs so how is it going unreal the ipod video?
It would seem it is true one the bbc web site it says
"The event is cloaked in the usual Apple secrecy but speculation has been rife about what will go on show.
The BBC's Television Centre in London is hosting part of the event which has fuelled gossip about the video iPod.
Other candidates for the launch include a higher-capacity iPod, improved Power Mac and Powerbook computers and tiered pricing on the iTunes store."
ahh apple, i love it when they stick it to microsoft, kinda off topic here, but Bill Gates is coming to my school in a bit, its gonna be great, he'll look out into the audience and all he'll see is white ear-bud headphones everywhere, i would estimate nearly 50% of our student body has some sort of ipod.
Nice but why on earth is bill going to your school? That ipod video is a joke i can see people watching movie trailers on it and music videos but tv programs on a 2 1/2 screen for an hour you have to be joking me. They should have took one of the mock ups that people had created of what they think it will look like the look much better.
http://www.fayerwayer.com/render2b.jpg
While im moaning at apple i also had the ipod sorry Newhotness , some of my m8's have a ipod and some have a creative zen micro as do i, the zen micro is cheaper looks just as good for the price bigger capacity creative are sound equipment people their for it sounds better and i have herd the same song on both and ut does indeed sound better. It also has a radio and i not bias towards any specific format you also don't need the rubbish itunes to put music on it.
In in all the only reason people by a ipod is because it looks good if they was to do some research and listen to both etc the creative zen micro will always come out on top.
possibly true, i bought an ipod mini bc it was a good deal, and at the time i figured it had all the space i req'd (4G). as for itunes, true, it is a little restrictive, a lot of my friends hate it but need to use it bc they got hooked into buying an ipod. also, i agree, the ipod video seems stupid for watching movies or tv, but look at the success of the psp, and its not much bigger, the only differnece is that you MUST buy those expensive videos for it, where as you could just dl/up the ones for the ipod. possibly something to consider.
as for why he's at my school, he's doing a tour of all the technology schools in central/eastern North America, and Waterloo is the only one he's stopping at in Canada, he's also going to MIT, RIT, and 1 of the Ivy leagues. either way, he's just a big name causeing big hype, i don't think people really care what he has to say, just that he's the one saying it.
He is most liley only doing the tour to sell windows.
One good thing about the psp tho is that it does everything videos, pictures, music, dvd's and if you download a emulator and have 1.5 firmware as i have you can play old mega drive, snes games etc. It also hackable like nothing before apart from maybe windows .
Edit: One of the students should ask if he owns a ipod see what he says.
as for selling windows, it wasn't geared at vista AT ALL, it was more or a recruitment purpose than a selling one, his main topics (on the surface) were about technology and where we are going to be in say, 10 or 20 years. he showed Project Gothem Racing 2 on the new X-box 360, aparently he's not a great player, he kept hitting walls, then he had the computer take over for him. he also had a REALLY cool time of handheld, apparently customized for him. it takes his fingerprint, then he can use it to project anything onto a board. it also has a neat feature, he took a random buisness card from the audience, placed it on the table in from of the handheld, scanned it with a light scan, then all the info was automatically uploaded onto the device, it also provided all the phone number links on the card, everything was functional within seconds of the scan. he suggested that in 10-20 years, all handhelds would only be unifunctional, and would actually replace all curent devices, and some. phones, mp3, video, palm, even laptops could be a thing of the past once the technology is tested and developed enough. i think the hardware is ready, and the ideas are sound, but society is not ready yet for a device of this ability. also, with quantum computing research going so well at UW (my school) it looks as if mega-super-computers (if i might be so bold) are not that far away. any thoughts on any of this are welcome for discussion.
also, about the ipod question, i think someone had it as the question they were going to ask, but they didn't get picked, too bad, maybe msn virtual earth can get us some good pics of bill out for his morning job jamming to the beats of the new nano ipod, only time will tell...