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July 19, 2005
Again with the video iPod: My revelation
I've mentioned it a couple times before, but I'll briefly restate my opinion again: Video iPod? I don't get it. What's the big deal? Watch a film on a 2 inch screen? Why? That would suck.
But something mentioned in that editorial by Robert X. Cringely that I posted about on Friday got me thinking. A wearable video display... now that is an idea. Yes, they're weird, and up to now it's a technology that makes people think Star Trek more than iPod. But, this is what Apple does best - take an existing technology and make it better, make it useful to us, help us assimilate it into our daily lives. If any company could take the wearable video display mainstream, it would be Apple.
So this is what might finally sell me on this concept: A video iPod that includes an Apple-branded (white, of course) wearable video display. People already create their own little reality bubble when rocking out to music, the wearable video device would just be an extension of that same principle. However, it changes the nature of using the iPod from something that is a complimentary experience (listening to music while doing something else) to an immersive experience (watching a film captures your complete attention), so this iPod would be a new and different sort of device in my mind. But iPod + video seems to get a lot of people all aflutter, so maybe there is something to this idea...
Posted on July 19, 2005 11:09 AM | Category: Culture
