iCrystal Ball
Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying that a video iPod is not in the works, arguing that watching videos is a foreground activity whereas listening to music is a background activity. It’s true. Reading books is another foreground activity and I was just now annoyingly having to drive a car when I really wanted to be finishing up this silly techno-thriller novel that has snagged me.
Anyway, this may be true of watching videos, but what about recording video?
How about this: A video cell phone with a microdrive. Networked, maybe with third-generation technology. Enables wireless videoconferencing with other users of the device as well as all iChat AV clients. Can record 30 fps video at some reasonable resolution. Also has regular iPod audio functionality. It wouldn’t do much more than that. No web browser, for example. Okay, maybe you get a mail client. Packaged with Apple’s design sensibility and marketing muscle.
Predictions about Apple’s moves are a favorite hobby of geeks. I’m probably not very good at it, since I don’t really keep up with all the latest gadgets. I don’t know what’s already old news on the video cell phone/PDA front, and probably lots of people have already thought of all this. But as far as I know videophones haven’t made a big splash yet. It just seems that Apple is in a unique position to make it happen. IChat, iSight, Quicktime with H.264 compression, etc.
Okay, back to my silly techno-thriller novel.
July 25th, 2005 at 10:47 am
I’m going with iDildo personally.
But as we’ve all seen, apple and I don’t seem to agree on much haha
August 4th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
an iDildo with integrated video camera. now that would be innovative.