[opendtv] Re: iPOD
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:29:34 -0500
At 7:25 PM +0000 3/1/05, cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Portable entertainment is no fad and will never fade into oblivion.
More important, the iPod is one component of a larger system to
manage personal music collections...the portability component.
Focusing on one aspect of what Apple has done misses the forest for
the trees.
An iPod is almost useless without iTunes.
But I did learn about another use for the iPod that is very interesting today.
Turns out that many people who have adopted the Panasonic P2
solid-state memory camcorders are using iPods to move video files
from P2 modules in the field to hard disk. The "portable" P2 drive
has a USB 2.0 interface which plugs directly into an iPod, which can
ALSO be used as a target disk drive for generic data storage.
This is reminiscent of a problem that some retailers experienced with
iPods when they were first introduced. Some early adopters figured
out that they could plug their iPod into a Mac in a retail setting
and copy the applications loaded onto that machine...
Just a portable music player...
Yeah right.
Regards
Craig
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