Comments on: Apple event could bring iPod news

"Special event" featuring Steve Jobs and Bono, set for next week, fuels speculation about an updated music player.
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Talk of a New iPod
by October 18, 2004 12:57 PM PDT: I betcha the new iPod will have a built in camera and instant messaging capability as well as the screen to view pictures.

Maybe even have the ability to send pictures to and stream music to other iPod users sharing photos and songs within a network.

It should also have recording and playback capabilities. That way you could talk or sing into the iPod, save the audio as a file, and stream it to a friend with an iPod to share your recording. That would be so cool.

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iPod to stream music to airtunes...
by deanwaterman October 18, 2004 2:46 PM PDT: I bet, and I would wager alot on this one, that the new iPod will
be compativle with Apple's Airport Express w/airtunes. That
would be a natural outflow of the current software and hardware
that Apple now has. I could live without a color screen...
However, I wish that the new iPod would have some ability to
work with the calendar and other "PDA" functions. I use it as my
PDA, but dislike the one dimensional use that it now has. Hey
Mr. Jobs, if you are listening...; Like this Reply to this comment

Yes!
by October 18, 2004 3:34 PM PDT: An Apple will say they invented it! What originality they have! Look we put album and photo capabilities into our player. No ones else has that! LOL! Hey - we make the ipod into a PDA..we call it ipda. :) Ok, enough apple bashing.

Here?s a better player in my opinion.
http://www.archos.com/products/overview/gmini_400.html

Best looking, the most options, best sounding. And just think, you can play ANY music on it. What a concept! Choice!

Of course these are my opinions. It seems the majority of music player type people like the ipod. So it must be the best. Right? Hmmm.; Like this Reply to this comment

A few misconceptions
by dejo October 18, 2004 10:44 PM PDT: Let me respond to the previous three comments by clearing up
some misconceptions (one from each comment)

- Recording and playback capabilities: iPods already have these
features, via third-party add-ons, such as the Griffin iTalk

- "iPod would have some ability to work with the calendar and
other "PDA" functions" : iPod already integrates with calendars
and contacts, via vCalendar, iCalendar and vCard features

- Archos Gemini: does not play "ANY" music format files. It only
plays 3 types of files: MP3, WMA, and WAV. It does not playback
AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, or Audible, just to name a few.; Like this Reply to this comment

iTMS in Europe, please, please, pleeeeeeease......
by Edmund Jacobsen October 18, 2004 10:48 PM PDT: The germans, tbe brits and the french have got it. Now it's time
for Apple to make the rest of Europe cool, and launch iTMS in all
EU-countries.; Like this Reply to this comment