October 27, 2004
iPod Photo
Apple just announced their new iPod Photo. It's available in two capacities, one of which is the 60GB microdrive announced to the press by Hitachi a while ago. The existing iPod, however, is still maxed out at 40GB. The 60GB + a new higher-resolution color LCD (about 33% more pixels in the same 2") is very appealing. It also gives 15 hours of operation, rather than the 8 hours of a regular iPod. That's even more impressive considering how taxing color and thumbnail scrolling is. I've already maxed out my 20GB iPod capacity.
Some people may remember that Apple was upset at Hitachi for announcing the 60GB microdrive and confirming that Apple had already agreed to purchase a bunch of them. Of course, no one else is buying microdrives in bulk, so it is not like that is much of a surprise.
Plus, the photo capabilities is really a great feature that doesn't detract from the iPod's functionality or make it bloated. There are just two things I think could be better.
First, syncing photos through iTunes is yucky. It works good, but it is a yucky idea. iTunes is for music, not photos. But this is sort of necessary because iPhoto is not free and people don't want to download another application just for the purpose of synchronizing. Apple can't release a different organization application because that is what iPhoto is for.
Second, people have been able to use photo card readers to upload digital pictures directly onto the iPod using third-party readers (e.g. the Belkin Media Reader). It would be great if this worked with the new iPod Photo. Maybe those third-party readers will be redesigned to do so, but I think existing readers won't be able to do this because the photo feature is going to have a special filesystem layout and possibly databases as well. The readers will need new software do take advantage of it.
Posted by josuah at October 27, 2004 1:00 AM UTC+00:00
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Oh, an IPOD. My birthday is coming up (hint, hint, hint). I'll settle for a Ipod mini =) j/k. So what did you max your 20 gb ipod on? Or is this something I shouldn't be asking.
About the user interface, so you can change it if I give you suggestions? Was this your choice of an unfriendly gui so no one would want to read your blog?
Maybe I'll get you one if you can spell iPod correctly. And for your information, I my 20GB of music is all legitimate. I do not have a single song that I should not have. The full list is there if you click on the music button up top (well, almost full, as I've run out of hard disk space on my server also).
And yes, give suggestions. That's what feedback is used for! :P
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