Anyone following iPod or Apple news would know Apple will have a conference this Wednesday for some product introductions. There have been many speculations as to whether a Video iPod will be introduced in this conference. Some argued that Jobs had rejected the idea in earlier conferences saying that there had to be enough videos programs in at least the iTunes store before a product as such could be deemed feasible.
While I don’t dare to make any speculations, I beg to differ. Just like the TV, had there been no TV units at all, who’s gonna produce any TV program, for whom to watch, and with what to watch them with? OK, so we have iTunes on our computers that can play video programs but say, for instant, with Podcasts or Vidcasts, IMO these programs are really for portable playback units. Had we the time on a computer to listen to any program, there is internet radio. Yet we download Podcasts, or Vidcasts in the future, just so we could enjoy them while we are on the go.
This morning when I went to download my Podcasts to be updated to my nano noir, there was a message saying that some programs were not updated to the iPod for the device cannot playback those programs which include the Podcast, SciQ. I went to check my SciQ subscription which I have been listening for a couple of weeks already only to find 5 of their latest programs had been changed from Podcasts to Vidcasts!
I am not sure whether the people at SciQ had any premonition, but to completely change the content format without any form of regular supported playback device is at the very least… strange.
Unless Apple could suddenly and magically come up with a software update for their color iPods allowing them to playback such video contents, I think a Video iPod is not far from its birthday.
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