Ten-year-old Apple Newton beats latest Windows UMPC Which is fine -so long as you don't want to watch movies, browse the web in colour, take or look at colour photos (some of the UMPC come with a built in camera) and other things I'll think of later.I'd still like a Newton though - but for novelty value. If I could pick one up for £50....
Memorex readies handheld iPod videoscreen | Reg Hardware
I don't get it. Why buy one of these things when surely you could buy an ordinary portable DVD player with aux inputs and use that - and have the opitical drive to boot.
Oh no, wait -I know exactly why - that maxim: "An iPod user and their money are soon parted.
seattlepi.com Microsoft Blog: Apple, Microsoft and toast
It's really entertaining reading this blog entry two years later. It contains a quote where people are asking Steve Jobs about what's next for the iPod. Colour screen? Video? Oh no, says Mr Jobs -we're all about the music. You can have music as a background activity but video is just too distracting.
Then not so long after Lo, they trot out the new colour screen iPods that um - er - play video. (With rumours abounding of a bigger screened iPod - even more designed around video playback to come). Then oooh, the iTunes store lets you download TV shows, with films promised later. Um. Also in the comments someone mentions an iPod phone. That came and went - and no doubt will be back again in some form, a very expensive form, once they've done a few licencing deals. I dunno - all in all it makes Jobs look like a very shifty geezer to me.Upodate: the motorola razr phone is being advertised as coming with iTunes.
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