Video, eh?
Just weeks after the release of the iPod Nano, Apple updates the iPod line with video capability. Even if I had a flush pocket of cash, I think I’d wait.
Maybe it’s a function of age - I’m not 16. I don’t doubt that Steve Jobs brought this new gadget to market knowing that it, in fact, had a market. Still, I can’t think of the last time I was out and about and thought, Boy, I wish I had yesterday’s episode of Lost to watch on a screen not much bigger than the one on my mobile phone.
(Right here, people that know me are snickering. The appeal of Lost and other TV sensations is limited for me. Now, give me a catalog of zombie films, and we’re talking.)
I’m not much for text messaging either. I don’t have the patience for typing away on my mobile - not when it’s quicker for me to simply call. I do recognize that select circumstances make text messaging useful. That’s when I resort to it.
Similarly, I recognize that circumstance might convince me that screwing my eyes to a 2.5-inch digital screen for the latest Desperate Housewives episode is convenient. All I’m saying is that, for me, I see those circumstances as few.
Mobile content is an inevitable precipice. But, the new iPods don’t yet include the content I want.
Gimme Google. Gimme email. Gimme wireless.
Add wi-fi to an iPod, and we’re talking. While I can’t remember wanting an on-demand video micro-snack on the go, often when I’m away from home I need directions (no snickering, please), an address, the time the next movie is playing at the overpriced multiplex, or simply a news update.
Take Palm’s LifeDrive for example. My criticism of that device, though, is that the hard drive is too small. Palm calls the 4 GB hard drive “huge.” When was the last time computer buffs considered 4 GB huge, even for a traveling hard drive? Palm would have me stuff my life into that 4 GB space. My music alone in 23 GB.
I guess that leaves me waiting on Apple to add a wireless card to its iPod line. Maybe in the next update.