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WHY an iPod and not iPad?
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I still don't understand why Apple figured an MP3 player was more a priority than an Apple PDA! There are many PDAs out that can play MP3s also! Now that iPod is such a cool product, it would be silly to now come out with an Apple PDA that would hurt iPod sales, plus doesn't Apple realize most people don't want to carry an iPod and an iPad/iWalk? Silly move.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 2000
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"Feminan napkin" no need to say any more
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I GOT WASTED WITH PHIL SHERRY!!!
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Maybe when Palm starts figuring out how to make money off of PDAs first you know. 
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I guess they first had to finish all the products that fit their "i" programs. iPod is the perfect companion to iTunes. They needed to finish off their digital hub.
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<Kristen>
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They tried that back in the early 90s. It was called the Newton. Unfortunately they were way ahead of their time (as usual) and the thing was a complete flop. They probably just have too many bad memories.....
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just seems to me that they could have simply increased the screen size to a standard Palm size, shrunk the wheel a little, thrown in the Palm OS, and had an iPad, MP3/PDA with a 5GB drive!
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Well, hopefully the new firmware updates will update the iPod into more than just an mp3 player. I mean, who listens to 5 GB of songs anyway?
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World of Warcraft (Whisperwind - Alliance) <The Eternal Spiral>
Go Dogcows!
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Salt Lake City, UT USA
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THERE IS NO MARKET FOR PDAs!
It's simple. Apple has been developing products where they can improve and extend the market.
Apple may be able to improve the PDA market,but they cannot extend it right now. There are far too many PDAs out there. Apple would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in development, and wouldn't be able to move the product. It's difficult to think of something Apple could do to make a truly innovative PDA. PDAs already do everything (and sometimes more than) they should.
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2008 iMac 3.06 Ghz, 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800, 500GB HD, SuperDrive
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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I was also surprised they didn't do a PDA initially, but after hearing SJ's comments, it made a lot of sense. I know people with PalmPilots who never use them, the only people I know who are really addicted to theirs are gadget-freaks, ie. my experience is that PDAs not a product for "the rest of us". Palm have probably saturated much of what market already exists.
But the iPod has some real potential. Perhaps we'll see semi-PDA applications (synchronisable contact lists, task lists etc.), apparently PDA apps already exist for Pixo, the OS on which iPod is based. But even if not, a few more simple games would make the iPod a really superior traveling companion. I'm thinking Chess, Tetris, maybe Asteroids... What would you like to see?
wulf
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