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hadocon
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Oct 23, 2001, 06:06 PM
 
Does anyone know what the reas specifications the iPod actually has? is the mp3 player hardware or software? if it is software, than the iPod is a new computer platform - with only one app thus far (iTunes, a killer app if I ever saw one)

is the iPod a platform!?!?!?!?!

please email me with infos...

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Luke Sands
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Oct 24, 2001, 11:56 AM
 
As far as I know its a hardware player but If the iPod was a new platform then in theory we could make more apps for it , making it a PDA type thing.

If Apple had intended it to become a PDA, then it would have had a color screen from the start- I wouldn't buy a black-and-white PDA again....
     
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Oct 24, 2001, 01:43 PM
 
The iPod seems to be an embedded system, meaning that it is not a new platform. No "CodeWarrior for iPod" in the horizon
     
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Oct 24, 2001, 02:52 PM
 
But it does have updateable firmware which leads me to believe that the mp3 decoder is software and can be updated/replaced through a firmware update. So if you really wanted to you could probably write some sort of mini-OS for the iPod.

On the other hand
     
   
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