the true purpose of the mini

[ultratramp]

Read here

i thought this was a good read. like a really well thought out conspiracy theory story. :P


If Apple hopes to emulate its iPod/iTunes success, what does that mean? It means selling hardware devices and proprietary content to play on those devices. The first such hardware device is probably the Mini. And the proprietary content will be video encoded in AVC H.264, which will be supported first in OS X 10.4, promised for the second quarter of this year. So Apple can't announce that it is in the movie distribution business until 10.4 (code-named Tiger) is available.

this may seem familiar because it was also posted on pinoymac.org by mtl_ph :beer:

interesting. maybe the future video ipods wont be used as portable viwing platforms but video vaults/players to be hooked up to hdtvs for viewing. does it require a lot of hardware to make a current ipod do this? maybe not much since the ipod photo already play photos on tv screens? and besides i read somewhere that research shows most people buy DVDs to be able to lend them out. in this case, one just plays the movie from his ipod video on his friends HDTV.







[Edited on 25-1-2005 by ultratramp]

[hannibal]

there's truth in it.

[wicket]

take that gates!

althought, i frown upon monopoly (something like it), you have to admire his vision