[jakeasdel]

ipod replacement would be a filling in your tooth that holds your music and transmits directly to your ears, and i suppose u can use ur finger as a usb port, or maybe they will bring back firewire cause apple took that away from us =[

[mrsidewayzz]

very good read. if the ipod dies, apple better have a damn good rebound thats alot better than the ipod. and it better have a catchy name with i in the beginning of it.

[boe_dye]

Originally Posted by jakeasdel

ipod replacement would be a filling in your tooth that holds your music and transmits directly to your ears, and i suppose u can use ur finger as a usb port, or maybe they will bring back firewire cause apple took that away from us =[

it's not that they took firewire away, cause God only knows how much it is still widely used in the music industry, the thing is, is that they way they marketed firewire, and what they expected in return for everyone to use firewire was too high.

That's why USB blew it away cause microsoft and intel just said here it is use it and enjoy, Apple wanted a cut every time the name was used.

That's one reason why the iPhone is going to really going to put Apple on the map (well at least a considerably larger space then before). When the first iPhone came out, it was very elitist. But with the new 3g one, they made it so much cheaper for the common man to consider, or at least worked the numbers better.

And that is where Apple can really win, is that they created the mystique around their products. They made them desirable, but kept them priced so that they were out of the hands of everyone.

Now we are starting to see that they are saying, "hey, you've heard about it, now you can have one too and at a more competitive price".

And if the reports are true about a sub 1000 dollar laptop, we are probably going to see more and more OS X users.

And then eventually we will start to see a cheaper Mac Desktop, and not just some iMac, but an actual Mac Desktop.

[NgaNick]

use pandora or last fm over 3g and let me know why you would ever purchase music over itunes if you can just pay for a usage fee monthly or on a use by use basis..you get anything you ever want..cover art..all meta data etc.. its like video on demand. storage on HDD is fastly fading away.

[rdwalsh]

Originally Posted by boe_dye

And then eventually we will start to see a cheaper Mac Desktop, and not just some iMac, but an actual Mac Desktop.

There is, and always was. Look back at G3, G4, G5, and now Mac Pro. Base models are cheap, in comparrison to most of macs products they aren't that expensive until you start adding to them. Even go as far back as the G2 or the Cube. (Wasn't it the same thing, cant remember).

I've owned a G5 since they came out, ordered a G4 got a call they were discontinued, but wait we have a new product the G5 and with the specs you wanted it will save you 800 bucks. I said sign me up, and haven't regreted it for a second.

But thats all off topic. As it has been said, it is the legacy of electronic goods, they all do die, or become something more. I enjoy my iPhone, I have had both the 2G and the 3G. Enjoyed them both thoroughly, only got the 3G because I was hit by a car and the screen shattered on the 2G. Sometimes I thank getting hit by the car, because I really really like the 3G. But as history has shown us, especially with electronics is in a year or less something smaller, faster, and better comes out. PC's are a good example of this...

I still remember buying an Acer Aspire many moons ago (when macs were still coming in those small unibody hunks of tanned plastic, which are now more commonly used as fishbowls), and by the time I got it out of the box and set up a week later, it was already out of date. Technology is huge, and rapid.

I have no doubt the iPod will disappear, or become something else, but only time will tell what it will become. There are plenty of technologies out there, that havent even been mentioned here yet. Microsofts water tables, LED film... there are so many directions that multimedia devices can go. But I must admit, they wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for the competition the iPod brought in.