cloudy, chance of sun breaks: a peek at Apple’s video device strategy?:
“Unless some other kind of content in factored into this (something that isn’t affected by screen size like a movie would be and that doesn’t require a 90 minute investment), I’m not sure what’s a-brewing. A TiVo player you carry around, perhaps? Sync it up with your PVR and take your programming to go, along with your music . . . . .
There’s the obvious tease there, between what he says about their labs and the widely-discussed job posting for a video engineer with experience in consumer electronics . . . something’s up at Infinite Loop.”
(the height of egotism to quote yourself, but I wanted to refresh my memory: what did I say about that again?)
The more I think about this and in the wake of the single most widely TiVo’ed event ever, I think there’s some kind of portable video player that works with some kind of outboard display (for all I know, it could “broadcast” with a very weak signal. With the airport extreme running at 56 Mbits, WiFi is an option as well.
Trouble is, I don’t watch TV. I watch movies and the like, some baseball, but no mainstream network stuff or even cable. (Irony: when we had our @Home cable service connected in 2000, they inadvertently connected up cable TV as well, but we never knew it. AT&T didn’t catch it, but Comcast did. We never knew.) So the potential for this is obvious but I don’t feel a visceral demand for it.
Meanwhile, Frank continues to monitor progress toward his iServe (and he’s better qualified to address this new device’s requirements, anyway), and this mystery device is coming together just off-stage. What’s next?
[Posted with ecto]