Wow, this new iPod is cool. I know I’m coming late to the party and a lot of these features are old news to a lot of you but I just came from an early Gen4 iPod to the new iPod Classic. My old screen was still black and white for god’s sake. It has double the capacity and 50% more battery life than my old one and is half the thickness and weight. I can see album covers and track listings on the CDs before I play them (so I don’t have to interrupt the current song). It also has that pesky alphabet search feature I’ve been after for so long. It uses the album art as a screen saver and tells me how many tracks are in each playlist. I still have NO desire to incorporate a phone into this thing so I’m not a candidate for the iPhone but other than that, this thing does everything I want it to do.
What’s next? Oh sure they can make them smaller and increase the capacity but what’s the next real change? A dental implant and you hear the music in your head? They can do so many cool things, why are all of our best innovations focused on entertainment? 50″ televisions and pocket-sized music libraries… Why can’t we solve any real problems? Why aren’t the brains behind these things focused on things like space flight and solar energy? Get these guys out of their cubicles and put them in boardrooms and in front of classrooms. If they can make laptops that know when they are falling and will brace for impact, then they should be able to perfect a proton-exchange-membrane fuel-cell!
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