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RE: Might as well be now if ever
That would be scary -- a PDA with a built in hard drive. I think the iPod proves that it can be done under $500 (a reasonable amount for a PDA - no offense Sony fans).
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RE: Might as well be now if ever
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I would be pretty skeptical about it though...
RE: Might as well be now if ever
Of course, they could just want a smart enhineer to work on the mac.
RE: Might as well be now if ever
Actually, Apple didn't develop any of the internals of the iPod. Essentially, they came up with the design and outsourced all the work for the embedded OS (Pixo), firmware, DSP, etc.
In the case of the iPod, I think they realized that by outsourcing as much work as possible, they were able to bring a final product to market much quicker than if they had built it entirely on their own.
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Might as well be now if ever
With the storage space afforded by even a 5gig iPod hard drive, it would make all of the squabbles over MemoryStick Pros vs. SD cards a relatively moot point. Apple could stick in a small 2 or 1gig HD into a PdaPod (my name for it) and still be vastly ahead of the competition in terms of storage space. Of course, lack of firewire in most PCs would still be an issue, but Apple could always bundle a cheap 2-port PCI card in the box...
I have long wondered why Apple didn't attempt to at least stick a toe into the consumer digital camera market after having more or less launched it many moons ago but with the competition so cutthroat, it's easy to see why they'd rather focus on a feature-laden PDA instead. Hmm.....