Re: Can't be PowerPod... but iPod2??
Originally posted by Quark
PowerPod is a registered trademark and a separate product, completely unrelated to Apple.
But... go ahead and type in http://www.ipod2.com and see what happens... hmmmm...
Quark
Another infamous apple DNS listing.
Seriously this PowerPod seems like the most reasonable thing in a LONG time about a 'PDA'. I mean a web tablet obviously doesn't fit in anywhere. I think the iMac would get a touch screen
if anything like that ever happens. The PDA doesn't seem uber logical either. The PowerPod does. But i think we're overshooting it here. It needs to get back to the basics:
Imagine the PowerPod as a device slightly bigger than an iPod, with the same wheel and buttons, then a wireless keyboard for when you actually need to type.
iApps work with the PowerPod. Run iTunes and sync your music onto it's onboard 10GB+ HD. Run iPhoto and copy over an album to run slideshows, run iDVD and save super-compressed Mini-DVDs onto the PowerPod. Mac OS X would be updated with Ink, which would also handle hot syncing of text. Address Book would handle your addresses DIRECTLY (none of this AppleScript junk). Run Mail to put your mail onto it and read it later. Run IE and copy over any web site you want onto the PowerPod. Run iChat to hot-sync your buddy list to the PowerPod (iChat for the PowerPod? Who knows).
As for the OS the PowerPod would not be capable of a complex vector based API like Quartz. Instead the PowerPod would be roughly based off PalmOS 5, with full audio and video playback features. The PowerPod would function as a MP3 player seperatly, running completly simmilar to the iPod, less the address book and language options (which would be in the regular PDA part). Then add some utility for monitoring your Xserve farm and it's a best seller. Update HD and CPU and repeat.
