You make some sense right there in the red section... everything else is bullsh*t. Wireless charging still requires you to connect to something else or plug something else in. The iPod is too small to use resonance charging as per your link so it would most likely get charged through... um... the dock... but may do away the big connectors at the bottom... and that still doesn't make sense because you would be killing off your 3rd party products which is what makes the iPod market so diverse. As per your business statements you have to think about the entire picture... not just want sounds good in your head. (no offense) Then comes the question of how would you charge it on the road.... if you don't have a computer around.... and how you would get the syncing started between you iPod and iTunes? If all of those can be answered by the 'wireless' docking station that still has to be plugged into the computer then nothing has changed from the original dock. Don't say anything about WiFi or Bluetooth. Sending more than 50MB over BlueTooth 2 is crazy let alone a few GB.
There will never be a subscription to wireless service on the iPod... nothing like what EVDO and 3G is doing for Sprint were laptops can connect to the Internet from anywhere. People are already pissed that they have to pay for the iPhone and expensive Cingular service... why have use pay for the iPod then wireless service... no one would pay for it. Not to mention that Sprint give customers that service already and plenty of people already have their service so why pay for something else that is used through an iPod.
Most iPod junkies are true music lovers... they don't want some gadget that they have to pay more money for.... or watch ads on. They want to listen to their music. What the market is asking for is better battery life and faster seek --> play times with flash based storage or more storage with new HDDs, not WiMax or 3G or EVDO access. And there is no way Apple can build a report with the cell companies by having them get a 'little' piece of the pie. That business model just goes no where. I mean... advertisement on what... the iPod screen? Who the hell wants that?
These things you say just aren't Apple's business model... the BTO iPod may take shape but that still isn't what Apple wants to do with the iPod... maybe the MacBook Pro Mini, but not a digital music player to keep them on top, you're going way to far way to fast with this subscription iPod thing... it was made for music and entertainment, not surfing the web and productivity.
Wireless charging is not "retarded" this is the internet, if you talk like that in real life, you might be wondering why people have a lack of respect for your thoughts
Who ever said anyone has a lack of respect for my thoughts? I say these things as they are... if it doesn't make sense then it doesn't make sense... If you said this to me in 'real life' I would be wondering my some middle school suburban kid was talking to me about business models and economic/tech market diversity and quoting Dave Chappelle skits about the Wu Tang Clan. Then you go a step further and say that you learned from watching a comedy show ... 
Step away from the expensive computer your mom bought you.
First of all, lets clear something up. I am not a "middle school suburban kid." I am actually obtaining my MBA from the University of Texas, so I believe I am certainly qualified to put my two cents down on how to feed the demand for wireless internet access. On top of that, my mother didn't buy my expensive computer, I did with the money I have worked for at my job for the past 3 years. Now that that has been cleared up... I will respond to your comments.
One, the choice of using the word retarded is a crude attempt at belittling somones idea. I personally find that word offensive, seeing as my cousin is mentally ill and she is one of the kindest people I have met. Sure she can't rationalize on the same level as many other people but that doesn't detract from her self worth as a living being. Try using more appropriate words like "unfeasible." Last I checked wireless systems don't have feelings but other people do and to have disregard for those on the internet is just irresponsible.
Who cares if you have to plug into a dock? It's still wireless! Not to mention if you read the patent carefully it has the ability to sync up with itunes and to charge wirelessly... since you didn't read the article here is the specific section I am talking about: "An Apple patent submitted in 2005 and published in February describes technology for charging an iPhone or an iPod using zero-contact induction for not only charging but data transfer -- an arrangement that requires inductive coils in both base station and device. Apple's patent covers both single coil (charging only) and two-coil (both data and charging) approaches.
Optimists speculate that Apple's inductive data-transfer technology might be used for synching, say, songs on an iPod or an iPhone. But pessimists, including Yours Truly, fear the main purpose might be locking out non-Apple products from getting in on the easy charging or preventing users from charging Apple devices on non-Apple chargers. Apple devices may need to give the secret handshake before Apple chargers give up the juice."
And if you read the last two sentences before this section, MIT came up with a way to remove your petty battery demands altogether within the immediate future. Your determination of true Ipod "Junkies" is a gross under-estimate of the true market for Ipod. First off if you want to keep the Ipod in the Cash cow sector sure don't **** with it anymore, if you want to increase it's life cycle then make the move to wireless, and the move to customization. That would move the ipod out of cash cow and back into a shing star which anyone who payed attention in marketing class could tell you.
I know from conducting a survey for a business proposal I had to write for one of my classes last semester that out of 200 people I called at random, there was over 50% of people who would pay to have their ipod work as an internet device. Which is why I proposed in my class to have Ipod create a wireless device inside of the ipod (which could be very easily done). There are numerous ways to implement such a plan, such as you said with the example of Sprint, just make the device have the ability to be hook up to the internet and give it to the people for free if they already are paying for internet access on some other device (I mean its just one of many solutions). BTW, my professor who worked in high posistions for several major fortune 500 companies said I had one of the most creative and executable ideas he had seen in the past 5 years. Which is probably why I made an A in his course.
I agree with you that the ipod was built for "entertainment purposes," which is why I had one since the days of the gen 2. However, what I am trying to hint at is more or less the ability to turn the ipod from a simple entertainment device into a multi-functioning internet ready device, that comes with a variety of options for individual needs. Not every ipod would have to come equipped with an internet ready option, but to say there is no market for such a device is sheer ignorance.
Actually I believe my ideas are exactly what the Apple business model are or used to be at any rate. Taking unthinkable but realistic concepts and turning them into a well designed product. That's why Apple is successful again, because Steve grabs the bull by the balls and doesn't let go untill he can rub it in Gate's face.
All and all great discussion, I quoted Dave Chappelle to add a bit of humor into it... Because even though it might be Wu Tang
