Apple Music Stations

[Mudbug]

Re: Reality check

Originally posted by delton05
Before you all faint with excitment...

How long would any access port, firewire or whatever, be functional before someone plugs it up with gum or spray paint???

Minutes... in most locations.

Well, I welcome you to put gum or spray paint all over my airport extreme base station and see how well it performs.

(not really, but you get the point...)

 

[Mudbug]

Re: iFlicks sounds great

Originally posted by Waluigi
I realize this is a few years off

Why? All the technology (save for the user interface, and encoded content) exists today. Content wouldn't take very long to get, especially with a "standard format" for each broadcaster to use (i.e. mpg4) at a standard bitrate and translation size, and interface could be a not very modified version of iTunes. I'd bet there are enough people in this forum alone that could put one together with the right beginning source code to work with.

<goes off to ponder the idea for REAL...>

 

[delton05]

Oh... for downloading a trancoded DVD at an airport you'd use airport extreme? Perhaps, you'd miss your fight with it's comparitively slow speed compared to FW. iPods don't have airport extreme either...

 

[mkaake]

Originally posted by mudbug65
uh... the iPod is ALSO a firewire HD, so bringing your music home from an applestore kiosk and transferring it to your main computer would be as easy as drag and drop.

that was my first thought. i don't actually have an ipod (wish i had the money, but then if i did, i prolly wouldn't be stuck in an os 9 world right now), but i assumed that using at as an external hard drive was simple as could be. like really simple. so why would you have this big problem? instead of syncing with itunes, just drag and drop from your ipod to your music folder...

but whatever. i guess since i don't really know from personal experience i could be wayy wayy off, but it seems like everyone is trying to make this harder than what it is...

matt

 

[mkaake]

would be freakin awesome to be able to download tv shows... direct to the mac, or even at a kiosk to an ipod to put on your mac when you get home...

matt

 

[Mudbug]

Originally posted by mkaake
that was my first thought. i don't actually have an ipod (wish i had the money, but then if i did, i prolly wouldn't be stuck in an os 9 world right now), but i assumed that using at as an external hard drive was simple as could be. like really simple. so why would you have this big problem? instead of syncing with itunes, just drag and drop from your ipod to your music folder...

but whatever. i guess since i don't really know from personal experience i could be wayy wayy off, but it seems like everyone is trying to make this harder than what it is...

matt

But the point is that it wouldn't be plug, unplug, and go. you'd be adding a bunch of steps to accomplish the same goal. While you and I would have no problem with this, the average Joe off the street probably would have problems with it, especially if they were PC iPod owners.

 

[LimeiBook86]

Re: Reality check

Originally posted by delton05
Before you all faint with excitment...

How long would any access port, firewire or whatever, be functional before someone plugs it up with gum or spray paint???

Minutes... in most locations.

I would guess and Apple employee would stand there to glance at the user and provide help. Also they can make a door to a CD-RW drive and a FireWire port slide open once money is inserted. Problem solved...

 

[NavyIntel007]

Re: Re: Apple Music Stations

Originally posted by The Shadow
Can we have some PERSPECTIVE please, in the reporting? I'm just getting a bit frustrated with the "World Series Baseball" mentality (the World meaning the US).

Yeah, there are these two teams called the Blue Jays and the Expos that play in Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec. Last time I checked, those were CANADIAN provinces. You need to watch yourself, I know some Canadians who would bite your head off if you included them in the US.

 

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by eric_n_dfw
Not to mention that lumping Canada into the USA is grounds for war!

LOL... except it would have to be during the winter cause Canadians can't fight without skates on. (good thing my girlfriend never goes to this site)

 

[Rower_CPU]

Let's continue the Safari vs Camino discussion here.