The Macworld event is an annual rite for the Mac faithful, who accord the conference a reverence approaching that surrounding baseball's spring training. Each year there is impassioned speculation about what Mr. Jobs may or may not be planning for the coming year. In recent years a handful of Macintosh rumor Web sites have fed the frenzy by publishing ostensibly leaked product descriptions of the coming announcements.
I'd like Jobs to announce An Idea Whose Time Has Come Back:
the iPod Reader .
UPDATE in response to first comment: And I'm thinking of a screen a bit larger, maybe suitable for middle-age eyes and the reading of a book. But thanks for the tip and I guess your larger point is that the current iPod is on the trajectory and could well become a reading device.
(Btw, my own particular interest in the matter, beyond the obvious one that it would a convenience personally, is that I would like to "port" my book City Comforts to ebook format.)
You can mostly do that already. There are applications that let you sync websites/RSS with your ipod. Check out Book2Pod:
http://www.tomsci.com/book2pod/
Posted by: Pradeep | Jan 10, 2005 at 02:46 PM