What would this bluetooth be for? Streaming music? My impression was that airport extreme with airtunes doesn't even work all that well. How could bluetooth handle it?
That's mostly because of the expensive way that Airtunes does it. The music is streamed as an Apple lossless stream to the Airport Extreme meaning that it's taking up a lot of network bandwidth. If you've got poor reception, it drops signal. That saves on the AE having to know how to decode mp3 or aac and allows them to use the much simpler lossless format for full CD audio too without losing fidelity.
They could just about do it with Bluetooth 2.0 but that's only in the very most recent Powerbooks and it's still too slow to sync music at about a third of USB1.1 speeds theoretically.
I think this will just be a control feature to link up with other bluetooth accessories and phones or at most it'll let you sync address book and calendar entries.
Oh, and the major thing for me, is being able to download direct from a camera via USB. It's the one reason I'd want an iPod Photo - being able to offload my camera's photos mid trip. I could care less about the colour screen, bluetooth or printer connection, just make the iPod Photo the digital wallet it's crying out to be.
I'd guess, the lacklustre sales were also because a lot of people were unimpressed by the iPod Photo's extra features too.
i hope they be nice and leave in all the bonus accesories in the iPod photo box...i remember getting my 3g 20 gb iPod and everything i needed was in the box. dont be cheap apple!
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Originally posted by BRussell
What would this bluetooth be for? Streaming music? My impression was that airport extreme with airtunes doesn't even work all that well. How could bluetooth handle it?
That's mostly because of the expensive way that Airtunes does it. The music is streamed as an Apple lossless stream to the Airport Extreme meaning that it's taking up a lot of network bandwidth. If you've got poor reception, it drops signal. That saves on the AE having to know how to decode mp3 or aac and allows them to use the much simpler lossless format for full CD audio too without losing fidelity.
They could just about do it with Bluetooth 2.0 but that's only in the very most recent Powerbooks and it's still too slow to sync music at about a third of USB1.1 speeds theoretically.
I think this will just be a control feature to link up with other bluetooth accessories and phones or at most it'll let you sync address book and calendar entries.
The Apple Store is down...
I'd guess, the lacklustre sales were also because a lot of people were unimpressed by the iPod Photo's extra features too.
As for BT, I think the iPod still has some functionality that will be added by 3rd parties, syching iLife and all.
I think the 6 Gig Shuffle is also a sweet spot and so is the price point for 20Gigs.
So I think Apple hit 2 out of my 3 sweet spots.