A few years ago the music player device space was incredibly boring. The Sony Walkman CD player was the last big thing in music players, and it had long since become irrelevant. Products from RIO, which was going through a bankruptcy, and Creative Labs were anything but exciting. Then, from left field a PC company, Apple Computer, entered the marketplace with its iTunes MP3 players. The rest is history.
I think that you are on the right tack as regards integration but these devices usa XP and will never sell in large numbers because of that. It's that "trusted" thing again. If however Apple were to say do a Newton 2 using all the new technologies and it's iPod flavour built in that could work because it doesn't suffer from the "trusted" thing. The last iterations of the Newton were capable of all this sans the phone and video as those technologies weren't quite "there" then.
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The Next Big Thing: What Will Displace iPod, Follow Blackberry?
Posted by: Rob Enderle February 6, 2006 05:00 AMA few years ago the music player device space was incredibly boring. The Sony Walkman CD player was the last big thing in music players, and it had long since become irrelevant. Products from RIO, which was going through a bankruptcy, and Creative Labs were anything but exciting. Then, from left field a PC company, Apple Computer, entered the marketplace with its iTunes MP3 players. The rest is history.