What next for the iPod?

another gem from news.softpedia.com:

There's not a living soul who isn't thrilled about iPod nano. Steve Jobs can congratulate himself once again for hitting the jackpot.Like a magician, Steve Jobs has succeeded to set a new standard for MP3 Players, which won't be easy to match. But what will happen after iPod nano?

In less than a year, the iPod nano revelation would have lost its hypnotizing power forcing Steve Jobs to come up with something new. But what improvements can be made to an almost perfect device? A higher storage capacity, an extended battery life (over the 14 hours already offered by iPod nano)? Surely this will be the iPod nano we'll see 6 months from now. And then what? iPod video or iPod pico, 60% smaller than the nano? (any smaller than that and we would lose it...)I think that we are in for something more spectacular.

Talking about the changes Microsoft is going through, Steve Jobs made an interesting comment that it's wrong to separate the technology in applications, hardware and services. Hence, in two years, when the batteries will be advanced enough to ensure 24 hours of functioning time, and the storage units (flash memories or hard-disk) will be enough for tens of GBs of space, Steve Jobs' dream will come true: Mac OS X running on an iPod.

Think about it for a second what it would mean to run Mac OS X on the iPod nano, provided that the device has Internet access provided via a WiMax connection. And if it comes with VoIP support, would you ever buy a PDA or a cell phone? I think not.

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