Re: Cutting Edge

My bet is that they may have changed the CPU, or alternately the
introduction of the new data connector has involved different I/O chips.
It may also be the case that the new connector provides additional
sense lines which could not be simulated using the firewire connector
on older iPods.

Like Eduardo I liked the elegance of the way the firewire port was used
on the original iPods. However, I suspect moving to support USB
necessitated the use of a proprietary connector (unless Apple wanted to
ship different USB and Firewire versions which results in different problems).

Lets face it, support for USB is aimed at building the Windows market
which makes good business sense. I'm just hoping that they have designed
the new connector to support future growth so that it does not need to be
changed with each new iPod model allowing investment in accessories to
be carried forward.

I suspect that the new hardware/connector may allow the use of firewire/usb
over the connector while the iPod is in "Play" mode, thus allowing Apple or
third parties to develop software and periperals for the iPod. This is just a
guess, but it would make sense. (And though I have not yet seen one of
the new iPods in person, the new connector seems to have an awful lot of
lines for something which only supports usb/firewire connectivity.)

    ...Michael Richmond

At 17:11 02/05/03, you wrote:
>The issue is, does the new IPod have more controls? If so, then it won't
>likely ever be possible. If however, they only moved the controls around,
>then its quite do-able
>
>At 12:30 PM 4/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
> > > It looks like we don't get the cool new features like on the go play =
> > > lists
> > > and the new games that come with the new iPod...
> >
> >Yea, I can confirm this, my coworker updated his scroll-wheel mac iPod and
> >didn't get all the new stuff.  What a disappointment -- Can anyone attest to
> >the contrary?
> >
> >However, I would suspect someone will figure out how to install the 3G 
> iPod's
> >firmware on the 1G and 2G iPods.
> >
> >cheers,
> >-steve

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Michael Richmond
Department of Computer Sciences           e-mail: [email protected]
Purdue University, Indiana                phone:  +1 (765) 494 6634 


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