Newsweek editor discusses iPod in live chat
updated 11:30 pm EDT, Sun July 25, 2004
Newsweek iPod chat
A with Newsweek Senior Editor Stephen Levy on the iPod notes that the Newsweek's breaking iPod story was a planned early announcement (and not a leak or snafu) as well as discusses the possibility of a 60GB iPod, third-party iPod software development, the pending US Anti-Copyright legislation ("The Induce Act"), the iPod's battery, future compatibility issues, pricing issues, iTunes Music Store compression, the HP iPod, and more: "The point of our story, I guess, is that the iPod indeed has by virtue of its technology and style become the definitive device for digital music. It would be great if others tried to match its innovation and value and created a great competition in this field (then I bet we would see compatibility between devices sooner, as consumers would demand it)."
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Toshiba/Hitatchi
Mr. Levy says that Hitatchi "let it slip that they are making a 60-gig drive," but wasn't that Toshiba? Hitatchi makes the 1-inch drive in the mini, but Toshiba makes the 1.8-inch drive in the "maxi".