Phones and Music 2G
Big news out there these days, everybody talking about the iPhone that was announced by a nervous Steve Jobs on Tuesday calming down while starting to present the new phone. A phone combined with an iPod that is operated by a next generation, easy to use touch screen, a really Apple like state of the art user interface! Apart from that it offers the recent most advanced features for mail, internet, etc. Most of that stuff you can download to any phone today from Yahoo! Go.
Let's look at the iPhone from the angle “will the network kill the iPod”? It can be looked at as a strategy to prevent exactly this happening. More and more phones already have the ability to play music. Over time the phone will replace the iPod. The compelling advantage of the phone being it offers a connection to the network! The next step could be that iTunes will offer a streaming service to listen to any music on the phone while you go and in addition you may have your iTunes library on the web, with your playlists and your personal music being streamed to your phone and made available anywhere, anytime. Vodafone together with Sony just announced Radio Dj for 3G phones. A really complete service to get to know new music like with last.fm and also the possibility to download music. That's were we're headed and forgive me but I have to mention Sun's motto again: “the Network is the Computer”!
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04:24PM Jan 13, 2007
by Volker Seubert in Sun |
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