Originally Posted by mayonaise
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well the emphasis is still on being an audio player. the video feature is just apple testing the waters of the portable video player market. i think the eventual point is to have wider format support. currently, the ITMS videos will only be 320x240, which is pretty weak. i don't think anyone's going to have much fun staring at a 2.5" screen for hours, either. but keep in mind, you can hook it up to a TV. DVD quality video is pertinent, then. if you can carry around dozens of DVD's worth of videos on a device as small as an ipod, and hook it up to any TV anywhere you go, i think it'd be a lot more useful. absolutely not a must-have-to-live item, but still pretty cool.
Ok I give it up to apple for pushing technologies limits and making innovations.
What I don't think they should do is make releases every other week with new items for it. develop and test the items, then announce a large scale release every 6 months or maybe every 3 months even. It sure would lighten the aspect of them playing market dominance which is something they have been at battle with MS about for a while now, even took them to court over it and now look at them.