John Gruber has posted a small writeup about his thoughts on the "confirmed" upcoming OS X-based iPods (Daring Fireball: Regarding OS X-Based iPods).
It's worth a read, even if he does sort of point out the obvious: the current iPods are yesterday's news.When Steve Jobs first demonstrated the iPhone at Macworld in January, one of the first things I said to my wife was "Wow. If they introduce something like that as an iPod, I am so getting one." I've mentioned before that the iPhone just doesn't do it for me. I rarely use a cell-phone and refuse to be tied down to a two-year contract at a minimum of $60 per month for a devise that I would rarely actually use as a phone. The iPhone just is not for me. And that's fine.
However, introduce an iPhone-like iPod that does pretty much everything the iPhone does just without the phone or data-plan and then my attention is focused. I would buy something like that. As long as it was around current iPod prices.
Of course, the question is, when Steve Jobs said they are working on OS X-based iPods, what exactly did he mean? Did he mean something that really is an iPhone minus the phone part? Did he mean just an iPod that worked the same way as the iPhone's iPod module works? Or did he mean something completely different?
That's the key question.
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