Tag: videoipod

In his latest blog post, Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg aims to explain Apple’s thinking behind not releasing a video iPod. “Unlike music, it’s illegal to rip a DVD to your hard drive, Pixar or otherwise. Simple. No same company wants to get into that legal issue with the studios and provide those tools. Not Apple. Not Microsoft… The only other source of legal video content is recorded TV and Apple at the moment has no interest in playing in that market. Should they?

This will not be any great surprise to Mac users who follow Apple news on a regular basis, but Apple has no immediate plans to market a video iPod and analysts agree, reports Reuters. Apple CEO Steve Jobs told David Pogue in an interview for The New York Times in January, “Now, I’m not saying we’re not working on something like that.

According to a new job posting on Apple’s Web site, the company is looking for an engineer with experience in “overall system design of audio and video products” to develop a next generation iPod product. An iPod with video support has been rumored for quite some time.