FlyPod June 21, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : apple, gadgets , trackbackApple needs to keep innovating in order to stay a step ahead of Microsoft’s rumoured iPod killer. Since iPod integration with your car is now passe, the next industry Apple should be trying to suck up to, errr, I mean partner with is the airlines. I want my seat to have a universal iPod dock dammit! And the ability to display video (for 5G and unreleased-video-ipod owners) on the seatback display would be fantastic for long-haul flights. So who’s going to provide it first? Groovy, funky Virgin Atlantic? Emirates? C’mon, someone get onto this quick!
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[…] With today’s announcement by Apple that they are teaming up with six major airlines (via tuaw) to provide seamless in-flight iPod integration I feel justified in having made an earlier prediction of such a deal! Hey, I even got one of the airlines right; Emirates joins Air France, Continental, Delta, KLM and United. I am surprised that Virgin Atlantic didn’t get involved. […]
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