iPod satellite - heading to Europe?

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As the iPod charges triumphantly into the holiday season thoughts are already turning to what the next generation of Apple players will hold. The grapevine has been circulating for weeks the notion that a flash memory iPod will be announced during Steve Jobs keynote at Macworld on January 11. Now the rumor mill is suggesting another unit will be unveiled that day.

Rumors are circulating that Apple has signed a deal with one of the satellite radio companies, Sirius, to market iPods that can receive and record that company's satellite broadcasts. I can't say if there is any validity to this latest bit of gossip - it is probably nothing more than someone's clever imagination - but since Think Secret's accurate scoop the other month on the iPod Photo one hesitates to dismiss it too quickly.

Think Secret obviously had an insider leak them the iPod Photo information as the specs they quoted were almost word-for-word from the press release Apple released weeks later. On a business level I was not that impressed by the iPod Photo as a concept because the cameras that take the digital pictures the iPod displays are already portable and themselves can display photographs to family and friends.

An iPod Satellite, on the other hand, offers several elements that make it compelling as a product for both consumers and manufacturer. That is what interests me most about such a player - more so than an iPod GPS or even an iPod Phone - because here there is another form of paid content to deliver to users. Frankly, its a partnership that makes good business sense.

Source: Newswire

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