[link|http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,34982,FF.html|Apple's 21st-Century Walkman] talks about the potential of the iPod. Brent is pretty jazzed with it and is seeing visions of how things could be. Personally I think he's been too close to Job's Reality Distortion Field. But there's no denying the potential iPod has to change some well established conventions. 32M of RAM, 5G of disk, CPU (power?) and fast connectivity to the base station. Sheesh, that was an average desktop not so long ago. The only question in my mind is, can they sell it? $400 is pretty steep and the install base that can use it might not be large enough to make it profitable.

I can't see that Apple would make a Windows app compatible with the iPod, there aren't very many Windows machine out there with Firewire on them. Would the average Windows user spend $400 on an iPod, $100 for a Firewire card and the hassles of making it work? Would Apple put up with that? Hey, just get an iMac...