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iPod owners begin 'jack sharing'
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<blockquote data-quote="Murlyn" data-source="post: 14750" data-attributes="member: 184"><p><strong>Feel Free to Jack Into My iPod</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0099FF">Wired.com</span></a></strong></p><p> </p><p> <a href="https://www.wired.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod</span></strong></span></a></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #0099FF">02:00 AM Nov. 21, 2003 PT</span></p><p></p><p>Dennis Lloyd, publisher of the <a href="http://www.ipodlounge.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366CC">iPodlounge</span></a>, said he was only aware of jack sharing through a <a href="https://www.ilounge.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366CC">thread</span></a> started by Crandall on the site's forums. But he liked the idea.</p><p></p><p>"With so many people plugged in these days, it's nice to hear people are actually connecting in the real world," he said. "Reach out and jack someone."</p><p></p><p>Author <a href="http://www.rushkoff.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366CC">Douglas Rushkoff</span></a> suggested that iPod sharing is a legacy of online file sharing -- essentially the same thing, except offline.</p><p></p><p>"It's kind of a stoner's ethic, really, the way you pass the joint at a Dead show," he said.</p><p></p><p>Sharing an iPod through its headphone jack is also a crude, low-tech version of what some predict is the real killer application of future iPods: transforming them into short-distance broadcasting devices by adding Bluetooth or similar radio technology, coupled with Rendezvous, an Apple-developed networking technology that allows devices to discover each other automatically.</p><p></p><p>The prospect of letting iPod users listen to each other's libraries wirelessly has sparked numerous excited forum posts on the iPodlounge and other sites.</p><p></p><p><em>The Register</em>'s Andrew Orlowski, for example, has suggested several times that turning an iPod into a personal micro-radio station would be "revolutionary."</p><p></p><p>"It would greatly annoy the RIAA, which would argue that it's a portable Napster," he <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28372.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366CC">wrote</span></a> in 2002. "But ... this music-sharing appliance could have fairly dramatic social effects.... You could get promiscuous with strangers: You could pair and exchange a song on the same short bus ride. You could create short, ad hoc personal broadcasts, to anyone else with a Bluetooth iPod. You could have a 'What am I listening to?' menu option and share your choice with anyone within discoverable range."</p><p></p><p>Taking Orlowski's "what am I listening to?" option to its logical conclusion, others have suggested that files received wirelessly could be looked up automatically on Apple's iTunes Music Store when users plug their iPods into their main computer. Users would then be asked if they wanted to buy and download the tunes they heard on the road.</p><p> </p><p><em><strong>My Comments:</strong> Well there you go.. there is your idea in print <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murlyn, post: 14750, member: 184"] [B]Feel Free to Jack Into My iPod Source: [URL='http://www.wired.com'][COLOR=#0099FF]Wired.com[/COLOR][/URL][/B] [URL='https://www.wired.com/'][COLOR=black][B][SIZE=3]Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod[/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#0099FF]02:00 AM Nov. 21, 2003 PT[/COLOR] Dennis Lloyd, publisher of the [URL='http://www.ipodlounge.com/'][COLOR=#3366CC]iPodlounge[/COLOR][/URL], said he was only aware of jack sharing through a [URL='https://www.ilounge.com/'][COLOR=#3366CC]thread[/COLOR][/URL] started by Crandall on the site's forums. But he liked the idea. "With so many people plugged in these days, it's nice to hear people are actually connecting in the real world," he said. "Reach out and jack someone." Author [URL='http://www.rushkoff.com/'][COLOR=#3366CC]Douglas Rushkoff[/COLOR][/URL] suggested that iPod sharing is a legacy of online file sharing -- essentially the same thing, except offline. "It's kind of a stoner's ethic, really, the way you pass the joint at a Dead show," he said. Sharing an iPod through its headphone jack is also a crude, low-tech version of what some predict is the real killer application of future iPods: transforming them into short-distance broadcasting devices by adding Bluetooth or similar radio technology, coupled with Rendezvous, an Apple-developed networking technology that allows devices to discover each other automatically. The prospect of letting iPod users listen to each other's libraries wirelessly has sparked numerous excited forum posts on the iPodlounge and other sites. [I]The Register[/I]'s Andrew Orlowski, for example, has suggested several times that turning an iPod into a personal micro-radio station would be "revolutionary." "It would greatly annoy the RIAA, which would argue that it's a portable Napster," he [URL='http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28372.html'][COLOR=#3366CC]wrote[/COLOR][/URL] in 2002. "But ... this music-sharing appliance could have fairly dramatic social effects.... You could get promiscuous with strangers: You could pair and exchange a song on the same short bus ride. You could create short, ad hoc personal broadcasts, to anyone else with a Bluetooth iPod. You could have a 'What am I listening to?' menu option and share your choice with anyone within discoverable range." Taking Orlowski's "what am I listening to?" option to its logical conclusion, others have suggested that files received wirelessly could be looked up automatically on Apple's iTunes Music Store when users plug their iPods into their main computer. Users would then be asked if they wanted to buy and download the tunes they heard on the road. [I][B]My Comments:[/B] Well there you go.. there is your idea in print :)[/I] [/QUOTE]
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