David's World

January 10, 2005

Life is Random

So tomorrow morning, 9 am local time in San Francisco, Apple will unveil a new iPod. One without a harddrive, but with a memory-chip inside, maybe good for some twohundred-odd songs.

As of late, fans are anxiously awaiting news from Steve Job's keynote presentation. Rumor sites have been... rumoring, and showing fotos of workers hanging some big ads saying "Life is random". Here's my guess: the device, smaller than your average iPod, yet white of color (according to what I've heard), will come without a screen. After all, life is random, and so should your music. The thing will be able to randomly play some song - and probably not much more.

That's a good idea - that's all I want on the road. The keychain based devices can only have a very small screen, a screen too small to provide a good user interface. So, let's get rid of it. Instead, there's more room for more variety - I am hoping for a full gigabyte of music.

Let's see.

(On another account, Jack Bauer is back. Off the drugs, and more convinced of himself than ever.)