14 DAY TRIAL // An iPod is a portable device that allows you to store and listen to your favorite music without the need of any other application. All you need to do is to connect your device to the computer, transfer your music and then listen as long as the batteries can go on.
Wikipedia offers a similar definition of the term: "iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer and launched in 2001. Devices in the iPod range are primarily music players, designed around a central scroll wheel (although the iPod shuffle has buttons only). The full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital audio players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices."
It seems like the future of iPods will not be related to music, becoming a portable device that will allow storing anything from videos to other files.
Nikesh Arora, Google's VP of European operations, said at the FT World Communications Conference that iPods will represent the entire world's TV in 12 years.
"In 12 years, why not an iPod that can carry any video ever produced? It's clearly begun happening. Mobile is not going to be a different thing and if the mobile industry is to capitalize on the growth of content, it would be wise to ape the development of the internet.
The mobile industry has to go through the same phases the internet has gone through... Mobile will have the same learning curve. It would be somewhat foolish to leapfrog the stages the internet went through," he said.
Even if the company's employee refused to say that the future of iPods will be influenced by Google, it's almost obvious that the giant search engine will create exclusive services for iPods.