Apple Teams Up With Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM & United to Deliver iPod Integration

[j o a r]

On 14 nov 2006, at 18.41, Kevin Callahan wrote:

> CUPERTINO, California—November 14, 2006—Apple® today announced it  
> is teaming up with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM  
> and United to deliver the first seamless integration between iPod®  
> and in-flight entertainment systems. These six airlines will begin  
> offering their passengers iPod seat connections which power and  
> charge their iPods during flight and allow the video content on  
> their iPods to be viewed on the their seat back displays.

Why anyone would want to view video on the _awful_ seat back displays  
is beyond my comprehension. I'd probably rather just use the iPod.  
Being able to charge the iPod is of course nice though!

But you know what this means? The "iPod connector" will soon be a  
standard connector used for lots of things - and not only iPods. Much  
like the cigarette lighter plug in you find in cars - and lots of  
other places where it's obviously just used for power, and not  
cigarettes.

j o a r