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

[Roger Howard]

On Tue, November 14, 2006 1:57 pm, j o a r wrote:
>
> 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!

Yeah, seriously - forget the display, just give me power and an eye-level
iPod holder! My only problems with watching video on my flights are 1)
power; 2) positioning the iPod without either massive neckstrain or an arm
going to sleep.

> 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.

I'm not sure that's a good thing... is that connector really good enough
for such ubiquitious use? I'd love to see MagSafe-type connectors
everywhere personally.