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

[Kevin Callahan]

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Roger Howard wrote:

> 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.

what about a pair of glasses that display the iPod-video output ?

I think some products are available

anybody have one ? tried one?


>
>> 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.