“It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”

~Steve Jobs

(This was said at the June 2007 D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, CA. Jobs was referring to Apple’s popular iTunes music program being available to Windows OS users.)

My co-worker had an idea for an iPod accessory. What is the use of a remote to control the music played on your iPod if you can’t see the songs on the iPod? Maybe you’re like me and don’t want to listen to every song in the playlist and like to bounce from playlist to playlist. As you can see the remote operation doesn’t do me much good since my eyesight isn’t good enough to see the iPod screen 10 feet away–even if I could control the playlist selection from a distance. So my co-worker’s idea is to have an accessory that attaches to the iPod, making the iPod the remote control in and of itself. I would have the ability to scroll through my playlists and songs and then when I hit play, it would transmit the music to the stereo. So, if there are any iPod R&D people out there, please see what you can do.

What kind of things would you want your iPod to do?

What do you think, what’s Apple’s next big leap in the iPod market? Is cell phone where they’re headed?

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