iPod Nano is Harry Potter's Camera

Apple changes the world again, but this time no-one appears to have noticed.

When apple released the first all in one imac, personal computers
changed forever - legacy interconnects died and USB took over the
world. And, how a computer looked became important- allowing the home
pc to move out of the study into the living room and bed room.

The iPhone turned phones into pocket computers in a way psion only dreamed of.

The iPod nano has a camera - millions of teens and young adults will
get a nano for christmas and have a decent (enough) camera in their
pocket every day - better than many phones and penetrating further
into the population than the high end phones with decent cameras (like
the ones made by sony).

The iPod nano has a camera that only takes moving video.

The iPod nano has a camera that does not take still images.

Now given that to make a movie you have to take still photos at about
24 times per second - the reason why the nano doesn't take stills is
because Steve said he didn't want it to.  What does he know that we
don't.

This christmas millions of homes will record christmas on their IPod
nano not as a series of stills but as moving pictures - long and
short.

Will next years photo album look like Harry Potters with all the
images being a 2 or 3 second moving image on a loop?

Steve thinks so.

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