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Ipod left out of the limelight at Macworld

Macworld Opens with Major New Product Announcements …that are, for iPod, not “major” and, not “new” .

Not a particularly impressive event for iPod owners. OK, there were some sessions for educators to promote the use of iPods and/or iPhones in the classroom that may have been of interest to a very select few. But otherwise the event was fairly ho hum for iPod owners.

The only “new” products worth mentioning, are the Phoenix iPod Recovery System - designed to:

recover music files, video files, podcasts, audiobooks and other inaccessible media from frozen or damaged equipment.

But even so, its not “new” . It was reviewed by Softpedia back in August 2008, and anyway, there are other products that do this, so the concept is not new, either. So not a really life altering announcement!

Stellar provide a free demo version of the software (you can download from their site). The demo version will repair corrupted and deleted music and video files (not clear if other media files are also repaired with the demo) BUT, you can only save the recovered music and video files by purchasing the full version of the software!!

So not sure what the benefits of the free demo are? Perhaps its just a hook to get us to try - then tell us “yes, we have detected 300 music and video files that are corrupted and they are now repaired…. and if you purchase the software you can have them! Still, at $US39.99, that might be worth it?

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The second “new” product is, in fact, the debut for:

the 3rd generation of the Hookup- Lanyard, which wirelessly connects the iPod nano or iPod touch to a cell phone

Again, a useful tool - no doubt about it. But 3rd generation is hardly worthy of the title: “major new product”!

Perhaps of more interest is the new iPod Docking station with WiFi streaming capability that Lenntek also plans to release at Macworld. However, whilst this capability may be new to Lenntek,its not new to the iPod world! There are, after all, other docking stations already on the market with these capabilities.

So a disappointing event for iPod owners with little to excite and sadly, nothing worth lining up for hours or days to get!

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