27 February 2007

Cover Flow on iPod?

The video of Cover Flow on an iPod has been seen pretty much everywhere; some say it’s a fake, some say it’s an upcoming firmware update for all 5G iPods.

On the one hand, if it’s a fake, it’s a damn good one (although uploading it to YouTube makes it easier, because video compression mangles any revealing details); on the other, I thought it was pretty much established now that Apple was using accounting rules as an excuse to never ever add a feature to products that have already been released ? Even if they were to include Cover Flow in iPods (which I doubt — that’s the iPhone’s thing, and as far as we know the Apple TV doesn’t have it) why would they start releasing upgrades for existing iPods?