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To: Done, gone. who wrote (41645)	10/27/2004 1:34:09 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

>>No built-in Card slot! iTunes is be used to sync photos but appears to downsample them for display on the iPod Photo.<< Michal - If the iPod was going to be able to download images directly from a camera or some type of media, there would be a couple of problems. First, unless the thing had a standard USB port, Apple would have to choose one type of memory card to support. If they started trying to cram multiple slots into the thing it would quickly become too bulky. Second, raw images from virtually all digital cameras would be too large for the screen to display. If you wanted to view them on the iPod's screen, then the iPod itself would have to do the graphics processing. It doesn't have that powerful a CPU, nor enough RAM for that. If you wanted to add the components necessary for resampling image files, you'd suddenly be looking at a much larger and more expensive device. So what I'm thinking is that Apple did what they could, given what an iPod can do. - Allen