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To: JP Sullivan who wrote (41658)	10/27/2004 10:21:14 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213182

I'm assuming of course that most if not all digital cameras have a USB port (like my Olympus, which has a tiny 5-pin port). Since the iPod is already USB savvy, it wouldn't take too much to enable the direct download feature. Then again, it could be a battery issue--not sure how much power it would take to suck in all those images. You'd think so. Unfortunately USB 1 or 2 are not peer-to-peer interfaces like FireWire. So, if the USB on the iPod is used as a slave to your computer, it can't be used as the master for driving the camera. FireWire doesn't have that problem because either side can pump data to the other. Unfortunately, digital still cameras don't use FireWire interfaces. They use USB. I suppose Apple could have installed a second USB circuit that acted like a master, but they didn't. Another thing I wonder about is whether the Photo iPod bothers with full resolution figures. Since it can only display at very low resolution on its screen and at video resolution (640x480 or so) for TVs, why bother with full resolution pictures?.