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I think a WiFi iPod could compete too, if it can streem from the iPod to a stereo and you could just look at the display in your hand, though I tend to think that battery life would be severly limited in this mode of use.
This strikes me as a likely mode of operation. The iPod already has the form factor of a remote control and a well known UI. So it could serve as both the controller, storage device and streamer.
Streaming could occur over Bluetooth or WiFi to some sort of slave device that would plug into the fixed stereo. If they do Bluetooth for headphones, then that channel is already in place. The slave device would be just like Bluetooth headphones, only with RCA outs rather then earbud transducers.
Battery life would be a concern. Of course it would be simple enough to add a charging dock to the slave device as a convenient place to park the Pod when you weren't using it as a remote.
All this being said, it would still not serve as any sort of SB replacement. Not for me anyway. It can't store anything like my whole library and is far from being high fidelity. Useful in a boombox sort of way, maybe.
Though I'd have to think that folks with smaller libraries, who aren't aware of or concerned with audio fidelity issues might find this pretty compelling.
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