April 1st 2006 will be Apple’s 30th birthday. You don’t have to be a genius to work out they’ll be quite a few new offerings. But the clever money is on something quite special - would the real iPod video, please stand up!

Apple’s competition won’t see the funny side of the 6th generation iPod. They’re still shoehorning there way into a market Apple dominate, with a current market share of around 80%. Apple have been very careful not to call the current 5th generation iPod - ‘iPod Video’.

Trebling the screen real estate, a new touchscreen click wheel will be located actually on it’s new stunning 16:9 HD widescreen. And improved battery life will allow Apple to deliver the sucker punch … quality content. We expect them to launch the 6th generation iPod with a plethora of avaiable content.

Apple not so long ago prepaid $1.5 billion to secure stocks of flash memory. If the iPod incorporated a card reader, it would be a convenient way to watch movies. Freeing up a lot of space on your hard drive for music etc.

So is this hot air or a hot product? Combining numerous insider sources with Apple’s recent patent and trademark applications would suggest the latter.

The futures bright. The futures Apple.

With good quality content currently thin on the ground - some may say the April Fool is being played on the 5th generation iPod owner, about 10 million of them to date. Content is scarce

In the meantime Apple are under the microscope with claims from one American male that his iPod is going to make him deaf, should he continue listening to it the way he does! Got to love him for trying.

So does this mean, with the imminent arrival of the ‘real’ video iPod and quality iPod porn movies at websites such as “my-mojo.com” - the iPod could make us blind as well!!

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