Railroad ipod

Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

I think they'd first want to make an ipod able to receive HD Radio. It would have a broader market.

IMHO no. There's very little market for it, and apple has no experience in RF.

Conrail1990 wrote:Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

No.

Conrail1990 wrote:Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

Why, exactly, would Apple want to do this?

ATF1224 wrote:

Conrail1990 wrote:Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

Why, exactly, would Apple want to do this?

Well Apple wouldn't, but Uniden's digitally programmable scanners do almost the same thing, in that you can store frequencies in a computer database and them upload them to the scanner using a third party software program. An example; you can copy a document containing a list of frequencies and then use the software to paste only the frequencies into a spreadsheet that can be edited, then uploaded to the scanner.

cpf354 wrote:

ATF1224 wrote:

Conrail1990 wrote:Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

Why, exactly, would Apple want to do this?

Well Apple wouldn't, but Uniden's digitally programmable scanners do almost the same thing, in that you can store frequencies in a computer database and them upload them to the scanner using a third party software program. An example; you can copy a document containing a list of frequencies and then use the software to paste only the frequencies into a spreadsheet that can be edited, then uploaded to the scanner.

Yeah, but a Uniden scanner isn't an MP3 player either, which is ultimately what I believe the author was getting at.

Conrail1990 wrote:Does anybody think that in the future apple will make a ipod that is able to be programmed so it could take railroad frequincies. That would be awsome!

You are talking about combining 2 different devices. An MP3 Player and a Scanner, I would say it won't happen. The scanner market could make a recorder. And they do just not in the same device. It would be nice for some, but not that much of a market.