First iPod Car Stereo - Without the CD
03.21.07 - 01:02pm
Over 70 million iPods have been sold, and the little white earbuds have become a cultural phenomenon in the 21st century. Car integration has been going on for a while now but in a new step Alpine Electronics is producing the “first fully integrated iPod experience” - without retaining a spot for the CD.
For a while now people have wondered whether the iPod and MP3’s will begin to replace the CD, especially after Apple settled with the Beatles out of court allowing them to sell iPods pre-loaded with music for the first time. Since then the talk has been of small iPods coming out with albums preloaded for the consumer (like the CD only on an iPod). If made smaller with less song capacity it could happen and Apple has already released an iPod preloaded with “Water”, perhaps as a test case in India, and with Alpine making audio systems without adding the CD it would seem that things are moving in that direction.
