Apple Makes Deal with Airlines
The iPod is currently the world's best-selling digital audio player and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands. The creators, Apple, have teamed up with six different airlines to enable them to offer passengers seat connections that will power and charge their iPods during flight and allow the video content on their iPods to be viewed on the back of the seat's displays.
Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM and United, will have the option available in mid-2007, but those airlines probably will be just the beginning of many. Apple said it is working with Panasonic Avionics Corporation to bring in-flight iPod connectivity to more leading airlines. Apparently, they are going to be using a system that is solely ipod-friendly, so no other players will work. This gives iPod an advantage over its competitors once again.
Seemingly everyone (including myself) wants an iPod these days, making it well ahead in popularity of all other players, and it's no surprise that they've already sold 70 million units. Where in the world do these teenagers come up with $300 to spend so freely and guiltlessly?! When you find the answer please let me know so I can buy one! Apple's booming iTunes store online offers over 3.5 million songs, 65,000 podcasts, 20,000 audiobooks, 5,000 music videos, 250 television shows and 100 movies. I too have tapped into the wonder that is iTunes and must admit that it is a heavenly abyss of musical and visual entertainment.
Delta must agree because its expecting to equip its entire domestic transcontinental fleet with those little suckers, fully functional by 2008. Also, Delta gave the news about its fall launch of an upgraded transcontinental product that includes digital, in-flight entertainment with on-demand movies and live satellite television.
With the expansion of the iPod in this manner, the airline company expects to offer it to all travelers on domestic flights longer than four hours by the end of 2008. So get ready all you travelers who love iPods! A new generation of flights awaits you!
Labels: airplane, entertainment, Flights, foreign travel, ipod
