Apple teams up with airlines for iPod integration - Engadget

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:11 PM EST

Article Source: Engadget

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iPod-integration is everywhere. Apple is teaming up with Air France, Conteniental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United to add charging, audio and video integration to their airplanes. It should be available in mid-2007.

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Sean Balsiger

You beat me to it by 5 minutes. I U.S Airways was one of the airlines since that's the only one I ever fly on. :(

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#1 - Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:15 PM EST

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Kyle Baxter

Is U.S. Airways one of the carriers working with Apple, or did you mean you wish they were? If the latter, the article says that Apple will be working with other airlines soon as well, so your wish may be granted. :)

Kyle

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#2 - Tue Nov 14, 2006 5:27 PM EST

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Sean Balsiger

Wow, my comment make absolutely no sense. I was saying the latter though. I always fly U.S. Air so of course they weren't one of the airlines with integration. The other thing though is that it looks like this is mostly just for international flights because most domestic flights don't have T.Vs in the setbacks that you could play video on.

While this is nice I would much rather have a power plug that I could plug in my Macbook to so that I could just use it to listen to music and watch video. I know that Apple has that adapter but I'm not sure if that works on all planes or not and that's a lot of money to spend on something if it isn't going to work on all planes.

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