What I meant to say

By Dave Winer on 1/14/07; 5:13:30 PM.

Yesterday's essay has gotten a lot of pointage and comments, but so far no one has pulled the key quote from the piece, probably because I buried it. So here it is, standing on its own. 

"The iPod is a wonderful product, but damn it's time we made one that could run our software, could run any software, so users have choice, and so you don't have to buy new hardware to get software features, and so the market can grow at the rate of innovation, not at the whim of one marketer." 

Perhaps people can agree with this. Apple could even make it, a limited edition iPod that runs Mac software and allows us to add commands to the iPod user interface.  

You never know what might come from this, after all Apple didn't invent all the cool stuff that's come along in the last few years.