Silicon.com has an article on the recent Speech Steve Jobs gave at Apple’s annual European conference:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today gave strong hints that the company would not be looking to make a pure-play iPod phone or portable video player anytime soon.
With the soft launch of video podcasting and the iTunes Music Store now encouraging the purchase of albums or EPs with a free video, rumours have been rife of a video playing iPod debuting in time for Christmas stockings.
If we want to raise prices on iTunes, it just means getting a little greedy – consumers won’t like that. It will just be a message to consumers to go back to piracy and that’s not good.
So far, it seems Jobs is yet to see a demand for the device and is unimpressed with the existing video players on the market. Speaking today at Apple’s annual European conference, Apple Expo in Paris, he said: “Whether people want to buy a device just to watch video is not clear – so far the answer’s been no. Devices that do video… have not been successful yet. No-one’s figured out the right formula.”
However, he didn’t shut the door on a video playing device. “One never knows,” he added.
Bluetooth connectivity or a radio – a common feature in Windows MP3 players – are even more unlikely additions to the iPod feature set, senior Apple execs revealed today.
Looks I won’t have to get a new iPod for a while yet 
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