iPod 300GB & 600GB instead of 30GB & 60GB Ipods?

[Applespider]

If you move your finger fast, not many revolutions. The faster you move your finger the more it scrolls.

I'm already tired of the scroll wheel since mine seems unusually sensitive since it seems to go pretty slowly through A to D and then suddenly ends up at T. I spend more time going counterclockwise bit by bit these days.

 

[luckylisp]

The other problem here is whether there is a big enough market for it.There was a stat fairly recently that said that most people have less than 200 songs on their iPods. The 60GB models sell fewer than the 30GB by a wide margin - the mass market just doesn't have that much storage speed needed and that's what the iPod is aimed at..

Even before seeing those stats, I just couldn't see there being much of a market for a 300 or 600 gb iPod, that's just so much space. I think it would only appeal to a small group of people really, it wouldn't be worth the effort for the most part.

 

[adk]

People don't use lossless right now because that would mean leaving some of their prescious music behind. But what if in 5 years down the road you could have it both ways? Have the same capacity for the same price but using Lossless they would preffer that wouldn't they? Then as their music libraries got bigger and started looking for a bigger player, they would go with a different mindset of how much capacity they need, hence the over 100GB iPods.

A number of things need to change before apple lossless (or .wav for that matter) becomes the industry norm. Ipods would need to be able to play the format without spinning the hard drive as often as today or battery life won't be too good. Hard Drives Continue to grow, so storage isn't/won't be an issue. But in order for an uncompressed format to become mainstream, there has to be a new way of downloading it. I'm not sure if that means faster broadband or what, but people aren't going to want to spend hours downloading one album.

 

[NicP]

A number of things need to change before apple lossless (or .wav for that matter) becomes the industry norm. Ipods would need to be able to play the format without spinning the hard drive as often as today or battery life won't be too good. Hard Drives Continue to grow, so storage isn't/won't be an issue. But in order for an uncompressed format to become mainstream, there has to be a new way of downloading it. I'm not sure if that means faster broadband or what, but people aren't going to want to spend hours downloading one album.

Internet connections are fast enough, i can easily download at 500k/sec off a fast server, thats about 17 minutes for a 500mb file, lossless albums are usully much smaller than that.

 

[tomjleeds]

Ten years? Definitely. Five years? Quite possibly - maybe not flash, but hard drives, sure.

The storage market is move fast!

 

[Sun Baked]

If they have a full size portable drive with a battery, I'm sure you can have a chance of hacking together a 500MB of storage -- or a boombox sized solution with 1TB.