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Beautifully put.
My only expectation/hope is a price drop- no matter how small- for the Touch. That's all I'd want.
Does anyone here understand marketing? Consumer demand, manufacturing processes, how to hype products, when not to and to release things?
There is, no way at all there will be an ipod nano touch if the 4g pictures are real (and sadly, after the orange one, I believe they are real) period.
The classic will not come in flash memory only at 30 / 60gb either, it will remain disk based, until they can replace them with flash in about 12 - 24 months.
The ipod touch is getting a shape refresh we know that, maybe some new features, possibly more space but the classics will just get a shape or size change, they will not cancel them as there is still many users out there who like to have over 100gb with them.
Flash ram is still more expensive than even those ultra tiny hard disks in the ipods.
FOOLISH? What's foolish? Going all flash makes perfect sense. Right now it would be too expensive to do, i don't see it happening for a few years but its def not foolish. Your foolish for thinking they'll NEVER go to flash!
Flash saves battery life, makes the mp3 player smaller and thinner, and has a longer life span than HD.
Quit posting if you dont know what your talking about....
OMG!! I'll soooo buy one of those! How much will it be? Will it be for immediate release or will we have to wait a few weeks? Give us more detail please!
FOOLISH. Please take your own advice. They will NEVER go all flash. There will always be HDs that eclipse the amount of flash storage for the same price.
Thanks, that was worth a good laugh.
Seriously, look at how much attention was focused on RUMORS of this event taking place. You doomsday-rant people are stretching things here.
Back to that word.... FOOLISH
FLASH is totally in the cards for all apples products. Example: Macbook air.. Apples first implementation in a computer. Thats just the start. The only reason they use the HD in the classic is because flash (at this point in time) is too expensive to have an adequate amount of space on it. Once the prices drop over the years you bet your ass there putting flash in those ipods. It would be silly not too! Everyones turning to flash. Even the harddrive makers are concentrating on flash drives because theres more of a demand for it. Because of the reasons ive listed before....
WHO'S WITH ME ON THIS ?
I think someday we'll get to the point where flash is cheap enough that its benefits will outweigh the lesser cost of HDDs.
Just looked up pricing for 64gb of flash ram, if you want a 64gb ipod touch, it's going to be at least 399$ US, since apple will have to buy them at around 220$ US (very rough guess) in bulk
(I don't know how much the touch costs in the US now?)
(I don't know how much the touch costs in the US now?)
OMG!! I'll soooo buy one of those! How much will it be? Will it be for immediate release or will we have to wait a few weeks? Give us more detail please!
$49 for a 10-pack, available immediately.
No sale. They're used to send to people with faulty iPods of the same model.
Daveman. I'm with you. For portable audio players I haven't owned a HDD-based one for years. Instead I use one with flash and an SDHC-slot for even more flash.
My audio recorders records to either CF alone, or to both CF and HDD (the HDD is only used as an "extra" and will be swapped for a 2.5" SSD in due time).
Not only for me, but for the entire industry: Mechanical disk storage is on the way out. Fast.
Hopefully they are going to fix the apps installs so that they don't keep crashing the iPhone.
I am on my second iPhone 3G and my fourth complete rebuild due to issues / hangs following apps installs. Despite the fact Apple put supposed safeguards o n the apps there does seem to be the potential for multiple apps to cause system failures. Perhaps Apple should concentrate on creating complete isolated containers for these apps before they release them.
So far I think the iPhone is a great device but the apps store experience has not been great.
I am on my second iPhone 3G and my fourth complete rebuild due to issues / hangs following apps installs. Despite the fact Apple put supposed safeguards o n the apps there does seem to be the potential for multiple apps to cause system failures. Perhaps Apple should concentrate on creating complete isolated containers for these apps before they release them.
So far I think the iPhone is a great device but the apps store experience has not been great.
Apple will be all flash players within 3 years, flash ram will drop in price over the next 3 years, I believe Seagate has already purchased a flash company to stay competitive.
No there won't - it's the law of diminishing returns.
hard disks break more often due to moving parts, they are less shock resistant, use more power.
I am a huge fan of hard disks but sooner or later technology will focus on flash more and more and more till it becomes the cheaper option.
Just like CRT monitors to LCD
LCD was more expensive, then same, now less.
Nothing wrong with punch cards ..... - you could at least have a reliable JCL deck to boot the mainframe from and the punched squares were great as confetti or for sticking in the air vents of cars
Flash is also increasing capacity at a faster rate than traditional hard drives. It will eventually eclipse HD-based storage in most applications (not just iPods). Flash isif only currently theoreticallyfaster, cheaper, more durable, thinner, lighter, and more efficient. As far as mass storage goes we'll probably see a drop in capacity for a short time during the mass-transition to flashi.e. max HD capacity would be, say, 1 TB and max flash would be 512 GB, but producers would still drop the HD and push flash.
YEAH!
And don't forget about those inevitable touch screen displays and rollout keyboards that are bound in the laptops once prices come down years from now.
And I don't know why anyone would think 1TB of HDD space is too much since 4k HD is going to be standard in about 3 or 4 or 5 or so years. Then the holographic displays will be out soon after that.
p.s. it seems that everyone is forgetting that the SSD in the MBA sucks up MORE power than the HDD with minimal speed increase. Due to the fact that SSD don't idle down.
so eventually when there are 10TB HDs for the price of 5TB flash drives, the flash drives wouldn't be the right choice? eventually adding capacity to the drives won't be so much of a priority. remember you're talking about iPods that only need to hold music, video, applications etc...
EDIT: everyone's already agreed really, haven't they :/ oops