Toshiba officially announces those 60GB hard drives
By Peter Rojas 
posted Aug 4th 2004 8:30AM
posted Aug 4th 2004 8:30AM
Toshiba officially announced that they're getting ready to mass-produce a 60GB version of their tiny 1.8-inch hard drive, which is the same one used in the iPod and other MP3 players. This would be big news, except that Toshiba did a pretty good job of pissing off Apple back in June when some product manager accidentally let slip that these were on the way (and that Apple had ordered a whole bunch of them). So yeah, there's a 60GB iPod on the way for sure, just probably not until right around the end of year at the earliest, and if we had to guess, we'd say Steve Jobs will probably introduce it at Macworld next January.
Apple needs to take a back seat here. Toshiba has every right to announce products they are developing and releasing. If they dont, it will interfere with THE EXCITEMENT of their companys innovation. Other storage manufacturers are whaleing away developing tech and TALKING about it. Apple isnt Toshis only customer, and they sholdnt be acting like they own the world either. Its a friggin iPod, not a defense satelite. Donkys.
I think you're confused. Apple wasn't angry that Toshiba announced their new 60GB mini HD...they were angry that they announced their new 60GB mini HD and that they leaked that Apple had ordered like 40,000 of them.
guess this confirms the bluetooth iPod rumor -- this is the drive that will also inc. bluetooth features
Follow the links all the way back - to the "pissed off" entry, and then to the Think Secret article, and then to the original IDG news story, and you'll see that Think Secret invented details and Engadget amplified them. Toshiba deliberately announced the drive and said only that Apple had ordered some units. Think Secret invented the bit about Apple committing to use the drives in a product, something the original story never said. Engadget then turned that into Apple placing a "big order" for 60GB drives, something neither Think Secret nor the original story said.
For more deconstruction, see MWJ 2004.07.31. Peter is so committed to iPod ideas that Apple's customers show no excitement for, like watching videos on a 2-inch screen or another $500 iPod with even more space when the 40GB iPods aren't the best-selling models, that he's apparently unable to let go of a single pie-in-the-sky iPod rumor - at least if it draws traffic. There's no solid evidence of a 60GB iPod other than that this drive makes one possible at some cost and at some future date when the drives ship in quantity. That's hardly news or a "60GB iPod for sure."