Color iPod minis by October?
Oh, you know we just hang on every analyst's word, really. So we'll pass along these predictions from Shaw Wu, based on supposed deals between Apple and PortalPlayer (who currently supplies the chips for Apple's hard drive-based players, but stand to derive high revenues from new flash-based chip designs in Q3), that he expects a 2GB iPod mini with flash-based storage instead of an HDD by as early as the end of this year. He also thinks we should be on the lookout for color iPod minis and higher-capacity flash-based iPods by about October of this year — and that the new rumoured video iPods may also not ship til then. This is based on data from PortalPlayer as well as the simple observation that Apple unveiled its then new iPod photo around the same time last year, and that they'll want to cash in on the same holiday season buzz they did then. Yes, um, logical. If anyone wants to offer us some cash, we'd gladly "predict" these things, too. (Warning: pic — not real!)
