Leonard Nimrod: This month iAudio and Creative has announced their 16GB flash DAPs priced at $250, and they are on sale as we speak. Next year they will be doubling that to 32GB for the same price. Flash capacity has been doubled every year for devices like the iPod Nano. I live in reality land while you seem to have been living in a Cave.
1.8 inch HDDs in the iPods are very unreliable. My iPod photo died after 6 month and the replacement I got died after 1 year and 2 month. HDD failure is the most common death cause for the big iPod, resulting in a lot of warranty claims for Apple.
Therefor I bet that Apple are will be happy to switch to Flash for the big iPod as soon as the prices for the high capacity memory chips will go down to a reasonable level, which is at the second half of next year.
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Leonard Nimrod:
This month iAudio and Creative has announced their 16GB flash DAPs priced at $250, and they are on sale as we speak. Next year they will be doubling that to 32GB for the same price. Flash capacity has been doubled every year for devices like the iPod Nano. I live in reality land while you seem to have been living in a Cave.
1.8 inch HDDs in the iPods are very unreliable. My iPod photo died after 6 month and the replacement I got died after 1 year and 2 month. HDD failure is the most common death cause for the big iPod, resulting in a lot of warranty claims for Apple.
Therefor I bet that Apple are will be happy to switch to Flash for the big iPod as soon as the prices for the high capacity memory chips will go down to a reasonable level, which is at the second half of next year.