5 ≠ 12.

It's a 140% increase in recording time.
Why shouldn't they make snide remarks?

You've got a little conspiracy that hard drive makers are keeping the 5TB and 10TB drives away from you, it's just that they want to keep the current ones out on the market for the hell of making some money.
But, if you think about it, if they have a 5 and 10TB product, why not sell it at the 2TB price, and greatly reduce the cost of everything else, because it's last year's tech, right? That would increase the demand because the value is awesome AND the competitors do not have anything like it on the market.
Assuming they're not colluding together, which is illegal, so, na.
In the end, it doesn't make any sense.

And your SSD part..
Demand for SSDs is rising, and fast. As the price per GB drops, demand for SSDs increase. Of course the companies will want to make money. What else are they supposed to do?
As technology progresses, they will be able to make faster, cheaper, bigger (GB wise) products, yes. But if you're assuming they're putting some last year's tech out there, just to make your life harder and save some cash, then you're hella wrong.

@Agent .25i

He's giving suggestions as how to stop the completely stupid "FIRST" posts that plague every new article.
What the hell have you done?

Should be in your Utilities folder if you had it installed previously, I believe.

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MS8U5750GB8/

Yay for read link.

According to Apple, 50% are people new to iPods.

Apparently the carrier didn't want it or something. Or was it the government? I can't remember. Either one.

Who knows? Although I'm certain the no Wifi thing is something Apple was not happy to give over.

"Plus, use the Palm media sync feature to transfer your DRM-free iTunes music, videos, and photos to your Pre.6"

With the "6" at the end being:

"6 Compatible with iTunes v8.2. Compatibility with future versions not guaranteed. Within wireless coverage area only."

They did I guess :\ It's straight from their website.

And what about the Pre syncing to iTunes? Who benefits there? Consumers?
Consumers would benefit if Palm made their own syncing software that is half decent. That way, there's more competition. Which means consumers win.
What Palm did is stupid. They took a risk and now their customers are going to suffer.

Besides, all that Apple is doing is just making sure that an iPod is an iPod. They're allowed to do that, right?