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May 27, 2005
AppleInsider: the iPod shuffle to get more muscle?
AppleInsider says, "Samsung Electronics and Toshiba are aggressively planning to ramp up their output of 8Gbit NAND flash chips in preparation for the new Apple-branded players, says the report by DigiTimes." They go on to state, "Rumors of a new iPod using 2GB flash memory have been steady over the past two months."
Doubting the veracity of 2GB and 4GB shuffle models is done easily enough. What would be the new price points? To me, a lot of the appeal of the shuffle model is its low price. What would Apple do with the mini model then? Seems like they shouldn't have two models with the same storage capacity. What I think we can glean from this report though, is that Apple does seem have some changes on the way.
I've read recently that flash memory technology is going to take off in the coming years and that we can expect to see dramatically increased storage capacities. So it's a given that Apple could up the shuffle's muscle. But where a huge amount of data storage is appropriate for the standard iPod, I don't really think it's keeping with the spirit of the shuffle. I'd be quite happy with a 1GB shuffle (mine is a 512MB model), as I think that's plenty of music to shuffle to. If you've got more music on it than that, I'd want to access it with a screen and with the standard iPod interface.
Posted on May 27, 2005 10:41 AM | Category: News
