On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:40 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
You know I honestly believe that at some point, Apple will be
phasing out all hard disk-based iPods and I can see a day when
physical hard drives become a thing of the past. I may be wrong, but
it makes sense and they'd last forever.
Whether its Flash or one of the other solid state technologies that
keep cropping up, I do think that the day of the hard disk is almost
at its end. For something like the speaking menus, an hard-disk based
iPod is impractical. The wear and tear on the hard drive to
constantly play the voice files, plus the battery and performance hit
the unit would take to constantly access the files on the drive, would
make the Classic a horrible choice for speaking menus. As soon as the
price of flash comes down enough that they can make Nano's with
storage space akin to that of the Classic, the Classic will be dropped
from the line up.
Josh de Lioncourt
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"Beauty was a savage garden, so why should it wound him that the most
despairing music is full of beauty?"
The Vampire Lestat--Anne Rice
