“Greg Joswiak, vice president of hardware product marketing at Apple, shot down market rumors of 60-gigabyte models in the pipeline. ‘We have no plans in regard to announcing 60-gigabyte models,’ Joswiak said. “‘We are trying to create a much more compelling lineup with two models for 20 and 40 gigabytes at extremely compelling prices,'” Reuters reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “No plans in regard to announcing 60GB iPods” does not mean “no plans in regard to designing, building, and eventually shipping 60GB iPods.” After this non-denial denial, the question remains, will customers have the option for “15,000 songs in their pockets” by this year’s Christmas shopping season?
Related MacDailyNews article:
Apple smartly holds back 60GB iPod debut – July 19, 2004
Apple execs miffed over Toshiba’s 60GB iPod hard drive leak – June 04, 2004
Aryugaetu: Nice thoughts on multi-drive arrangements. This would be a fabulous.
After blissfully thinking how cool this would be, I then recalled the following:
http://www.ipodhacks.com/article.php?sid=55
Things are getting better with the Toshiba drives, but currently the MTTF on the 1.8″ drives is listed at 300,000 hours versus 750,000 hours in the above article. Easily swapped multi-disk arrays, would reduce the problems with earlier drive failure; however the current cost of drive replacement might make this system unfeasible.
It is certainly something for the not-too-distant future.
My colleague is betting on what he calls “iSnap” – a 5 megapixel digital camera with a built in hard drive.
tydalforce, this is pretty interesting. I’ve been waiting for a digital camera that can connect to a Firewire portable drive, like the iPod, as Compact Flash etc. have very limited storage ability. Why put out a 5 megapixel camera with a 64 MB card? One full size image would be 15 MB, so cameras are forced to compress like hell, which negates the whole advantage of more megapixels. Either a built-in hard drive or connecting to an external drive would make digital cameras worthwhile. Seems like external connectivity would be better, as these tiny hard drives are too expensive to incorporate in cameras.
there won’t be a 60 gig ipod in the near future.
what it will be is a 60gig Ipodpro (or Ipod max) with colour screen, auto-sync with iphoto (mac only), and a video out to play your imovies on the big screen or have the slide shows on your big screen.
that’s why there won’t be any 60gig Ipod