“According to our source (who asked to remain anonymous), Apple has been working on a smaller, mass-market iPhone for a long time,” Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac. “But to do that, Apple had to figure out a way to strip away some of the components to reduce both its size and cost.”
“Apple decided to lose some of the memory, which is by far the most expensive component of the iPhone (up to one-quarter of the device’s cost, according to iSuppli estimates),” Kahney reports. “By ‘some’ of the memory, we mean ALL of the memory. The iPhone nano will have no memory for onboard storage of media, our source says. It will have only enough memory to buffer media streamed from the cloud. ‘I’m talking strictly storage memory here,’ said our source.”
Kahney reports, “The iPhone nano will pull ALL it’s content from MobileMe. When users buy a movie or TV show on iTunes, it’s available to stream to their iPhone or iPad. The service is based on technology from LaLa.com…”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]