More on Flash Based iPods?

Anyways, this sounds like it is good news; I hope there is more speculation as to the capacity of this device. Anything less than 1GB might not suffice.

I would definitely pay $150 for flash-based, 1 GB iPod. What I can't decide on is the size. Something really small like a keychain/pack of gum/medallion device would be cool, but then you'd lose the great iPod interface and screen. It seems like the Mini form-factor is about as small as they can go there, and if that's the case I'm not sure the proposition is so attractive (might as well just pony up for a Mini in that case).

It'll probably be the same iPod mini with a 1-2GB flash drive.

It's curious that Apple's not rushing this out the door for Christmas, since there's going to be a lot of first-time purchasers in the market. This Christmas is going to be huge for market share as more and more people are falling on either Apple side or the everyone-else side of the player market.

Either Apple couldn't get the flash player to market or they're sufficeintly satisfied with iPod's traction in the market to go with what they've got.

It'll probably be the same iPod mini with a 1-2GB flash drive.

It would surprise me if it were 1 Gig. 2 Gig is out of the question. The price is simply too high.

If they come out with one, it might be as high as 512 Meg.

If Apple is to sew up the market for players, they need one using flash to cost closer to $99 than $149. 512 still holds about 8-9 albums of music.

If Apple could grab 75% of the flash market, they would hold about 85% of the whole market. If they could maintain that, they would get perhaps 85% of the downloads as well. That would cement their hold, if they can maintain their lead in player purchasing psychology.

But, in the rest of the world the iPods don't have that same lead. They have to grab it there as well. It's almost nowhere in China, for example, where cheaper players are growing sales. They have to get in there as well.

I definitely see a market for this. Everyone who follows the latest craze (tons of people) like the iPod are trying to get one. I bet a lot of those people stop when they see the price tag. Call it iPod something and make it cheaper and it will sell.

Anything with less than 1GB of capacity would end up tossed in the drawer and never used (to roughly paraphrase Steve Jobs). I wouldn't be in the market for one as the current 4GB mini is as low as I could ever go, but if Apple truly believes there is a large enough market for an even smaller capacity iPod, then they should go for it.

meh, i don't like flash players for my purposes, but if apple did it right (like they would), i can see alot of people springing for a flash based iPod with anywhere from 512mb-1gb of space.
on one news post on this subject, it said that apple had been confirmed to buy the flash CONTROLERS. this could mean either a) flash based ipod, or b) new flash controllers for reg. ipods, prolly more flash memory built in.
the new ipod photo has 17 mins of skip protection as opposed to the 25 of the regular ipods (and mini). what is up with that, does anyone know?

edit: another thought, apple just had a music/ipod event. it's getting close to christmas, don't you think they would have released the "flash ipod" there along with the ipod photo/u2 ipod?
strange, i doubt they are making a flash ipod anytime this year.

It would surprise me if it were 1 Gig. 2 Gig is out of the question. The price is simply too high.

If they come out with one, it might be as high as 512 Meg.

I agree with you that a Flash-based iPod would have no more than 512 MB of Flash for $149 at this time.

But the real question... Will it be compatible with the new announced iPod Socks?