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iPod Flash Early 2005?

Friday November 12, 2004 1:43 pm PST by mudbug
According to sources close to AppleInsider, the previously rumored (thread, thread, thread) flash memory-based iPod variant should go into production in December, and is expected to make a debut in early 2005. A production stockpile of 2 million units is expected to be produced prior to worldwide distribution in an effort to keep pace with demand. Interface and controls should be similar to the current click-wheel iPod and iPod Mini, and is expected to be in a storage capacity range of 256 Megabytes to 1 Gigabyte. Pricing is now expected below $200.

Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Mini at last year's MacWorld San Francisco to overwhelming success. It could be expected that the new iPod Flash could debut worldwide at the January MWSF 2005 show.
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encrypt3d
95 months ago
Ill stick with my 20GB one. What can you do with only 1GB?
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anubis
95 months ago
too little storage for me. i think i'll stick with my mini.
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theROZ
95 months ago
I think a ipod flash player is a dumb idea....
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Bear
95 months ago
Again with a Flash based iPod rumor?

Actually, except for making a slot for a flash card, it could be basically the same guts as the iPod mini. So it isn't that much of a design change.
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mccoma
95 months ago
wish they had made Christmas.

oh, well I guess they will have to catch all the "I got money" for Christmas crowd
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Lord Blackadder
95 months ago
I might get one. I tend to destroy my MP3 players (mountain biking), so hard drive based ones are no good for me, besides the $$$. Anyway I'm only riding for 1-4 hours, so I don't need all the space. Good deal Apple, a logical step anyway.
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Veldek
95 months ago
I still can't believe it. At the introduction of the iPod Photo, Steve Jobs said that the huge market share of the iPod includes "all those flash players that people received as presents and never use".
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Lord Blackadder
95 months ago

Ill stick with my 20GB one. What can you do with only 1GB?


The same thing you do with a 20GB iPod, for a shorter length of time. :D
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oingoboingo
95 months ago
Interesting that Steve Jobs has publically derided small capacity flash-RAM MP3 players on a number of occasions, and now is planning to offer one of his own. The Jobs quote that keeps coming to mind is "the flash player that someone gave you as a gift that is now sitting in a drawer somewhere unused". A 1GB flash player might be useful, but I can't see how a 256MB flash player, with a capacity of only a handful of albums, is going to be anything groundbreaking.

Oh well...I suppose we all should know better by now. There were plenty of people who believed the original iPod was a stupid idea, and of course the amount of negative feedback that the iPod mini generated upon its launch looks ridiculous in hindsight, given the success of the product. Maybe we should just shut up and wait and see what happens with the iPod Flash :)
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oingoboingo
95 months ago

Again with a Flash based iPod rumor?

Actually, except for making a slot for a flash card, it could be basically the same guts as the iPod mini. So it isn't that much of a design change.


For a flash-RAM only player, somethign the size of the iPod mini would be way too big. Flash-based MP3 players are tiny these days...not much bigger than inline remotes on headphone cords, or the form-factor of USB memory keys. An iPod mini-sized flash player would look like a dinosaur.
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