Apple to begin manufacturing flash-based iPods

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple will begin manufacturing a flash-based iPod as early as December of 2004 and predicts the new music player to begin shipping in late January or February of 2005. Although, more details should be available after January's Macword trade show in SF.

Sources are saying that the MP3 player will be between 256MB and 1GB and will sell for less than $200US. Hopefully the new devices will be smaller than the existing iPod mini (4GB, $249US) which was announced at last year's Macword and has continued to sell throughout the year.

Currently Apple holds a 65% market-share for MP3 players (which includes all flash-based and hard drive-based models) and an impressive 92% market share of hard drive-based MP3 players.

Apple to begin manufacturing flash-based iPod next month [via AppleInsider]

Posted by peter on November 12, 2004 at 02:35 PM
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aaaah.... flash (as in ram)... before r(ing)tfa, i was wondering why Flash Devices hadn't picked it up yet... you got me ;)

Posted by: eokyere at November 12, 2004 03:10 PM

Yeah, sorry... flash ram, not Macromedia Flash based (unfortunately). Twas not my intention to mislead or deceive (but hey, it got clicks! wheee!).

Posted by: peter at November 12, 2004 03:13 PM