One more thing: I made this thread before there was talk of Apple getting 2GB and 4GB flash drives. The press seems to be assuming that those drives are going to go into an upgraded iPod shuffle, but I don't think so - quadrupling the capacity of the iPs after a mere six months on the market does not seem likely. Plus, 1,000 songs? That's a lot of songs to manage without a screen (I do think that the iPod shuffle will eventually gain a small, three-digit display above its controls, but that's a discussion for another day, as again, I don't see iPod shuffle updates happening this summer/fall.) So what could the flash drives be for? It's entirely possible that the press could be totally wrong on this - they predicted that we'd see the updated iPs at WWDC, for chrissakes - but they were right about the Intel switch...
2GB and 4GB drives seem to be about right for the long-rumored iPod phone, don't they? That'd be another way of bridging the gap between the iPod and iPod video...
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