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Originally Posted by Messiahtosh
I think that if the phone components were taken out, the price of manufacturing the device would drop significantly. You're right: remove the phone/internet stuff, the camera, and the mic and you might be able to get the price to $599.
People would pay $599 for an iPod with that UI. And actually, I don't think it would need a software scroll wheel...the new scrolling seems much more natural. It's basically the same as what we do now with our trackpads or a mouse with iTunes menus.
And yeah, get that thing out there for $599 and in a year it could drop to $399...and so on.
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Way high. I see 80 and 100 GB versions of this for $349 and $449, sans all the phone bits.
The 30 GB (40?) stays at $249 to reel in the cheapskates, with no changes to the current model.
I also see 10 and 20 GB iPhones before christmas, perhaps even before launch.
(Such an iPhone capacity increase would probably come hand in hand with nano bumps, I see 5 GB, 10 GB and 20 GB nanos as well.)