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Hopefully soon enough we'll see what kind of rates Apple really can get on iPod mini sales. Hitachi is spending $200 million to increase the amount of microdrives made... with expectations of 2 million units/quarter by the end of 2004.
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If I'm not mistaken, the Hitachi drives are also in the muvo2. The supply for those is also severely constricted. They're a really hot commodity. But not as music players - it's because the high end digital cameras can use them as CF cards. Pretty funny if you ask me.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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I think that Apple probably has some sort of contractual agreement with them...a first dibs kind of thing. I could be wrong though. I think Apple (as well as everyone else) knew the mini would be huge, so they could afford to poor a lot of money into them, in the way of an agreement with the manufacture for the first few production runs of the drives.
Yeah, they can be used in digital cameras but I think they will be limited to the mini and a handful of other cameras for the time being. Come waste your time with me |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
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Oh, I agree! PlaysForShizzle is expected to outpace all iPod growth over the next ten years. I mean, with all those Windows users out there ready to adopt Microsoft music technology there's no way iPod wins this race. No way in hell. In fact, I will eat my hat if iPod outsells Zunomatic 1.0!
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