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July 03, 2008
Massive flash batch starts Ipod refresh rumours
Digitimes is reporting that the Korean electronics giant Samsung has taken an Apple order for 50 million 8Gb chips, mainly for use in the forthcoming, and soon to be annoyingly ubiquitous iphone.
But Apple's forecasts are predicting sales of between 10 and 11 million units. And even if everything went completely bananas, St Steve and all his little helpers might pump out between 15 and 20 million. So where are all the rest of those 8Gb chips going?
Well... here's an outrageous prediction based on nothing but guess-work and pure conjecture:
Despite the fact that Apple normally refreshes the ipod range in the lucrative back-to-school period in September, we reckon that massive sales of the iphone (which, of course, has its own ipod functionality) will impact on sales of the stand-alone players. So by the end of July, we think we'll see a refresh of the ipod Touch and, here's the kicker, a bigger new ipod shuffle which will bring the minimum capacity of the whole range to 8Gb.
Posted by ipodworld at July 3, 2008 09:16 AM