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- guyro, on 07/04/2008, -8/+39Creating an artificial shortage for the competitors? That's pretty sleazy...
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -3/+25Jobs just needed some drives to keep all his porn on.
- Epistaxis, on 07/04/2008, -8/+29No, it's only sleazy when Microsoft does it. When Apple does it, it's clever.
- kidjay, on 07/04/2008, -3/+20are you high? find me a 1.8" hard drive that's bigger than 250 gigs. hell, find me one of those.
yeah they could make a 1tb ipod. it'd be the size of a brick, totally useless to 99.99^n% of the population, completely cost-ineffective to produce and would have a battery life of about 25 minutes.
also find me any other competitor stupid enough to craft this device. - LeeSoong, on 07/04/2008, -2/+18Let's give the real credit to the original article in digitimes:
http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20080702PD209 ...
Oh, and such a bone headed move will backfire against Samsung,
Samsung's [former] customers will go to the competition, and the increased sales to the competition will drive forward their innovation, while Samsung stagnates working overtime to churn out parts for Apple.
Expect lower cost 16 GB and 32 GB flash chips from the competition very, very soon... - wonderchemist, on 07/04/2008, -6/+19It's only sleazy if Apple can't use all 50 million chips.
- m3th0dm4n, on 07/04/2008, -1/+14Yes let's hope Apple's competitors all dissolve their products so Apple can cut quality and increase costs at will with no repercussions.
/facepalm - Kakemonstere, on 07/04/2008, -0/+9Yeh, I was thinking just that.
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -2/+11GB != Gb
- LeeSoong, on 07/04/2008, -19/+28Bah.
Apple is slow and can't keep up with the competition.
The 3G iPhone should come in 32 GB and 64 GB models,
and the iPod Touch 64/128 - and classic iPod should be rockin' at 1 TB by now.
What is the hold up ? - mrjeffery, on 07/04/2008, -1/+10According to Engadget its for 50 million 8 Gb NAND chips. Note the "Gb" (Gigabit) not "GB" (Gigabyte).
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/02/apple-eat ...
"The order is said to be for 50-million 8Gb-equivalent NAND chips mainly for use in Apple's iPhone."
"We've given the Gigabits vs. Gigabytes a bit more thought. If it's 50 million 8Gbit chips as stated, they would divide evenly across about 2.1 million 8GB iPhone 3Gs plus another 2.1 million 16GB models." - MarkusX, on 07/04/2008, -10/+17That's what I call brute-force method among manufacturers and sales people.
Buy up all the memory, make it more expensive for everybody else. Cool.
Sometimes Apple really has an extra ace up their sleeve. - DomZy, on 07/04/2008, -1/+8Ipod's play videos now
- cfm24, on 07/04/2008, -10/+17Cool? No.
Sleazy? No
Naughty? Oh yes. - SSUK, on 07/04/2008, -0/+6A terabyte is 1024 Gigabytes... Just incase you were under some misconception of how large a terabyte is.
- Zippo, on 07/04/2008, -0/+532 and 64GB flash memory is ***** expensive...
In a year it will be more affordable but right now it's expensive. - angrykeyboarder, on 07/04/2008, -1/+6Microsoft isn't the only tech Monopoly around..
- Appleologist, on 07/04/2008, -1/+5Since when does spending money on product = anti-competitive?
- mstrebe, on 07/04/2008, -1/+5Did you read the article? Apple bought NAND production from all of Samsung's competitors as well, including Hynix, Toshiba, and Intel. They're buying about half of the total global supply.
There is no way that these chips are all for iPhones. They must be planning a move to solid-state drives for their entire laptop line. - LilBoyLuver, on 07/04/2008, -2/+6This whole thread is stupid.
They are Gb not GB - Barackalypse, on 07/04/2008, -4/+7I doubt they'll be creating artificial shortages for all their competitors, seeing as Samsung both makes the NAND and makes competing MP3 players and smart phones. Check out Samsung's M800 touchscreen smart phone, even if it doesn't turn out to be as good as the iPhone, I'll take Sprint over AT&T as a carrier any day. Have a look at it: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tah0i-luqBg
- Kelmon, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3That's the dumbest comment I think I've read on Digg, and that's saying something. In what possible way is buying parts "anti-competitive"? Are you seriously suggesting that any company buying parts should check with their supplier to ensure that everyone else has enough? Do you know what "anti-competitive" actually means?
In case these questions have confused you (probably not a difficult task), the answer to your question is "no". - JKAL, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Before you panic!
This is sensationalism at it's best,
in actual fact an order of 50million units in the semiconducting (memory) market is a very normal if not small order. Also NAND memory is so commonly made that most Japanese companies have recently stopped manufacturing as places like China, Korea and Taiwan are making enough to satisfy demand. - inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+3Thanks, couldn't find it and got tired of looking.
- angrykeyboarder, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2And we may never know if this was the case or not.
- JKAL, on 07/05/2008, -0/+2This is sensationalism at it's best,
in actual fact an order of 50million units in the semiconducting (memory) market is a very normal if not small order. Also NAND memory is so commonly made that most Japanese companies have recently stop manufacturing as places like China, Korea and Taiwan are making enough to satisfy demand. - zeroduck, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2It's not like more than one can be put in a device.
- mstrebe, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2Apple has always, throughout it's history, secured large orders of flash, RAM, hard disks, and optical drives in advance. They do it to secure a fixed price, much like taking a hedge on a commodity, and so that they can have stable platform prices throughout the life of a product. They also do it so that the supplier has the capital up-front to drive the price down so that they ultimately have higher margin. It's just old fashioned buying in bulk.
This isn't news, and it's not an indication of Apple doing anything particularly clever or monopolistic. It's the natural result of having a lot of cash on hand. - Totz83, on 07/04/2008, -1/+2Great, now all they need is a strand of hair and some toenail clippings and they'll have themselves a... ehh... I dunno where Im goin with this.
- digiguy, on 07/04/2008, -1/+2Make more
- PabloMac, on 07/04/2008, -3/+4≠
- macslut, on 07/04/2008, -1/+2Look, I know it's supposed to be Gb and not GB, but still, that's waaaaay more pr0n than I could consume...in a weekend.
Someone at Apple has serious issues. - megadan76, on 07/04/2008, -7/+8Who has 1 TB of music? Sure, you might have a terabyte or two on all your hard drives, but you'd never be able to listen to it all. A TB drive in an ipod is a total waste of money.
- justice7, on 07/04/2008, -2/+3Don't forget, these chips can be paired; 4x8Gb NAND chips = 32Gb
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -0/+1Apple counts in multiples of a 1000 not 1024.
1gig = 1000 megs
so 1 tera will be 1000 gig - inobla, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1That's often how they're used. All of the signals are paralleled with exception to individual Chip Select lines.
- slundal, on 07/04/2008, -2/+3I'm with you man!
- AnotherJewboy, on 07/06/2008, -0/+1Samsung must be the winner here,
Samsung supplies the memory and CPU for the iphone and its also coming out with the Instinct, in direct competition with the iphone. - LeeSoong, on 07/07/2008, -0/+1Almost every product update has come with 2 things:
faster processors, and
more storage.
It is no longer really an update - just an existing market expectation. Fail to meet that silent expectation, and it is perceived as a weakness - a falling behind the competition. - rjett, on 07/05/2008, -2/+3"640K should be enough for anyone"
- datek2517, on 07/04/2008, -4/+4Bingo.
- jo21, on 07/04/2008, -5/+5true n96 is comming with 16gb + card slot.
they are 12gb cards out now...
do the maths. - skeen07, on 07/04/2008, -9/+9No it isn't - it's good business. I would do the same.
- Lockhart1, on 04/09/2009, -0/+0No, that's business. Go back to the fatherland commie.
- glui2001, on 07/04/2008, -3/+3The price point
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