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HDD MP3 Players: Round 1

Started by Devindra Hardawar · 10 months ago

I’m probably going to be writing several posts about the progress of the hard-drive mp3 market. The interesting thing right now is this move towards the smaller 5/6GB players for roughly the same price we were paying for 20-40 GB players last year. It started with the Ipod mini, an ... Continue reading »

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  • Iceman

    4 years ago

    on a related, but different subject, it seems like products for flash drives are coming up faster than products for mini-disks... but this should reverse, right?

    i can't wait for the cheap and decent phone / organizer / mp3 player / camera thingie comes out. so far, O2 XDA2s and Treo 650 are all i have looked at
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  • Tenken

    4 years ago

    Well the strictly flash-based players seem to only be serving a small market right now. The inexpensive ones (~$100) allow people to jump into the portable audio game easily, this is the main draw of the iPod Shuffle. On a tangent of my own, I find it amazing how Apple was able to market the Shuffle. What other company could accomplish that?! "Life is random" is just the best excuse for the lack of a display, and people eat it up! As you can tell, I'm not an Apple fan ;)

    The big thing in portable players right now are the microdrive based ones. I find it amazing that the 4GB iPod mini sold so well at $250 when the 20GB Ipod was $300. This trend towards portability is interesting in its own right. Personally, I'd rather have a hard drive player that held alot, instead of sacrificing space for portability. On that rare occasion that I exercise outside, I find the flash-based players to be infinitely more useful than a microdrive one. I would rather not have to worry about the drive heads crashing and whatnot.

    I think I may discuss this further in my second article, still not sure what to cover there...
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