Is the iPod Classic an Endangered Species?
27.07.09
Tried, I've got an iPhone—you have to when you’re the editor of an iPhone site—but when it comes to iPods, I'm more of an iPod Classic manner of guy—the type who still finds the drop to a max of 120GB from 160GB bankrupt to swallow. Too bad these devices, with their click wheels (at times preferable to multi-titivate, particularly for one-handed navigation) and oodles of hard disk storage, may be on the near extinction list.
There's been much conjecture of late that Apple may decide to put an end to the iPod Classic altogether, as the iPhone and iPod touch, with their considerably greater functionality (the capacity to run software bought through the App Store, in particular), continue to cannibalize Classic sales.
For eg, orders for 1.8-inch Samsung and Toshiba painful drives, the kind that go into an iPod Classic, are supposedly not what they should be if a new model were in the works. While 250GB, the measure of Samsung's latest miniature drives, would be nice bootee in capacity for the iPod
Source: PDAstreet