New iPod Could Hold Up To 100,000 Songs
Advances in Thin Film Research To Make This Possible
According to research done by the University of Manitoba, new advances in thin film research could theoretically make a hard drive capable of about 155 gigabytes (GB) per square centimeter, far beyond the capacity of the iPod in your pocket today. According to Johan van Lierop, “The largest current disk capacity on MP3 players is about 80 GB, representing around 20,000 songs worth of storage. Our work may help companies like Fujitsu develop components for an iPod that could hold 125,000 songs or around 500 GB of data.” Not that many of us have that many song titles, but advances like this would make the iPod as much of a portable storage device as a multimedia player.
Besides the fact that not many would need that much storage capacity on an iPod, imagine what that would cost. With an 80 gig iPod going for for $349, a 155 GB iPod would probably retail for at least $699. That’s just crazy!
I mean seriously… When are you going to go out and be like “Crap, I only have 5,000 songs on my iPod, I need all 80,000 in my collection”?
That isn’t crazy. people are dumb they will buy any the product. More and more people are getting richer and richer. Most people like buy the ipod already so why wouldn’t they buy this one.