Cannibalization at Apple Inc.

The Apple world is atwitter. The iphone looks pretty cool actually. The way I see it, its the end of the standalone ipod era.

Currently the disk sizes are limited to 4GB and 8GB. Harder sizes would probably cannibalize the video ipods now where Apple is still making a lot of money. But it shouldnt be long before the disk sizes go bigger on the iphones ... along with the inevtiable - a regular price drop. Think back to the original digital cameras in 2000, the 1MP resolution cameras used to cost upwards of 500$! So in 2-3 years we should be seeing around 30GB or more iphones for 250$! Poor ipods!

By the by, note that flash drives are outpacing Moore's law by doubling every year! And becoming stronger as well, you can drive VW Beetles over them without data loss!

Apple, of course, knows about the impeding death of the big brother - the IPOD. It is time that they carved out a new niche market as well with the likes of Microsoft, Sandisk, iRiver etc crowding it in the personal digital music space. Of course IPODs have been marketed extremely well and they are way ahead in market share but one can never be too complacent in the hi-tec industry. To think that xerox was synonymous with photocopying when it invented it!

Talking of Sandisk, also check out this smear campaign on ipods.

In this era, picking up the market trends quickly is surely the way to mediocrity, the leaders virtually create the market where none exists. Apple surely has its act together thesedays.

The Apple TV device is out too, more on that later.