[antiRepublicrat]

But what if there was a competitive system with the Nano, for instance, sixty bucks cheaper?

Funny you mention the nano, because that one in particular won't happen. Samsung is the world's largest producer of NAND memory (the kind used in flash-based players). Apple bought up 40% of Samsung's NAND memory production for the next five years at a steep discount (still $100 million a year), and also made big, long-term deals with Hynix, Toshiba and others.

So matching the nano's price will be hard since it'll cost almost anyone else a lot more for the memory that goes into the player.

[durasell]

Probable they didn't want to get into one of those coltran messes like Sony with video games...but still.


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