Tuesday, December 30, 2008

iPod Touch and iPhone with Hard Drives

Dear Cupertino,

I was thinking about this one with a few friends. How about giving us an iPod Touch, or even better an iPhone with a hard drive. It could use a flash drive only for the operating system and apps so it doesn't seem slow.  Your music, movies, and photos would all be stored onto the hard drive. Giving us a wonderful touchscreen device with the space of an iPod Classic.

Here's another thought. How about giving us the option of interchangeable SD card slot for the OS and apps. Now that my friends would be GOLD. 

Thanks and love always,

Ryan

1 comment:

Seth said...

Would be a step backwards. Apple is pushing flash storage HARD and while it would be nice to snag some extra gigs from a HDD for the same price as flash, it isn't worth the bulk and reduced data storage integrity.

While I was annoyed when Apple announced they were going with flash for the iPhone, in hindsight, I think it was a great decision. They're pulling the market forward and helping to drive down the prices of flash storage. It will take us a couple years till we're at the point where we aren't complaining about the storage limitations of flash, but I view it as a necessary evil to get to that point.