Apple Moving To All Flash Based iPods?

Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora, who loves to wax poetic on Apple, claims the concern will offer only Flash memory iPod’s by the end of the year. The new high-capacity Flash players would also get a major design makeover with a new display in the wide-screen format. “We believe that the video iPod transition from 1.8-inch hard disk drives to NAND flash memory may occur as soon as late 2007,” Tortora wrote....

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Steve Jobs Asks The Majors “Can We All Just MP3?”

Apple, Inc.’s, Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs has written an open letter to the public calling on the major music labels to license their music free of Digital Rights Managment (DRM) to Apple and others, to create a “truly interoperable music marketplace.” It is the record labels who insist on making Apple’s iTunes store and other online stores resell their music bogged-down with DRM – and yet 90 per...

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