250,000 songs on one iPod
Analyst Gene Munster predicts that
in 5 years Apple will be shipping 1 terabyte iPods for $500 each.
That means I'll be able to carry around a quarter-million songs in my
pocket. At the current iTunes rate of $.99 per song thats about a
quarter million dollars worth of music. Of course, we may be
filling this up with episodes of Lost or video pod casts, nevertheless,
it will be easy to carry a substantial fraction
of all available commercial music wherever you go. Now, how is shuffle play going
to work with that?
I think, as you say, we would have to be filling up those terabytes with something other than songs. Holo-sense movies, perhaps?
I'm also reminded of the comment an old IBMer once made, tongue more or less holstered in cheek:
"If God had meant us to do distributed processing, he would have put brains in our wrists..." ;^)
I mean, for every advance in storage capacity, there will be some corresponding advance in network bandwidth... why would I want to take on management of 1Tb of data?
Incidentally, as far as managing your mp3 files is concerned, have you tried Musicminer? It's very 'beta', but a very interesting way of navigating large collections of tracks.
http://musicminer.sourceforge.net/
Posted by Robin Wilton on November 28, 2005 at 12:28 PM EST #