Apple’s New iPod Nano, Classic and Touch Doomed? Will Phones Take Over?

The new iPods may be tickling us in all the right places at the moment, but many market analysts are claiming that Apple’s iPod days are numbered, with the future of music being in mobile phones.

This makes a lot of sense, seeing as flash memory is becoming cheaper by the day, with companies like Sony Ericsson and Nokia cramming gigabytes of storage for all the European, music hungry consumers.

In a very strongly biased worded report, Feinburg sees the new iPod Nano, Classic and Touch doomed to being placed besides our Rubik’s cube and Lava Lamps in our basements.

“Within the next few years, demand for stand-alone portable music players will peak and begin to slowly fade into the background; within ten years, these devices will be relegated to museum shelves next to the vinyl LP and the 8-track player.”

Being a fan of the whole iPod range and anything Apple for that matter, I do hope that Feinburg is wrong. However, when Apple themselves admit that the future is phone, thus bringing us the iPhone, it does worry me quite a lot.

“Even Apple is aware of this inevitability, thus one reason for rolling out the iPhone. Yes, Apple will continue to introduce slight modifications and enhancements of the core iPod platform, but the iPhone represents the future of the iPod - just one feature on a mobile phone.”

At the end of the day, about a billion phones are being sold every year, so who knows what the forthcoming year could bring us. Let’s just hope Apple keep their successful line of music players, as I cannot imagine a world without beautiful iPods.

Do you use your iPod or your mobile phone to listen to your music?

What do you think of the new iPod range being taken over by the phone market?

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