Attempting to deflate the recent hype, Jon Fortt of the San Jose Mercury News says that we shouldn’t count on seeing a “mini-iPod” introduced next week:
For Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to introduce such a product during his speech Tuesday at Macworld Conference & Expo, Apple would have to either unveil a breakthrough hard-drive technology, begin selling iPods based on the same flash-memory storage cards that many digital cameras use, or adopt a new small drive made by Cornice, a Longmont, Colo., start-up. Apple does not typically focus its engineering efforts on hard drives. Just last month, an Apple vice president told the Mercury News that the Cupertino company has no plans to make a music player based on flash storage cards. And a spokesman familiar with Cornice’s business said he is not aware of a relationship with Apple.
Guess we’ll know for certain in just a few days.
