Wednesday, February 1, 2006
The Shuffle may not be long for this world. The tiny MP3 player, a favorite of gym-goers, is cheap at $129, but lacks a screen. It may soon be replaced by a 1-gigabyte version of the iPod Nano, according to UBS analyst Ben Reitzes. Currently, the smallest Nano has 2 gigabytes of storage, enough for about 500 songs, and costs $199. Adding a screen to the Shuffle, which Reitzes previously estimated only costs $8 more to manufacture, would make Apple more competitive on the low end of the MP3 player market. Reitzes also sees slow sales of Intel-based Macs for the first three months of this year. The analyst cut UBS's 2006 fiscal-year estimates for Mac unit sales by about 10 percent to 4.7 million.
By: DocMemory
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