http://www.npdgroupblog.com/2009/08/die-hard/ The official blog of The NPD Group Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.npdgroupblog.com/2009/08/die-hard/#comment-298 iPods For Less » Npd Group Blog » Die Hard Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:50:07 +0000 http://www.npdgroupblog.com/?p=720#comment-298 [...] Npd Group Blog » Die Hard Since 2005, Apple has held an event each September that has provided an update on the iPod ecosystem. Most of the rumors around the possibilities of such an event this year have been focused on an Apple tablet device. As in the MP3 player market, flash is encroaching from both the low-end (such as inexpensive iPod shuffle music players and Flip mino camcorders) and high-end (such as premium iPod touch media players and Canon Visia camcorders) and consumers are voting Categories: iPod Comments are closed. Sony And Best Buy Join Forces For Ipod Speaker Systems – Apple RSS feed [...] [...] Npd Group Blog » Die Hard Since 2005, Apple has held an event each September that has provided an update on the iPod ecosystem. Most of the rumors around the possibilities of such an event this year have been focused on an Apple tablet device. As in the MP3 player market, flash is encroaching from both the low-end (such as inexpensive iPod shuffle music players and Flip mino camcorders) and high-end (such as premium iPod touch media players and Canon Visia camcorders) and consumers are voting Categories: iPod Comments are closed. Sony And Best Buy Join Forces For Ipod Speaker Systems – Apple RSS feed [...]

]]> http://www.npdgroupblog.com/2009/08/die-hard/#comment-295 Verbatim wants to have a word with your hard drive | Out of the Box Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:32:08 +0000 http://www.npdgroupblog.com/?p=720#comment-295 [...] Still, when i saw it, I knew the InSight wasn’t the first  external hard drive with an LCD that stays on even when the device isn’t receiving power. SmartDisk offered the FireLite XPress hard drive with a 3” display that could display free space as well as much more text several years ago (I remember seeing them at CompUSA). The SmartDisk drive certainly didn’t look as good as the InSight, but the company produced some of the smallest external hard drives in its day, including the bantam FireFly that used the same kind of 1.8” hard drive used in iPods even today (though maybe not for long). [...] [...] Still, when i saw it, I knew the InSight wasn’t the first  external hard drive with an LCD that stays on even when the device isn’t receiving power. SmartDisk offered the FireLite XPress hard drive with a 3” display that could display free space as well as much more text several years ago (I remember seeing them at CompUSA). The SmartDisk drive certainly didn’t look as good as the InSight, but the company produced some of the smallest external hard drives in its day, including the bantam FireFly that used the same kind of 1.8” hard drive used in iPods even today (though maybe not for long). [...]

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