Cult of Mac is further reporting on the small iPhone rumors floating around. Specifically, they are claiming that the device’s manufacturing cost will drop, due to device’s lack of on-board storage. Without storage of course, the device will have to get it’s content elsewhere, which is assumed to be from the rumored new MobileMe service.
An excerpt:
Apple decided to lose some of the memory, which is by far the most expensive component of the iPhone (up to one-quarter of the devices cost, according to iSuppli estimates).
By “some” of the memory, we mean ALL of the memory. The iPhone nano will have no memory for onboard storage of media, our source says. It will have only enough memory to buffer media streamed from the cloud.
“I’m talking strictly storage memory here,” said our source.
The device would still require some sort of storage, at least enough for the OS and other necessities. On the flip side, it’s highly unlikely that this new iPhone would be able to run apps in the same way that the current iOS devices do, due to the lack of on-board storage.
I still don’t buy into this rumor. Too many things seem too flaky for Apple to bring to market. A smaller screen, which would undoubtedly be difficult to control? No on-board storage for apps that have made the platform so popular? Maybe this thing does exist, and Apple has all of these problems figured out, but right now on paper, the whole thins sounds very “un-Apple”.
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