According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, it will, once Apple releases its terabyte iPod:
Say goodbye to your DVD player and Tivo box?
Perhaps, if one analyst's predictions come true -- they could be replaced by the ubiquitous iPod, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, who issued a research note predicting products in Apple's pipeline.
While predicting what products the notoriously secretive Apple is going to launch next can lead normally rational analysts into flights of "wild speculation," as Munster put it, he believes the company is gunning to be the consumer hub for digital media -- and that it's got a foundation in place to do that.
Muster said that within five years, Apple could release an iPod with one terabyte of storage -- that's almost 17 times the maximum amount of iPod storage Apple currently offers.
Munster envisions a one terabyte iPod as a portable, "coffee table" media center that would allow users to store hundreds of movies and thousands of photos and songs. Munster wrote that fellow Piper Jaffray analyst Les Santiago, who covers data storage technologies, thinks Apple could feasibly release a $500, one terabyte iPod in the next five years.
[Via Gizmodo, again]
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