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iPod To Eventually Hold All the Video In the World?
An anonymous reader writes "A senior Google exec has been talking up the prospect of iPods that can hold all the world's media due to the plummeting price of storage and its increasing volume-to-size ratio. Google's VP of European operations, Nikesh Arora, predicts that in as little as just over a decade's time, iPods will be capable of storing 'any video ever produced.'" From the article: "Arora believes, mobile is likely to follow the same path. 'Mobile is not going to be a different thing,' he added — and if the mobile industry is to capitalize on the growth of content, it would be wise to ape the development of the internet. He said: 'The mobile industry has to go through the same phases the internet has gone through... Mobile will have the same learning curve. It would be somewhat foolish to leapfrog the stages the internet went through.'"
Using some info from Apple's site, because I'm too lazy to look anywhere else, the 80GB iPod holds "100 hours of video." So, using your numbers from IMDB, that makes it ~892 TB. Of course, the amount of "all the world's" videos will have gone up by then as well... and who knows about 18 month doubling (also, the iPods don't use 3.5" drives,) but aren't numbers fun?
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