They were thinking, no-one wants hard-drive based storage anymore because its harder on batteries, bigger, louder and is more easily damaged due to jolts when the hard-drive is reading or writing. Especially when you're reading and writing to disk all the time like you would when using an ipod touch/iphone as opposed to hitting up a list of songs and then leaving the drive alone for a while (which is how the classic works)
Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:25:13 PM
r3tr0r0ck3r: iPod Classics have an actual HD in them, while iPod Touches and iPhones (as with the smaller iPods) have flash drives or something similar.
Although flash drives and similar technologies do have an amazing storing capacity it is still nowhere near as HDs' capacities.