A thought crossed my mind today.
What year will you find a bin full of refurbished iPods in a dollar store?
Or will iPods be picked up at a retro tech boutiques for outlandish prices?
andre
Posted by andre at January 9, 2005 07:09 AMMoore's Law says that computing power doubles every 18 months. The same seems to be true of harddrive capacity, RAM, Flash, etc.
A corollory that I've noticed is that prices come down by 50% every 18 months, as an item obsoleces.
If you do the math, you'll get that a $400 circa-2005 20gig iPod will be worth under $1.00 13 years from now, in 2018.
On the flip side, if you choose to get a new unit 13 years from now, you can expect a $400 iPod then to hold 10 terabytes of music. How many hours is that?
Posted by: Dan at January 9, 2005 10:34 PM