Apple Dumps PortalPlayer Chip

Quash writes to mention a BusinessWeek article about Apple's decision to not use the PortalPlayer chip in a future version of the iPod nano. From the article: "PortalPlayer stock promptly shed $9.46, or nearly 42% of its value, and more than $220 million in market value. Apple generally doesn't discuss future products, nor its manufacturing or component supply strategies. It had no comment on the matter. But theories about who may have been the beneficiary of PortalPlayer's misfortune are abounding."

Re:Why were they dumped?

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe their CEO did not greet Steve in the coffee shop earlier that morning...

Re:Why were they dumped?

[gEvil (beta)]

Maybe their CEO did not greet Steve in the coffee shop earlier that morning...

"I'm going to fucking kill PortalPlayer!"

Whoops. Wrong Steve...

I just spoke to Dvorak, he knows.

[Tibor the Hun]

According to him it's Chevrolet!

You heard it here first folks!

It's not you, PortalPlayer...

[mekkab]

It's me. We'll always have the first Nano...

-Apple

In related news...

[tomcres]

...Intel is expected to announce what it is going to do with all of the Pentiums with the FDIV bug that were recalled... stay tuned...

Re:Massive Drop In iPod Demand

[Anonymous Coward]

Holy shit! The crazy Apple fans are in full Protect The Hive mode!

Onward Mac Soldiers! Let the unbelievers perish in a hail of moderation!

Re:Could be good, probably not.

[a_nonamiss]

Apple also needs something a little more robust, to offer such features as some PDA like functionality, games, or better video support (i.e. HD video out).

Yes, Apple clearly needs to do something about it's 80% market share [macnn.com] in the portable music player business. I mean, clearly, consumers aren't about to put up with this shoddiness.

Re:Why were they dumped?

[TheNumberless]

Once upon a time in Cupertino, some believe, around the year two double-aught six, head priest of the Apple, Steve Jobs, was walking down the road, contemplating whatever it is that a man of Steve Jobs' infinite power contemplates - which is another way of saying "who knows?" - when a PortalPlayer employee appeared, traveling in the opposite direction. As the CEO and the employee crossed paths, Steve Jobs, in a practically unfathomable display of generosity, gave the employee the slightest of nods. The nod was not returned. Now was it the intention of the employee to insult Steve Jobs? Or did he just fail to see the generous social gesture? The motives of the employee remain unknown. What is known, are the consequences. The next morning Steve Jobs appeared at the PortalPlayer headquarters and demanded of their CEO that he offer Steve Jobs his neck to repay the insult. The CEO at first tried to console Steve Jobs, only to find Steve Jobs was inconsolable. So began the massacre of the PortalPlayer headquarters and all sixty of the employees inside at the fists of the Apple. And so began the legend of Steve Jobs' five-point-palm-exploding-heart technique.