New iPods to Have Samsung Inside

[Audioholics]

<A href="http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/iPodSamsungchips.php"><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 94px" alt=[samsunglogo1] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/samsunglogo1_th.gif" align=left border=0></A>On Wednesday April 26th Samsung Electronics Co. announced it was awarded a major contract with Apple Computer Inc. The South Korean consumer electronics firm won its bid to produce the chips that will appear in Apple's next generation of iPod MP3 players. Samsung already makes many of the iPod's NAND flash memory chips so the new contract further entrenches Samsung technology into the iPod. PortalPlayer's stock has been in free fall since the announcement was made (PortalPlayer is the company the made the current batch of Apple iPod chips).

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[MikeyB]

I'm confused - how is a $0.56 decrease in stock price a "free fall"?

 

[MikeyB]

Oh, I get it now... it happened a week ago! Sorry for the confusion...

 

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[Wayde Robson]

Free fall since PortalPlayer's anouncement that it lost the contract which was over a week ago.

Actually "free fall" is one of those cliche expressions I should stay away from. It's meaning is only implied and ambiguous. It's so overused it can no longer be consdiered a colorful metaphor. Thanks for the wud up on da English tip 'yo.

Wayde