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.'"

Re:Really?

[TheSHAD0W]

Yes, but we'll be stuck watching it on those teeny tiny screens.

Apple and the Google

[spellraiser]

Apple: Gee, Google, what are we going to do tonight?

The Google: The same thing we do every night, Apple ... Try to hold ALL THE VIDEO IN THE WORLD!

Re:It already can!

[Ingolfke]

No silly, with advances in carbon nanotubes, quantum computing, and encyption and compression schemes the 1-bit compression system is nearly available to everyone.

Re:Really?

[Furmy]

"I think that enough space to hold all the world's video should be enough for everyone"

News Flash

[Darth Muffin]

Daton, Ohio, Dec. 2nd, 2017. John Smith, a plumber by trade in Ohio, accidentally plugged in his new 20Petabyte iPod into an unfirewalled port on his home router. As a result every video and movie ever made was unintentionally shared out to the Internet. The MPAA is suing for $14 Trillion.

Re:Storage vs. Quality

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude...you should have stated that the video was NSFW :|

Oblig.

[Tmack]

Finally! A place to store all my pr0n!!!
Seriously though, do they realize how many anime tentical rape videos are out there???

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Re:Apple and the Google

[mrchaotica]

Somehow that mental image lends itself more to Microsoft, don't you think?

Ballmer: Narf! Poit!

Re:It already can!

[mgblst]

The compression scheme has been available for years. It is the decompression that has proved to be a little tricky.

Re:Backwards

[smitty97]

increasing volume-to-size ratio.

the phrase is correct, theyre making them louder again.

You forgot pr0n

[slagell]

Add porn, and it will take another order of magnitude more storage!