Apple’s new iPod Nano delayed

An analyst at American Technology Research, Shaw Wu, has received indications for that Apple might delay the launch of its new 4GB and 8GB iPod Nano models. This may not sound like such a big deal but based on this Shaw Wu has lowered his evaluation of Apple’s 12 month stock value with 25% (!), from 101 dollar per stock to 75 dollar. The problem is that Apple might miss the school start with its new iPod Nano players, which is usually the company’s strongest sales period. The new models was suppose to be launched during the third quarter, but now it seems that they could be delayed until the fourth quarter since Apple switched supplier of the player’s multimedia chip. It has closed off the deal with PortalPlayer and switched to Samsung which apparently hasn’t gone as smooth as many had hoped.