Apple weighs over Flash memory price

To ensure their supplies of NAND flash memory for the iPod nano, Apple bought Samsung 40% of their overall production volume.
This very important draw on those components weighs over the flash memory prices, that increase in quite a worrying way.
The nano should thus be part of a future increase of prices for other devices such as USB keys, or camera memories for instance.
For Apple, this collateral damage at least has one advantage, it will increase the distance with competitors on the flash memory MP3 player market, who are eager to upgrade their capacities in keeping to that of the nano.
To give it a final touch, Macworld lets us know that the South Corean government decided to investigate about the agreement betwenn Apple and Samsung. It is a consequence of the competitors complaint about an agreement that allowed Apple to buy their flash memory quite under market prices.