Not exactly the poster's point. Moving the classic to an "on-demand-only" item (if true, haven't heard anyone else confirm they've been taken off display and I haven't been to my local Apple store since the 2009 product updates) would be a major tip off to where Apple is headed with the iPod family. This year Apple stops promoting them, next year they become web only, and if sales don't stay strong enough, bye-bye Classic. It's not like they've actually done more than slightly re-write the firmware for minor new features (Genius in 2008, Genius Mixes in 2009) and swap hard drives since 2007 anyhow, so a progressive de-emphasis isn't surprising. By 2011 it should be possible to have 128GB flash based devices at the more mainstream price points and at that time, unless they're going to revamp the interface, which they'd had ample opportunity and refused, there will simply be no place for this visibly aging model.