RSS100 iPods Being Sold Every Minute
By Nate Mook | Published January 10, 2006, 12:17 PM
FROM MACWORLD The holiday season proved a boon for Apple Computer, with the company selling 100 iPods every minute in the fourth quarter of 2005. Total sales numbers for the iPod reached 14 million, and topped 32 million for the entire year. The holiday rush also pushed iTunes to an 83 percent market share.
In total, Apple has sold 850 million songs and 8 million TV shows through iTunes. At the current sales rate, Apple is hitting 1 billion song downloads per year and trumping its Windows Media based competitors. According to CEO Steve Jobs, since the iPod's launch, Apple has sold 42 million units.
I have newest video iPod... Works great no problems so far... Damn good, just what i needed... =/ But video support is kinda limited if just could play avi in xvid or divx format... oh well... best player so far ever made...
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|xvid and divx? That wouldn't make Apple millions out of the additional sales of Quicktime Pro now, would it!?!?
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|And 60 years ago it was the Hula Hoop... woop-D-D00-da! :o) For Xmas I got myself a brand new AMD 4200 Dual Core 1 Gig Mem on a ASUS mudder board!... it's so kewl! It's like... click and still the computer beats my mouse click to the finish! And oh yeah, upgraded to a 19" LCD... Wow I SAy Wow!! yeee haww. :o) O Happy day.
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|i work for geeksquad and so many problems with any kind of ipod from the harddrives dieing to a loose harddrive cable and very faulty batteries all ipods should be recalled its just sick i see atleast 50 a day needing to go to a service center to be repaired.
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|100 people being ripped off every minute :P
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|These numbers sound highly inflated to me. No doubt the iPod and iTunes sales are bound to be impressive, but has anyone bothered to corroborate these figures or is everyone just parroting what Jobs says?
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|Did you read the original post? "in the fourth quarter of 2005"
This was for christmas, everything sells at an escalated rate for christmas... so yeah, its probably true, for a month or two.. Christmas is over, so it will be dramatically reduced.
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|I read every word and still would like to know "where's the proof"?
I guess you're one of those types who believes everything you're told without questioning the source.
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|It's a great idea, but I prefer to not be a pedestrian or a student, so I don't need an ipod
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|Wow, that's a bunch.. I had one, returned it. Didn't like it, but hey, everyone else seems to like them.
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|100 iPods Being Sold Every Minute (100 iPods Being Returned Every Two Minutes)
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|Ok so there are allot of IPOD's being returned... but come on lets face it the sales rate is just phenomenal... 100 a min even if there is 100 being returned every 2minutes like the last person said the ratio is still just amazing, but are these figure just marketing hype!?
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|Read the post, this was for the 4th quarter, and just before christmas, they aren't being sold at that rate the whole time.. they are popular right around christmas time.. I guarantee they aren't selling that many now..
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