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iPod Sales to Reach 85 Million in 2006

MonkeyClaw   on 26 April 2006 - 23:55 · 6 comments & 2040 views

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According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple has once again attained an 'outperform' stock rating and as a result, gaining a target price of $99 for company stock. With that, the report continues to state that the iPod is still gaining market share, continuing to hold Amazon's top ten electronics products.

In addition, Munster predicts that Apple will have shipped a total of 85 million iPods by the end of 2006. So far, since its introduction in October of 2001, Apple has shipped over 50 million.

"We do not believe the iPod is the only growth avenue for the company. Indirectly, we expect the iPod to continue to be a foundation for growth in other parts of Apple's business," Munster explains.

News source: Macworld UK

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#1 perochan on 27 Apr 2006 - 02:00
wow, and Im one of iPod owner...
#2 uber_noob on 27 Apr 2006 - 10:33
Woah.. that's a sick number if they reach it this year :|
#3 Blackice on 27 Apr 2006 - 11:56
one day it'll slow down to a crunch, and then what will Apple do?
(1 reply) #4 weemies on 27 Apr 2006 - 12:05
iPod doesn't support Ogg Vorbis, therefore iPod sucks. If I were to encode all my music in mp3 instead of ogg (and retained the same audio quality), my collection would take tens of GBs of more space.

Clearly this is not a concern for most people. After all, Apple doesn't have the largest market share for no reason.
#4.1 aero9 on 27 Apr 2006 - 14:22
hmmm, i didnt know ogg was that good...
how many songs do u have?
#5 Deron Dantzler on 27 Apr 2006 - 12:31
Blackice: It's never slowing down. As they add features those who have older iPods will look to upgrade. It'd be interesting to know how many PEOPLE own iPods as opposed to the total number sold. I bet people have purchased 1.5 to 2 a peice at least.

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