Apple iPod update from Macworld
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Posted by: James Kim
Post date: 1/10/2006
OK, it's so predictable that it's not cool anymore except to Mac zealots, but Steve Jobs's "one more thing..." statement did not reveal a new iPod. In its place was the "man, my G4 PowerBook is a piece of crap" MacBook Pro announcement--cool stuff! But Steve did brag a bit about the current state of the world's most popular MP3 player, and here are the bits:
- 14 million iPods were sold in the last quarter of 2005, compared to the 4.5 million iPods sold in the last quarter of 2004
- 42 million plus: the total number of iPods sold so far
- 32 million iPods sold in 2005 (!)
- 850 million songs sold through the iTunes Music Store since its launch--that's 3 million songs a day
- iTunes Music Store has an 83 percent market share for downloads, even with the presence of Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music, and so on
- 12 TV shows are available for download in iTunes
- 8 million videos have been sold since the video iPod's October 2005 launch
- Sports content such as Rose Bowl clips was added last week
- Saturday Night Live skits were added today
- iPod Radio Remote ($49) announced today
- Chrysler is the first American auto manufacturer to integrate iPod support in cars
- 40 percent of cars sold in 2006 will be iPod ready
- New iPod A/V Connection Kit ($99) includes the Universal Dock, the iPod A/V cable, dock adapters, the Apple Remote, a USB power adapter, and a dock connector to a USB cable--basically all the things that the iPod should have shipped with. Still, if your iPod's going to reside in your living room, this is not a bad deal, since the power adapter, the dock, and the remote alone cost about $99.
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