Apple shares slide; iPod sales disappoint some analysts

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[Gimzotoy]

Is it just me, or does this link merely go to fool.com? Is there an article or something I should be looking for?

Edit: Note for others - If you're not signed up already, you have to click on one of the articles on the homepage. It will request an email address (fake appears to be fine), and tell you you can now view content. After that's complete, the link listed in the article above will work.

[me_94501]

iPod sales disappoint some analysts?? :confused: Apple told them at the Q1 conference all that they expected a drop in iPod sales this quarter; instead sales jump by another 750,000 or so. What were they expecting?

[arn]

ya... just redirects to fool for me too

I removed it from macbytes

[stoid]

I'm wondering too what the analysts were expecting that iPod sales didn't meet. I'd say that iPod sales increasing this quarter is especially spectacular given the apparent lack of Christmas in March.

[wordmunger]

Could this (http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=morenews&guid=%7BCA539C93%2D16C6%2D4494%2D9DA5%2D5DD20E8AA927%7D) be the article that was referred to? Found it on a Google news search.

The iPod, including the new, low-priced iPod shuffle, accounted for $1.01 billion, or 31%, of Apple's total revenue for the quarter.

However, some analysts expected iPod sales of as much as $1.3 billion. Several analysts said iPod revenue was affected by the introduction of the iPod shuffle, which starts at $99. Analysts estimated that Apple sold more than 2 million iPod shuffles in quarter.