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Apple Reaches Milestone of 100 Million iPod Touch Units Sold
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Yeah, i HATE funky "chemicals" they are so funky and unnatural, I prefer all other sort of matter not made up by "chemicals" yuck just thinking about "chemicals" makes me puke.
I live my life free of all kinds of "chemicals" and only eat organic produce free of the deadly DHMO.
The (2nd gen?) iPod Touch is what started my Apple addiction. I've since owned two Shuffles, four iPads, two iPhones, and an Air.
iPod Touch was my entry drug.
iPod Touch was my entry drug.
I thought that, but then I keep reading that the iOS GUI wasn't really any different to everything else (Palm, Win CE etc) and that Apple have never invented anything, so I must have been wrong...
Have you actually tried one of those devices? I used this (http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Sharp-Willcom-03-The-Japanese-Diamond-3.jpg/) before my iPhone and also had a win CE PDA. The tech wasn't new I grant you, but I can still remember my shock at the smoothness and quality of the touch controls on the iphone.
Yeah, I figured it was due to smartphone sales.
That's the reason I got rid of my iPod touch as well.
Total cost of ownership of a smart phone is so much higher than an iPod Touch, though. That's why I have an iPod Touch instead of an iPhone. I'd definitely consider buying another one at some point (though my next iOS purchase will probably be the Retina iPad Mini if/when that ever materializes).
How long has it been since the last time you did some cleaning behind your bed?!
like never
Beat that, Samsung.
does anyone own a galaxy player? I never even knew they made those iPod touch ripoffs till today.
congratulations apple, you deserved it.
love my ipod touch. i hope we see a new version of ipod at the WWDC.
love my ipod touch. i hope we see a new version of ipod at the WWDC.
Still wish they would offer an iPod Touch with just data like they do the iPad. Even with iPhone plan/rates dropping it still is too expensive for some needs.
Would be great to be able to get an iPod Touch with a $15 month to month 250mb data plan.
Would be great to be able to get an iPod Touch with a $15 month to month 250mb data plan.
I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. I'm not saying there's no more need for an iPod Touch, I was agreeing with another poster earlier that we both thought that 100 million iPod Touch units sold isn't much, we expected much more since it's been out a long time. The Smartphone craze has done nothing short of climb to the highest mountain in popularity especially since you can do pretty much everything on them that the iPod Touch does. iPhone and other smartphones are taking away sales from the iPod Touch.
I own ten of those 10 million.
dude, it's 100 million not 10 million.
i own four of those 100 million ipod touch.
good work apple, keep it up.
Yeah, i HATE funky "chemicals" they are so funky and unnatural, I prefer all other sort of matter not made up by "chemicals" yuck just thinking about "chemicals" makes me puke.
I live my life free of all kinds of "chemicals" and only eat organic produce free of the deadly DHMO.
That sound. . .that was the joke flying over your head.
OK, yeah - I agree that smartphone sales have definitely eaten into what would otherwise been iPod Touch sales.
OTOH, I think that a lot of people with smart phones would probably be just as happy with an iPod Touch, especially since the introduction of iMessage. I'd bet that more people send text messages with their iPhones than make actual phone calls. You don't need an iPhone to do that anymore. Also, since most people probably have wi-fi access where they typically use their phones, a mobile data plan isn't a strict requirement either.
How long has it been since the last time you did some cleaning behind your bed?!
Huh? Getting personal, are we?
and thank you Apple for recycling all those lithium-ion batteries. I couldn't imagine the e-waste if Apple didn't provide a green initiative.
I have to agree with bedifferent. Recycling them is probably a much better idea than having those batteries being incinerated or going into landfills where they will leach carcinogens for decades, that will ultimately end up in our drinking water.
That's iPod Touch, not iPod. Most of them were sold when various iPhones were sold as well, and all the hundreds of millions of iPhone users are people who have money, like Apple products (therefore potential iPod Touch customers) who are _not_ going to buy an iPod Touch.
I think total iPod sales are about 300 million.
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Used 3GS 32 GB from eBay plus £10 for a SIM card to make it work
And it can make phone calls / get on the Internet if I have to (Internet = £1 per day). The grandchildren were laughing when they saw it, then I showed them my iTunes library on the phone and they didn't even know that much music existed!
i ended up buying a karma 4G hotspot. device is $79 and $14 for every GB
pay as you go
350 million as at Sept 2012.
Still rockin my old classic until they put a decent size memory in the touch.