Apple Sells 100 Millionth iPod

[ebouwman]

Zune to accomplish this feat next week.


Follow the leader is Microsoft's favorite game!

i don't see how that is even remotely possible, to be honest i've never even seen a Zune yet every time i walk down the hallway at my school i see people with iPods

 

[ezekielrage_99]

One Hundred Million iPods..... that's a lot of iPods.

 

[kiang]

the title of the thread is 100 millionth, not 100th.

LOL at that

 

[tigerfan88]

I'm on my second iPod, i had one of the cute white shuffles, but i left it on a bus when its battery ran out (doh' ) and i didnt have music. I have a white 30Gb one now, sooo pleased.
Congrats Apple .

 

[Pikemann Urge]

Thread 500.

One of the best threads I have ever read - thank you for posting this.

I just had a crazy thought: say out of the 100,000,000 iPods sold, 50,000,000 have been thrown away. What if all those were used to create a supercomputer?

I thought of this too, once. I'd like to see it tried just for kicks. I know it won't be efficient but still...

I have bought about four or five iPods but I have this funny preference of buying broken ones to see if I can fix them. It's just more fun and challenging that way (and I can help others fix theirs). Buying a new one is just too easy!

 

[yg17]

i don't see how that is even remotely possible, to be honest i've never even seen a Zune yet every time i walk down the hallway at my school i see people with iPods

Someone's sarcasm detector isn't working right

 

[Maestro64]

the population of the U.S. is about 300,000 so that means that there a third of the population of the US is the same number of iPods sold to date

apple rules

You dropped a few zero's it is 300,000,000. Plus you have to remember that iPods are sold world wide and that population 6 billion and as we have seen most people who buy ipods bought more then one in 5 yrs.

So the total population of people who buy MP3 plays is far less then 100 million. I bet what we are about to see is the MP3 market is now saturated. You will begin to see a much smaller number of new people buying iPods and the total sales more flat and more of people upgrading or replacing what they have.

It took Apple about 5 yrs to reach this point verse Sony with the walkman which took about 10 yrs to hit saturation. But MP3 players were for sale for about 2 to 3 yrs before the Ipod so industry took it about 7 to 8 yrs before the market saturated.

For this reason is why apple came out with the phone, and appleTV, they need to create a new growth market for themselves because we will not continue to see double digit growth in Ipod sales in the future.

 

[theheadguy]

You dropped a few zero's it is 300,000,000. Plus you have to remember that iPods are sold world wide and that population 6 billion and as we have seen most people who buy ipods bought more then one in 5 yrs.

So the total population of people who buy MP3 plays is far less then 100 million. I bet what we are about to see is the MP3 market is now saturated. You will begin to see a much smaller number of new people buying iPods and the total sales more flat and more of people upgrading or replacing what they have.

It took Apple about 5 yrs to reach this point verse Sony with the walkman which took about 10 yrs to hit saturation. But MP3 players were for sale for about 2 to 3 yrs before the Ipod so industry took it about 7 to 8 yrs before the market saturated.

For this reason is why apple came out with the phone, and appleTV, they need to create a new growth market for themselves because we will not continue to see double digit growth in Ipod sales in the future.

Not to start a debate but to clarify diehardmacfan's intended point (as I see it) is NOT to say that 100,000,000 people have been the purchasers of all the iPods in the world, but help people visualize how many iPods 100,000,000 are, i.e. 1/3 of the entire population of the United States (btw in his/her example it shows they obviously know that the pop of the US is ~300M since that is the required number to make the example work )

 

[ebouwman]

Someone's sarcasm detector isn't working right

well ya, it's not quite up and running to full steem
but
i have never even seen one, i don't even know what it looks like

and with that, i'm off to google it...

 

[yagran]

wow

anyone remember this article? and i thought THAT was amazing at the time...
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/jan/06ipodmomentum.html
end of 2001 - 0 million ipods sold
start of 2004 - 2 million ipods sold
start of 2007 - 100 million ipods sold
thats an enormous jump! imagine the graph!

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also the wall street journal ad is on the apple home page for those hu havnt yet seen it

congrats to apple, and i would say that weve been suckers to buy so many...but ive bought 5 or six, and im in no way dissapointed

also check out http://www.apple.com/pr/products/ipod/ipod.html for all the ipod press releases

 

[ppnkg]

I am sure the millions of music lovers who apple sends thankyous to are all regular readers of the WSJ.

 

[JGowan]

I bet what we are about to see is the MP3 market is now saturated. You will begin to see a much smaller number of new people buying iPods and the total sales more flat and more of people upgrading or replacing what they have.

It took Apple about 5 yrs to reach this point verse Sony with the walkman which took about 10 yrs to hit saturation. But MP3 players were for sale for about 2 to 3 yrs before the Ipod so industry took it about 7 to 8 yrs before the market saturated.

For this reason is why apple came out with the phone, and appleTV, they need to create a new growth market for themselves because we will not continue to see double digit growth in Ipod sales in the future.

CUPERTINO, California—January 17, 2007—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 first quarter ended December 30, 2006. The Company posted record revenue of $7.1 billion and record net quarterly profit of $1.0 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $565 million, or $.65 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 31.2 percent, up from 27.2 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 42 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 1,606,000 Macintosh® computers and 21,066,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 28 percent growth in Macs and 50 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

Maestro64, I don't agree with you at all. The Digital File Player is nowhere near "saturated.