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U.S. Mac Sales Up 7% Year-Over-Year in July and August, iPod Sales Down 16%
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If they ask, they're not your friends. (At least, you don't want them as friends....)
Life is too short for homophobia.
Maybe I'm a minority, but I do not like these "Jack of all trades but master of none" devices. If I want to shoot video, I'll use my Canon HV20. IMHO, the only use for a cell phone camera (now an iPod camera) is to video Sasquatch if you stumble upon him while hiking. 
Yes they are. I think the difference is that touch is a hi-end product, so they are upgraded less often. People who bought a new iPod every year, now buy less frequently, but they buy a more expensive models.
Well, the iPod market is saturated. Everyone has an iPod, and that 1 cool guy at every office has a Zune. Prices are lower, and people are oping for a suffle or nano, and a touch. Or they are just grabbing a touch. I see very few classics out there. People that generally think classic, more than likey save up a little more dough and go with the touch.
I just got the new nano but never had one before. I still have 2 working ipods, my old G4 b/w 20GB and a G5 80GB both never leave the house one lives in the dinning-room iHome the other is attached to one of the TVs. I also still have my first 8GB iPhone (card out used like a touch) and my new 3GS. I should not need another pod for 2 years, at least.
6,000,000,000 - 220,000,000 = 5,780,000,000
5.78B So yeah quite a few
I'm sure 3rd world countries are a great source of iPod customers.
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I think that it makes a lot of sense that iPod sales are down. There really hasn't been a major change in the lineup in years so people aren't motivated to buy a new one. We will have to see what happens with the new Nano.
I think that it makes a lot of sense that iPod sales are down. There really hasn't been a major change in the lineup in years so people aren't motivated to buy a new one. We will have to see what happens with the new Nano.
The last iPod I bought was 1G touch in early 2008 to upgrade from my 5G.
Now I have an iPhone 1G and don't see myself getting another iPod in at least 2 years.
Most people around me who had iPods either eventually upgraded to iPhone or are planning to do so soon instead of getting another iPod, so the decline in iPod sales isn't surprising.
Now I have an iPhone 1G and don't see myself getting another iPod in at least 2 years.
Most people around me who had iPods either eventually upgraded to iPhone or are planning to do so soon instead of getting another iPod, so the decline in iPod sales isn't surprising.
I think, maybe, you should look at your chart again; it gives the lie to your statement. Apple just announced a 7% growth of Mac sales, year-over-year. This means that desktop sales didn't "plunge (again)" because your own chart shows that desktop sales ROSE last quarter. This could easily mean that where portables have been Apple's primary computer sales over the last couple years, desktops are starting to grow again to replace aging PCs and PPC Macs.
What's a real grief is when you hear someone say "Snow Leopard is SLOW," on a G5. Well DUH! Snow Leopard isn't supposed to run on a G5.
Considering there are 1.2 Billion operating PCs in the world, Apple needs to sell 5x more iPods to give every PC its own music player.
Give us a reason to buy, Apple....
New iPods every fall but I still hold onto my click wheel iPod 30GB for my car and my iPod Touch for mobile use. Why should I buy something newer? To get a little more memory? Slightly improved performance? A weak built-in speaker and no built-in mic?
Had Apple rolled out a faster iPod Touch with camera, FM radio, built-in mic, more memory and faster performance I would have fought the crowds at the Apple store and paid full price - something I rarely do. Stupid move, Apple....
New iPods every fall but I still hold onto my click wheel iPod 30GB for my car and my iPod Touch for mobile use. Why should I buy something newer? To get a little more memory? Slightly improved performance? A weak built-in speaker and no built-in mic?
Had Apple rolled out a faster iPod Touch with camera, FM radio, built-in mic, more memory and faster performance I would have fought the crowds at the Apple store and paid full price - something I rarely do. Stupid move, Apple....
And here I have one iPhone, one iPod Touch, two Classics, a 1st-gen Nano and a first-gen iPod (finally dead after spending 5 years as my primary car audio source.)
Maybe I'm a minority, but I do not like these "Jack of all trades but master of none" devices. If I want to shoot video, I'll use my Canon HV20. IMHO, the only use for a cell phone camera (now an iPod camera) is to video Sasquatch if you stumble upon him while hiking.
The iPod video camera (and the Flip, Panasonic, Kodak, etc...) are intended to be 'snapshot' video, not high-grade stuff, even if they are HD capable. It gives the everyday consumer an ability to record and 'report' on unusual events that might be missed by commercial news. The unusual is becoming more visible because of digital technology.
and most of us who have iphones don't have 3 ipods because we don't see the need. my ipod classic is in a drawer somewhere because i don't think it works anymore
i agree. definitely wouldn't need another MP3 player, ever. if i upgrade my phone to the next best thing (right now 3Gs) i'll keep this as my pseudo iPod
Everywhere I go I see more and more macs. Most of the people who get them do so at the recommendation of their friends. More people get macs = more people telling other people to get macs. I love it!
I wasn't talking about quarter over quarter sales. I was talking about comparing Q1 '09 to Q1 '08. This is how most analysts assess Apple's performance since there are natural fluctuations between quarterly shipment numbers (Back to School, Holiday, etc shopping seasons).
Spin it however you want, but 728,000 desktop sales (Q1 '09) is lower than 977,000 (Q1 '08) at the same time the year before. Additionally, 818,000 (Q2 '09) is lower than 856,000 (Q2 '08) at the same time the year before.
Apple's desktop sales have been up every quarter since 2006 except Q1 and Q2 of this year. The big question is why and how are they going to remedy it? It's likely they'll make significant price cuts to the iMac line just like they did with the portable line earlier this Spring.
Maybe, again, you should look at that chart. Whether it's quarter-over-quarter or year-over-year, the important point is that while iPods and portables are falling, desktops are rising to take up some of the slack. Of course, if you were to show a similar chart for all the other brands (something I noticed you specifically avoided) you might see that Apple is the ONLY brand that saw a rise in desktop sales and even with their drops, with the exception of the sub-portable 'netbooks' Apple's sales are the only brand that really show any positive growth at all.
I cannot blame any brand for showing a drop of sales over the last 18 months or so--the financial market has been the pits and is only starting to level out somewhat. For any brand to show any positive growth at all in these circumstances says something about that brand and their products. I recommend we wait until the economy equalizes before we talk about any one brand going 'under.'