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MP3 Market Approaching Critical Mass
An anonymous reader writes "Led by the Apple iPod, Jupiter Research says that sales of DAPs are reaching a point where it will ignite an industry of support products and services. According to Jupiter analyst David Card
'Historically, any new device or medium that reaches a U.S. household penetration of 15 percent to 20 percent creates a critical mass of customers for other products and services.' The iPod already has a slew of peripherals out there and this is particularly good news for the paid download services like iTunes, especially with Apple announcing Wednesday they sold another 5.3 million iPods last quarter."
Cripes. These iPods are like Rabbits in Australia!
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
I love that term, it makes it sound like there'll be an explosion. Everyone stop buying i-pods! it's our only hope!
Takes a real Nostradamus to make such a bold prediction.
Insert tenuous ipod reference [here] to make slashdot front page.
I, for one, welcome our new digital music overlords. Wait, shit. Where am I?
Your reading of the stockmarket is pretty shortsighted, I think. The correction which plagues apple stock right this moment is a crisis of faith; the looking for miracles rather than a logical progression of business. it's hard to imagine the ipod being more of success right now, or apple's star to look any brighter in the future.
The idea of a critical mass has a beautiful ring to it, but it is the fundamentals and the continued approach to success which will continue Apple's ascension. It doesn't really matter what the marketplace will bring; with leadership like Jobs is showing the momentum seems like it will just continue.
I know a few people who spent their unemployment checks on iPods.
Gotta have priorities.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
When will the quality of music reach tolerable mass?
The iPod craze is officially over, because Jupiter Research said it is about to explode. Thanks, Jupiter! Thanks a lot!
These are guys who hyped "New Economy" companies until the dot-com bubble burst. With their razor scooters and their afros, they literally destroyed billions of dollars in market capitalization. There is no Earthly trend so massive, no business plan so potent, that Jupiter Research cannot destroy it.
That's why they are called Jupiter. They are big. They have a lot of destructive gravity. And they are made ENTIRELY of gas.
What's a tape deck?
Karma: Excellent (Mainly due to Bill & Ted's Karma Adventure)
Don't people understand that it is dangerous to ride a bicycle while listening to music!?
I think it is unfair to mod this as "offtopic." After all, we are talking about Apple. And Apple, much like Christianity, was founded by a messianic, charismatic figure who could perform wondrous miracles, such as turn water into wine or OS 9 into OSX. Is the Sermon on the Mount not unlike a MacWorld keynote? Did Steve not suffer for our sins at the hands of the prefect Sculley? Did he not wander in the wilderness before retuning to us with the UNIX keys to our salvation?
"Steve, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall buy a maxed-out 17 inch PowerBook and a top-of-the-line iPod."
Machiavelli, a graphic novel