The Billion Dollar iPod Accessories Market

OleSurinam writes "The NYTimes has a story about the lucrative iPod accessories market." From the article: "Making add-ons for the iPod is a $1 billion business. Does that sound like hyperbole? Consider this. Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory, estimates Steve Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group, a research firm. That works out to three or four additional purchases per iPod."

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And of course Apple does its part

[bogie]

By selling WAY overpriced accessories that should be standard with the unit in the first place. $30 for an Ipod shuffle armbad which consists of .50 of materials? Gimme a farking break.

Vendors just have to love the Ipod market. Where else outside of BOSE stores can you rape consumers without a care in the world knowing that they won't ever complain about how overpriced your junk is? Every time I see an official Ipod sock being sold for $29 I want to pull if out of the box and light it on fire. Then I'd give the store manager a dollar and say "Here, go buy a case of Ipod socks with this dollar". That would only be fair.