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The Billion Dollar iPod Accessories Market

Posted by Zonk on from the can-i-have-a-piece-of-that-pie? dept.

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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  1. or be a smarter consumer by LordMyren · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or just start on the right foot and buy a mp3 player from the company that made the first hard drive mp3 player, the company that has patents on the integrated FM tuner, the company that's got integrated USB and SDIO expandability, the company built around open source, Neuros! Do what you will with it! Use standard devices with it, again, not that you need to given the builtin FM tuner.

    The 442v2 is going to be so god damned fscking sweet. I cannot wait. I nearly bought a GP2x; whoops! That would've been a mistake. The neuros is going to rock steady.

    Myren