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100 Million iPods
prelelat writes "I find it somewhat hard to believe but this story over at PC world, indicates that the iPod has sold over 100 million units. It also asks how many are broken and replaced which makes me believe the number may be more accurate."
I personally, find it funny, how some people, tend to abuse commas. What is so hard, to understand? This has to be one of the worst headlines ever. It took me 4 times reading it before I started to think I understood what the author was getting at.
To keep on-topic, my 3G 15GB iPod still works just fine. The battery doesn't last the 8 or so hours it used to (more like 6 now), but it still runs like a champ.
today is spelling optional day.
you just made me thing.. of the people trying to "be diffrent"
100 million "diffrent"
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. I am a clueless dumbass who spews random garbage out of my pie hole on a much too frequent basis and deserve to be kicked in the fucking balls for missing the mark so wildly and being such a spectacular failure.
I find it somewhat hard to believe...
...which makes me believe the number may be more accurate.
Ummmmm... what? How the fuck do you make these two statements about the same fucking number/article?
I can't beleive some of these apple fanbois
I've seen atleast five "Who cares about the other statistics about those Ipods, 100 million were sold"
It matters becuase if 95million don't work their market is gonna drop them, and it wont matter how many they sold they'll be dead and known as unreliable, expensive and uncool. All those things matter becuase Ipod itself is not a music player, it's an image, of the owner, of the company that makes it. You own an Ipod you have taste, you are cool. Apple are a cool company. Those other questions matter, because if Ipod were sold purely on that, they could just continue to be kool, but its not based on that, people want to have something that works, that does what they want. It's important becuase it gives us a look at what is NEW- hence it would be NEWS! This is not news because everyone knows Ipod is popular, 100million doesn't really give joe public, who doesn't have these figures at his fingers normally, anything to compare it to- so it isn't news, it doens't tell people something.
>the reason the iPod succeeded in the marketplace is the tight integration of hardware and software
AKA vendor lock-in. All hail the Apple monoculture!
iPods still suck with little innovation as of late. Generic 10$ flash mp3 players from walmart so the same damn thing. So it goes.....
Horns are really just a broken halo.
I not only think the 100 million iPod figure is ridiculous, but also a huge exaggeration. No way could Apple sell that many in that short amount of time. This reminds me of how either Sirius or XM satellite radio claimed that had 6.9 million subscribers when really most of those, "subscribers" were actually satellite radio systems that were already installed inside brand new cars waiting to be sold. I think that Apple may have just put up this figure to encourage confidence in the company and possibly help sell their stock.
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Yeah I am talking to you. The talentless hack who think's they are a poweruser by referring to their Operating System as an "experience". The same person who relys and uses the hardwork of other's each and every day and goes back and spit on it because it doesn't come with a shiny interface. You shit on the efforts of open source while you and your company take from a BSD kernel. And you guys talk about elitism in the Linux world?! At least in the Linux world we provide people with the tools to learn. You Macintosh pseudo-artists just try to hold on to your low marketshare cheering and crying at the same time while Apple makes converts. I refuse to believe that all you frat boy mac love slaves possess Photoshop skills. Just uninstall it, you're wasting your daddy's money that he makes using a Windows platform. Oh and by the way, loading 5280 copies of a library is INEFFICIENT, not "just works". So you can take your Think Different(tm) philosophy and wipe your collective arses with it because you are all the same bunch of mouth breathers. Apple doesn't want or need an Apple Clickaround.
Fucking pinks.
Lazy-ass stinky motherfuckers, every last one.