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Apple Prepares For the Coming iPod Slump
Hugh Pickens writes "Companies like AOL have stagnated along with the products that made them successful as a mature market and downward pressure on prices led to a nasty death spiral, but Saul Hansell writes in the NY Times that Apple has used its amazing six-year run with the iPod to nurture other business lines. Even though the number of iPods sold this quarter grew only 1 percent from the same quarter a year ago, Apple should be able to sustain itself with three business lines that will help it withstand a collapse in the MP3-player market: a continuing revenue stream from the iPods that have already been sold because of the iTunes Store, product upgrades to the iPhone and iPod Touch that are so different that they may well appeal to a significant number of iPod users, and perhaps most significantly, sales of the Macintosh which showed an increase of 51 percent by units and 54 percent by dollars."
*cough* China *cough* 1.5 Billion (said with Dr. Evil inflection) potential customers.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Most are soldered on.
You don't have to send the iPod to replace the battery.
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MP3 players have never been a necessity.
People like style and quality. Apple packed both with their music player.
Then they dominated the market. No real surprise there.
Apple prices have lowered, and the shuffle is a great device for what it does.
No I am not a fanboy of Apple, but these device are really good.
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