“The debut of the iPod mini, Apple Computer’s newest portable music player, has many digital music fans singing its praises and competitors singing the blues. Priced at $249, the device packs spacious capacity into a compact unit, along with colorful styling and a smaller price tag, to Apple’s already-popular iPod lineup. Apple announced had booked online orders for more than 100,000 units — representing sales of $25 million — even the mini’s official launch,” John M. Moran reports for The Hartford Courant.
“Launch of the iPod mini comes amid sharply rising sales of songs over the Internet. Experts said consumers who buy music in that format then want portable players that give them the flexibility to take that music with them in the car or on foot. ‘It looks like a very slick product,’ said John Barrett, a research analyst who tracks portable audio players for market research firm Parks Associates. ‘I think it raises the bar a little bit for everybody. People are going to expect the players to be smaller and still hold quite a few songs,'” Moran reports.
“The 100,000 iPod minis sold by advance orders represent about 2.6 percent of the 3.8 million digital music players sold during 2003. Parks Associates projects sales of 5.1 million portable audio players this year,” Moran reports. “Initial sales of the iPod mini represent only a small bite of Apple’s $6.74 billion annual revenue. But the product helps extend the company’s considerable presence in the digital music industry. Apple’s iTunes Music Store, which sells digital music over the Internet, is estimated to have 70 percent of the market for downloaded music sales.”
Full article here.
My fiancee wants one.
2.6% of last year’s market before it even hit the stores?!? That’s pretty amazing when you think about it.
Buy her one with that great tax return- you know who to thank.
My wife got hers last Thursday. After showing the pretty little thing at work, three of her co-workers ordered a mini ipod. They basically sell themselves.
Go Apple!!
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MY MINI CAME!!!!
and so did i
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ok someone’s gonna say it so it may as well be me… my mini is now a very slick product 😮
Mac Beth,
Is it even waterproof? I hope Apple honors warranty for damages caused by other unadvertised uses of mini. Have fun with it. 😀
nobody,
eat yr heart out
how sad it is that people measure the value of their president by how much money they get back at the end of one year, without comparing it to what they and their kids and grand kids will be paying for the next 40 years.
sorry for the political discourse. this one was for grandpa
Ack! Those things are so cool, I should’ve pre-ordered one. Now I have to wait a couple weeks for Amazon to get a new shipment in. >_<
Grandpa: tax return… what tax return. You must be thinking of some one else. The rich.
Not available in Japan yet 🙁
Billy Boy and Randy-Grandpa was being sarcastic. I would much rather see a few more jobs and increased spending on education than being able to buy an iPod and listen to Led Zeppelin because of a few extra dollars from a tax return.
But I would trade even those lofty goals just to hear what’s on Mac Beth’s iPod- Robert Plant by chance?
Or to hear Mac Beth on Mac Beth’s iPod
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Grandpa, Billy Boy, and Randy,
President Bush is doing an excellent job. You better hope that liar Kerry doesn’t get elected. Now that would be a nightmare! You idiots shouldn’t bring up politics here and ruin the thread. The majority of Americans are extremely pleased with Bush. Don’t believe everything your liberal, underpaid, left wing controlled media reports to you.
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Dammit Mac Beth! You made me choke on my coffee! Did you get the pink one? My wife is undecided between pink and gold.
“President Bush is doing an excellent job.”
Please educate us. Tell us exactly what is “excellent” about the job he’s doing. Point by point please. I challenge you.
“The majority of Americans are extremely pleased with Bush.”
Really? Despite the fact that he lied about the reasons for going to war? Despite the fact that the economy is tanking and consumer confidence is down? Despite the fact that the tax cuts limit government revenue, and the war is costing billions, resulting in the largest deficit in U.S. history, which our descendants will be burdened with? Despite the fact the so-called “Patriot Act” is an assault on our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms? Etc ad nauseam.
Show me your majority pal. And spare me the accusatory “liberal, left-wing, unpatriotic” mantra of the Bushies. This is one Republican who thinks that Bush has been disastrous for our country. You need to get your head out of your ass and really take a good hard look at our “leadership.” Bush has betrayed the United States and the Republican Party.
viridian,
First of all you are not my pal. You are not a Republican, please stop lying. Bush is going after terrorists and making the world a much safer place. It won’t be easy but at least he’s doing something great about it. These low life terrorists only understand force. You can debate with all you want while they blow up your family or poisen them. I shudder to think what would happen if one of you wussy Democrats somehow steals the election. Bush did not by the way and anyone who thinks he did does not know the US laws. The economy is kicking ass everywhere. These are unpleasant times and thank god we have the right leader running things right now. Iraq will be a much better safer place and make the world safer too once the dust settles. Bush did not lie about anything. You watch they will find Saddam’s weapons in Siria, Iran or in Iraq or worse in a terrosists car in your neighborhood where they would have wound up with more to follow anyway with Saddam still in power. Please go back to France and stay there.
Concerned Citizen,
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The predictable answer from the Bushie hive-mind. I disagree with him therefore I’m not a Republican. I think he lied therefore, I’m “unpatriotic.” If you think the Republican Party is united behind Bush, or should be, you have a serious case of toys in the attic. Saddam’s weapons are in “Siria”? Bush is such an inveterate liar, he’ll announce that the “Spirit” Rover found them cached on Mars. The economy is “kicking ass” huh? It must be kicking it’s own ass, because the dollar is at historic lows. Iraq will be a much better safer place? For whom? Certainly not for the Iraqis when this administration’s policies have incited civil war among the Shia, Sunni and Kurds. Why am I even bothering to debate with you? You’re a prime argument for the continuation of stem-cell research. Maybe, just maybe, they can grow you a brain.
viridian,
Please, your maskerading as a Republican is growing old. It’s extremely apparent that you are a liberal, left wing, Tim Robbins, loving, nut case. All businesses around mine and including my business are kicking ass. The stock markets up, etc., etc., etc. These are tuff times and tuff things have to be done as demonstrated. Keep your head in the sand lefty. The boogie man will leave you alone then. You are a great excuse for abortion. You are probably sipping esspresso in a cyber cafe in your adopted country of France right now. How’s the weather over there right now?
My American friends. The rest of the world doesn’t give a damn about internal US politics. We are extreemly interested in American Foreign policy but calling Kerry, or Bush for that matter, a liar, boring. As for taxes, you have the lowest in the world, quit whining.
Viridian,
I admire your attempts to talk some sense into the raving MORON, but you are wasting your time. The folks that are still supporting this lying criminal in the white house are so beyond hope there is no point in bothering.
Let them wait till November and see just how many people want this f*cker GONE! (Provided of course that they don’t steal the election AGAIN!)
If this idiot makes less that 200k a year and is still waving the flag, then he and his retarded family deserve what they are getting. It wouldn’t be the last time the intellectually challenged simpletons of the country voted against their own best interests.
Concerned Citizen,
Right. In your reality no Republican questions Bush’s leadership, at risk of being labeled “unpatriotic” or worse. My first responsibility is to this country and the constitution, not to any political party, even my own, and ALL Americans have a patriotic duty to speak up when they feel that any leader, even those they put in office themselves, are failing our nation. You run a business? What, a popsicle stand? Your ignorance of the economy is nothing short of breathtaking. Amazing. You can use a computer and don’t know about spell check. You can’t even give reasoned answers to serious questions about Bush and his handling of the affairs of our great nation, you only spout unimaginative juvenile insults at those who do. Keep sucking at Curious George’s ass, it’s obvious that you have an unbounded appetite for his brand of shit.
I find it ironically funny that Bush has been so successful at portraying himself as a champion for the “common man”, when he is a scion and beneficiary of a powerful New England political dynasty, who attended an elite prep school and Yale University. Some Texan.
Call the Better Business Bureau about that cheap imitation knockoff brain you got on Ebay. Stick to talking about Macs, you know jack about politics. Moron.
“Please, your maskerading as a Republican is growing old. These are tuff times and tuff things.”
Maskerading? Tuff?
You can’t even fucking spell and you want us to take anything you say seriously?
Go back to 6th grade and fishing your schooling you pathetic idiot!