“Five weeks ago, the iPod Garage boldly predicted that Apple would sell no less than six million iPods in the current holiday quarter. And while this prediction was a full fifty percent higher than that of even the most optimistic wall street analysts, this week’s revelation (brought to you first by the iPod Garage) that Apple is selling every single iPod it can manufacture has led us to believe that our estimate has even more merit than we had originally thought. So let’s take another look at just why Apple will in fact sell six million iPods this quarter,” Bill Palmer writes for iPod Garage.
“Let’s start with what we already know for sure. In the July-to-September quarter of 2003, Apple sold about 330,000 iPods. Then, in the holiday quarter of 2003, Apple managed to sell more than twice that amount, or about 730,000 iPods. We also know that Apple sold 2 million iPods in the July-to-September quarter of 2004, so if we’re to believe that Apple can sell twice as many iPods in a given holiday quarter as it can in the quarter directly preceding it, then we should feel safe in predicting that Apple will sell 4 million iPods during this holiday quarter. Perhaps the rumors were true after all,” Palmer writes. “But wait a minute here, because that number would only hold true in a vacuum, in which there were no other factors at play. And if you ‘ve been paying attention at all during the past few weeks, you’ll know that this is certainly not the case.”
Palmer explains why Apple will sell 6 million iPod units this quarter in his full article, an interesting read, here.
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