“Spotty shortages abound for Apple Computer Inc.’s wildly popular iPod digital music players amid Wall Street expectations for a doubling in sales of the devices in the holiday quarter, analysts said on Wednesday,” Duncan Martell reports for Reuters. “‘I was at an Apple store just yesterday and the place was packed with people looking at iPods and iPod accessories,’ said Susan Kevorkian, an analyst at IDC in San Mateo, California. ‘There’s no question that iPods are an extremely hot item this holiday season.'”
“Some financial analysts have forecast that Apple will sell 4 million of the market-leading devices in the current quarter, double the number it sold in the previous period, when they accounted for 23 percent of the Cupertino, California-based company’s overall revenue,” Martell reports. “‘The outages are relatively spotty,’ said Stephen Baker, an analyst at market research firm NPD Group.”
Martell reports. “Yet even so, Apple appeared to be largely prepared to meet the demand, Baker said, noting it was more likely that consumers would find the iPod they wanted at a retailer rather than at online stores such as Amazon.com… While the iPod mini is still very popular — there was a six-week wait when they were first available — it’s the 20-gigabyte iPod that’s topping iPod wish lists this year, analysts said. The 20-gigabyte iPod costs $299 and can store as many as 5,000 songs.”
Full article here.
Lots of Pods here in Texarkana, TX.
Plenty at the Apple Store in Boca Raton, Florida… although they said they don’t expect any more shipments until after the first of the year.
That’s nothing. How’s the supply of iPod socks?
the Las Vegas Apple store has plenty too, although everywhere else they are sold out.
Plenty in both Denver locations as well……
iPod iPod iPod zzzzzzz – the hype will eventually kill this product, never miind the competition.
Was in South Coast Plaza store this past Friday. They had plenty of iPods and iPod minis in store, but they appeared to be going fast, especially after I helped my mother pick out a pink iPod mini for my young sister. Earlier in the week, I was in Honolulu, Hawaii for the 2004 Marathon, but didn’t have a chance to visit the Ala Moana store. DAMN!!!!!
Will visit next year.
Olga, a girlfriend of mine was in a large book store – ‘Hugeldubel’ by name – here in Berlin. They’d set up a relatively small ‘Apple corner’, selling iPods, iBooks, and Power Books and, as she intends to buy a Power Book, she stayed a while and talked to an assistant.
Olga told me they sold three Power Books in half an hour and the iPods – particularly the minis – were flying off the shelves.
She was amazed – as I am, because Germany has been lagging behind in iPod and Mac sales – until now apparently. And this was a book shop! – not one of the four or five Apple dealers here in Berlin.
I just remembered that while shopping at a Sam’s/Price Club in Cali, the had a skid of “Apple iPod from HP” which in itself tells me a lot. iPods are in demand. If these large club stores are willing to stock their shelves and floor space with a product, it has to be a top seller. I couldn’t find another other serious MP3 competitor device around.
iPod socks were also available at the Apple Store in Boca. However they were only left ones. I rather have right ones.
Small Dog Electronics has plenty of ’em too (iPod Socks)
My sister-in-law decided yesterday to get her husband an iPod mini. Helping her out, I went to Target, Best Buy, Circuit City – all sold out. Interestingly enough they were all sold out of PS2s as well. I heard a sales rep tell a guy asking about PS2s that they still had plenty of X-Boxes and the guy said, “Yeah but Microsoft sucks”. That put a little Christmas smile on my face. Anyway, I finally went to the Apple Store in Tysons Corner in Virginia and they had iPods minis, but only Silver, Gold and Blue. No pink or green. Merry iChristmas everyone!
Snugfig
I couldn’t find another other serious MP3 competitor device around.
That is a serious statement. The rest of the also rans are going to be run over if they cannot get their product on the shelves. Oh, wait, they already have been run over. Game over.
Sayonara.
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Shieldzee
but only Silver, Gold and Blue.
I think the blue and the gold color for the minis is (f)ugly. I would be surprised if Apple doesn’t refresh the mini line with new colors come MWSF. I am hoping for red to be one of the colors. I know it’s maybe too close to pink, but it’s a better color than the blue or gold. Maybe there could be a really sweet new silver color as well.. “white platinum” or something similar?
Does anyone think the next mini rev will be smaller?
This is a short extract from a recent interview with Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion designer, in the UK newspaper ‘The Telegraph’.
His idea of relaxation, a word he seems to dislike, is to lie in his bath listening to his iPod. One of his 70 iPods, that is.
“I have some white ones but lots of metallic pinks, blues. I have had every single CD I have downloaded. I enjoy gadgets.”
Isn’t 70 rather excessive?
“If I like something I like to have a lot of it,” he says dismissively. “Eccentric? Perhaps I am. But then I know only how I am, not how others are. I never compare, I never compete.”
My prediction for salesthis quarter:- around five million.
charko
Isn’t 70 rather excessive?
Apparently not to him. Are you him?
To me, seems like more of a pain to figure out what’s on what iPod, but if that many iPods suit him, so be it. It’s more a lack of convenience due to excessive management issues than the cost factor, because obviously the cost was not an issue to him.
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My prediction for iPod sales was 6 million this quarter. Looks like I might be short, but we’ll see, and when we do, we’ll see by how much. Many analysts are predicting numbers closer to 4 million. I bet if I’m wrong I’ll be closer than they are.
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