“Apple has sold more than 30 million iPods around the world, it announced today. The player, introduced in November 2001, has also led to sales of more than 600 million songs from Apple’s iTunes Music Store,” Mark Prigg reports for The Evening Standard. “After just a month, a million video files had been sold via its website and thousands of enthusiasts had set up their own video ‘podcasts’ that could be downloaded to the device. ‘Selling one million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads,’ said Apple chief Steve Jobs.”
“Apple already sells episodes of TV shows Lost and Desperate Housewives in America and is in negotiations with several major broadcasters in Britain. Experts say that if Apple can provide enough TV shows for the device, the iPod could do for the TV industry what it did for music,” Prigg reports.
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