“In a best effort to meet demand for its top-selling iPod nano this holiday, Apple Computer is building and shipping 100,000 of the ultra-slim digital music players each day, reliable sources tell AppleInsider,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider. “It’s unclear how long the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPod maker has been manufacturing the players at the current rate, which would amount to approximately 9 million units per quarter. In recent weeks Apple has made moves to increase its output of iPod nanos, which are the company’s best selling items this holiday season.”
“According to sources, last week members of Apple’s marketing team wrangled over the release of 1GB iPod nano — essentially a 2GB nano sans half the flash memory — which the company recently showed to its business partners and considered for release early next year,” McLean reports. “Some members of the team reportedly argued that 1GB iPod nano would occupy the same value space as a redesigned iPod shuffle, which Apple is expected to introduce at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco during the second week of January.”
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I thought the iPod Mini weren’t popular and “nobody wanted them”.
So much for the anal-lyst.
Rock on Steve!
{Just a slightly off topic}
I’m currently at Yorkdale Mall in Toronto (visiting familyu and friends) outside the only Apple store in Canada. There is a horde of people inside the store. You can hardly move without inflicting bodily harm to other patrons.
Ah, rock on Steve!
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“I’m currently at Yorkdale Mall in Toronto (visiting familyu and friends) outside the only Apple store in Canada. There is a horde of people inside the store. You can hardly move without inflicting bodily harm to other patrons.”
Too bad for you it’s not summertime. More fun bumping up against girls when they don’t have so many layers of clothes on.
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I like steve Ballmer. He seems like a really fun guy. I was looking at some video’s of him at Microsoft events, and I like his style. He gets down and dirty and just doesn’t care about looking professional. I admire that a lot. It is too bad that he works for the worst company ever, because if he was doing something like hosting the discovery channel show “dirty jobs”, I wouldn’t be able to get enough of the guy (not that I don’t like Michael Rowe…he is great too).
what’s the point of having a MacdailyNews” and an “iPodDailyNews” if they are going to cover the same stories?
They should have introduced the 1 GB iPod nano at a slightly higher price than the shuffle (say $149 or $159) as a special or limited edition. They should have announced this at the same moment the supply of the 1 GB shuffle dried up.
They could even have said it would only be on sale through Christmas 2005.
They’d have sold thousands.
maybe its time to bundle a free mac with purchase of an ipod?! imagine the market share.
Too bad for you it’s not summertime. More fun bumping up against girls when they don’t have so many layers of clothes on.
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To quote the most esteemed scholar of our time, Billy Madison,
“That’s assault, brotha!”
MacMania
“I thought the iPod Mini weren’t popular and “nobody wanted them”.”
How is a ipod mini the same as an ipod nano?
nano has replaced the mini.
a 1 GB nano even with the screen is really confusing to consumers since the main way they understand the diff between players is the amount of space, I think they should do the opposite, make 1 and 2 GB shuffles dump the 512mb, and do 4GB and 8GB nanos instead.
Keep the product lines clear, the lack of screen of the nano is not enough, or they should just cancel suffle all together which is silly since it is very cool for different reasons then the nano by being more rugged, and useable in more crazy situations for that reason.
I can snowboard with a suffle and not feel like a fall will break it, where as a nano as strong as it is does have a fragile screen.
I’m sorry, but wouldnt a 1 GB nano be just as good as a 1GB shuffle, just with a click wheel and screen?
I think they should up the storage to 4 and 6 and keep the pricing.
“maybe its time to bundle a free mac with purchase of an ipod?! imagine the market share.”
Perhaps a better way is to wait and watch all those iPod buyers convert to Mac over the next 18 months at the full price…. same affect on market share and more money for R&D, for more and more and more Apple products.
Apple is on its way to making every other tech company look staid, dull and static…
..A bit like David Cameron now leading the UK Conservatives…Charlie Kennedy, Gordon Brown and to a lesser extent Tony Blair are being made to look like dull, boring, yesterdays men…
OOOppps, excuse me I thought this was the Mac Daily News.
MDN should make its iPodDailyNews link BIGGER and BLINKING.
Drop the new colored shuffle to $50 bucks and make a $129 1gig nano and reap in the bucks at every price point.
in other news there’s a great engadget article with rob glaser where he says, he’s not worried about apple..cuz you know.. they’re still workin on Harmony..
oh yeah.. and everyone listens to their mp3s on their phones anyway … LOL
100,000 nanos a day.. ouch.. that’s insane