“Apple Computer is making an absolute killing with its ultra small iPod Nano. How good is the bounty you ask? Well, Apple is shipping about 100,000 units of the iPod Nano alone. Pretty impressive figure for a year, right? Think again, because Apple is shipping this many units every single day,” Varun Dubey writes for CoolTechZone. “The situation is so ridiculously delightful for Apple that it has partnered with Synaptics to help make the Clickwheel as well, since Apple itself is not able to meet demand.”
Dubey writes, “This has prompted Apple to perhaps consider 1GB variants of the Nano and rightfully so. The reason being is that despite all the hoopla about the scratches, people do indeed fancy the Nano for its sexiness. The other rumor doing the rounds is that Apple will drop the price of its iPod Shuffle to $80 for the 512MB variant. We might just see the iPod Shuffle being priced at $80 and $129 (for 1GB) while the Nano will sell for $149 for the 1GB edition. It has been fairly obvious that people are always willing to pay for the style and not necessarily the features (notably the Nokia 8800).”
“Apple could in fact pull a fast one on all of us and discontinue the Shuffle 1GB altogether and replace it with the 1GB Nano. I wouldn’t be surprised.. Needless to say, 2006 will be a rather successful year for Apple. It’s already sold out of its 1GB iPod Shuffle, it’s selling 100,000 iPod Nano units per day, and of course, with the Intel Yonah based Apple notebooks debuting in the second week of January, Apple shows no sign of slowing down,” Dubey writes.
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