“If sales of Apple’s iPod are any indication, the heyday of the MP3 player is over and done with,” Christina Bonnington writes for Wired. “iPod sales have been steadily declining since their peak at 22.7 million in December 2008, and analysts estimate another 7.2 percent drop over the quarter that just ended.”
MacDailyNews Take: iPod sales are “declining” only if you fail to count the iPods inside every iPhone and iPad sold.
Bonnington writes, “Apple still commands 70 percent of the MP3 player market… [but] rumors have blazed for years that Apple would discontinue one (typically the iPod Classic) or more iPod models, but it hasn’t happened yet… It’s possible that Apple could lay an iPod, likely the old iPod Classic [sic] rather than the more popular iPod Touch [sic], to rest at its upcoming September event.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Will Apple kill the iPod? No. Will Apple kill the iPod classic? Your guess is as good as ours.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill in Sarasota” for the heads up.]