iTunes per iPod

Don't forget that not all of those 16 million iPods sold are still working. I'm on my second, and am thinking about getting my third. Also, the people who are most able to buy iPods (grownups) are not the biggest music buyers. It's when the kids get their hands on iPods (probably from their much-badgered parents) and get credit cards or gift cards that iTMS will really grow. But they still have more time than money, and for them KaZaa is the way to go. When you have more money than time, use iTMS.

"...there are too many variables those guys didn't account for" I'm also in Australia, and therefore am stuck without the music store. I'm also an iPod owner, and have more than enough audio on it without ever going near the store. Anyway, the way I see it is that there isn't a link between the number of music store downloads and the number of iPods sold. For instance, there may be people, like me, who have obtained their music from CD's and records, to play back on our iPods. Alternatively, some people, such as my parents, will use the iTMS to download songs they want to listen to, without using any form of mp3 player. Basically, there needs to be much more research into the link between the number of iPods and music store downloads.

Well usually mine contains about 14Gb of music (mostly ripped from my CD collection - since there's no iTMS in Australia yet to purchase songs from), and a couple of hundred Mb of work related things like cisco IOS images, firewall doco, that sort of thing. But at the moment, it's acting as an external firewire drive so I can play around with OS X Server :)

I still like buying music CDs, not that I have much choice, no credit card and no itunes in my country. Still, the 130 CDs i have don't make a huge dent on my 40G ipod. I bought it partly so I could use it as a backup drive for my iBook.

~ 1000 AAC files from iTunes (Holy shit!) ~ 3400 Music MP3 files ~ 700 MP3/AAC with "podcast" genre ~ A complete, bootable install of Tiger ~ Misc File backups (the, if i loose this I will cry stuff)

Geez - what a lame article! Completely crap statistics that ignore the fact CDs account for most of the music on an iPod or in iTunes. Hell - before there was the iTunes store, the only way you got music into the pod was via CD rip (or Kazaa, granted). Talk about FUD! Just because Perry died yesterday doesn't mean you get to make up stories as you go along...COPY!

I have 88 songs from iTms and growing.. if you use the numbers jobs said at wwdc you get 27 songs per iPod

narco how much you seeling it for?

I have 45 or so songs from the ITMS but I've never paid for a single one. How? Freebies. Nothing but weeks of free songs and Pepsi caps. The rest of my iPod Mini is filled with about 40 CDs worth of songs.

I've bought 54 songs from iTMS, but don't have an iPod...