Filed under: iPod Family, Retail, Apple
Apple announces 100 million iPods sold
Apple today announced the sale of 100 million iPods. This surely brings a smile to Dr. Evil, Apple enthusiasts, and shareholders alike as the first iPod was sold a mere five and a half years ago in November 2001. Quoth Steve Jobs from Apple's press release:"At this historic milestone, we want to thank music lovers everywhere for making iPod such an incredible success. iPod has helped millions of people around the world rekindle their passion for music, and we're thrilled to be a part of that."
Of course, it's still a little creepy that Apple refers to the device as 'iPod' instead of 'the iPod,' as if it's some sort of scroll wheel-toting 2nd cousin they're introducing us to, but we won't hold it against Apple until they start posting iWeb photo montages of iPod having a good time at various tourist destinations throughout the world.
There isn't much more to say about the sales milestone for now, but check out the press release if you're into quotes about Apple's success from the likes of Mary J. Blige, John Mayer, and Lance Armstrong.
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Dustin said 10:07AM on 4-09-2007
Stolen from "The Good Shepherd":
"Someone asked me why when we talk about iPod, we dont say "the iPod" , and I told him, "You don't say 'the' when talking about God."
Sorry, just saw it yesterday...
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Sune said 10:28AM on 4-09-2007
Not really iWeb, but it is iPods having a good time at various tourist destinations throughout the world: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/gallery/iatw/
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iteachyoucomputers said 10:42AM on 4-09-2007
I am a public school teacher. The iLounge website reminds me of a unit they do in elementary school called "Flat Stanley!"
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Fraser Drew said 11:01AM on 4-09-2007
wow... if it was (and i know its not) only ever been one iPod bought by any-one person, one is 64 people that live on earth have an iPod.... wow
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Chris Murphy said 11:28AM on 4-09-2007
So with all of this success, when is Apple going to update the iPod with video? It's pretty much unchanged for what - a year and a half?!?
Let's get that touch-screen iPod going...
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matt said 11:39AM on 4-09-2007
ok, i didn't factor in a leap year, but that averages out to about 49,813.2 iPods sold per day
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John said 11:52AM on 4-09-2007
Shouldn't the headline read "Apple announces 100 million..."? You're talking about one company, not each person in the group.
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matt said 12:06PM on 4-09-2007
someone check this: with a leap year, it is 49,788.399
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mark said 1:10PM on 4-09-2007
#7, you're absolutely correct: It should be "Apple announces...."
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Eric said 2:19PM on 4-09-2007
The iLounge thing reminds me of the travelling gnome prank.
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Justin said 4:27PM on 4-09-2007
Not to be the debbie downer here, but how many of the 100 million are currently active? 20 million?
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Shiraz Kanga said 1:42AM on 4-10-2007
In order to celebrate this achievement, I am announcing the release of podLoadr - a simple tool that lets you download content from the web onto your iPod. RSS feeds, Web pages, notes and other documents can now be saved to your iPod for offline review.
Please check it out at http://www.podloadr.com and let me know if you'd like a link to the TUAW feed to be included in the News feed selection panel.
Thanks
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