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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Source: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html

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Shiraz Kanga

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

April 10 2007 at 1:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

Not to be the debbie downer here, but how many of the 100 million are currently active? 20 million?

April 09 2007 at 1:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

#7, you're absolutely correct: It should be "Apple announces...."

April 09 2007 at 1:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

Shouldn't the headline read "Apple announces 100 million..."? You're talking about one company, not each person in the group.

April 09 2007 at 11:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric

The iLounge thing reminds me of the travelling gnome prank.

April 09 2007 at 11:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

someone check this: with a leap year, it is 49,788.399

April 09 2007 at 11:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

ok, i didn't factor in a leap year, but that averages out to about 49,813.2 iPods sold per day

April 09 2007 at 11:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Murphy

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...

April 09 2007 at 11:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fraser Drew

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

April 09 2007 at 11:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iteachyoucomputers

I am a public school teacher. The iLounge website reminds me of a unit they do in elementary school called "Flat Stanley!"

April 09 2007 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply