If you ever had any doubt that consumers that bought iPods would look at Apple computers too, read these latest Apple sales figures and you’ll understand what the “Halo Effect” really can do.
Apple said it sold 1.24 million Macs and 6.45 million iPods during the past quarter, which ended Sep. 24. That’s up from both the prior quarter and the same quarter a year earlier. In the prior quarter, Apple sold 1.18 million Macs and 6.16 million iPods. In the fourth quarter of last year, Apple sold 836,000 Macs and 2.02 million iPods.
I don’t see much strange here. The percentages are about the same margine. I would seriously be looking at a Mac if I could get my hands on the latest “wiz-bang” model for cheap. They are currently priced way out my range. I hope the MacIntels are better priced, but I’m not holding my breath. Apple has a long history of taking something that can be made cheaply and selling it premium prices to consumers, while making it extremely cheap for schools (I remember when Apple donated Mac’s to my old high school).
The Ipod is really just a simple, yet hyped, mp3 player. I recently bought my first mp3 player that was priced in my range. Since I don’t really plan to listen to my music on it, just podcasts, I really don’t need that much space. Also, it came with a built-in digital radio tuner, which sounds awesome, so if I want tunes, all I have to do switch over. It has some other nice, but common features. The only thing that would really appeal to me about the Ipod is the shear amount of space available on it. I think it’s be really cool to take a 60GB Ipod, make it bootable with Linux, so you can not only listen to your music on the go, but plug it into any computer and download more tunes ot podcasts. Now that would be something. :)