Apr 02
Ipod Sales in 2009
The above chart comes from the NPD Group. The chart shows various sales of iPod, from the starting of the year. In this plot shows the strong growth of sales of the iPod shuffle since the arrival of the new model, estimated to have risen by 51%. This means that a new version is like the crowd in spite of their negative comments.
The bad news comes when you discover that the total sales this year (compared to last year) have fallen by 38%. Although a good percentage of users have bought iphones, which covers the functionality of the ipod.
The iphone does replace the ipod in many sitautions and without the carrier contract, the iphone can be a total ipod killer.
