With the help of several TV commercials and armed with enough gigabytes to accommodate thousands of songs, the iPod has made an amazing move from its first 2001 release. But rather these days have passed.
Apple sold just 6 millions iPods κατά τη διάρκεια των τελευταίων τριών μηνών που συμπεριλάμβαναν και την περίοδο των γιορτών, σύμφωνα με την τελευταία έκθεση με τα κέρδη της companys. That's a 52% drop since last Christmas, the steepest year-over-year drop for the iPod in as many years as it's been around.
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Meanwhile, the company broke sales records for both the iPhone and iPad during the same period. The success of these two products brought about the death of the iPod.
As can be seen in the table above, the decline in purchases of iPods has been steady and noticeable since 2009, two years after the release of the iPhone, which essentially began to cannibalize the sales of its "brother" iPod. With the iPhone one can have a huge number of files musicalong with everything else that a smartphone does. Thus the iPod's usefulness began to decline. Despite efforts with the iPod Touch, essentially an iPhone that couldn't make phone calls, the iPod remained unclaimed. Even the Steve Jobs He almost predicted it when he said during the iPhone launch in 2007 that it was "the best iPod we've ever made."
