iPod flourishing, gaining market share

MacNN ^ | 04/25/2006

[Wormwood]

My iPod allows me the freedom to set the soundtrack of my life. I only hear what I want to.

Thanks, iPod.

[listenhillary]

[jdm]

Somebody's making money.

Maybe not the greatest stock, but certainly better than NY Times. :)

[satchmodog9]

I have 500gb of music downloaded from cd, album and cassette. I love being able to put them on my ipod when I want. I listen to my favorite talk shows when I can and the rest of the time, the IPOD is going.

[jdm]

Ping.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I have a 20GB iPod, the older non-color screen model. I love it. It makes shopping more enjoyable, exercising more enjoyable, and lets me carry podcasts from commentators like Rush around with me. I even have some old Ronald Reagan radio commentaries on my iPod.

Ipods rock.

[Revolting cat!]

Somebody splain it, pleeze to the technologically backward. (Are we 12th century, or what?) What are Podcasts and why should I care? (I know, I know, Wikipedia, Google, the new improved Axe.com, but come on!)

[6SJ7]

What are Podcasts...

Just think of them as audio recordings, just like one would record on an old cassette player, but stored on the iPod. The advantage is podcasts offer the ability to have your iPod automatically download the latest show. Plug the iPod in to the computer and it syncs up with iTunes to download any new podcasts for any shows to which you subscribe.

[6SJ7]

I should add, you don't even need an iPod to listen to podcasts. If you have a computer, Mac or Windows, with iTunes, you can subscribe to podcasts and listen to them on your computer. Of course the iPod makes it all nice and super portable.

[Revolting cat!]

OK, thanks, that's more concise than what I found on Wikipedia. Now, I was asking because while hunting for some legal MP3 in recent days I ran into offers of podcasts on various performers sites. But I was looking for MP3s of individual tunes, and it didn't seem to me that the podcasts were that, or that individual tunes could be extracted from them, so I passed...

[Reeses]

Apple's profit margin is around 50%, Exxon's is 9%. The socialist emperors might redirect their envy temper tantrum.

[Echo Talon]

Ipods will eventually be killed by cell phones, that will do the same thing and more.

[gondramB]

>>Ipods will eventually be killed by cell phones, that will do the same thing and more.<<

As long as the online ITunes store remains strong and there is no way to play the music from on a phne unless its licensed by Apple there will be a stranglehold.

Now me, I refuse to buy encrypted music so my IPOD Nano is just because the sounds is great and the form factor is cool and tiny.

[Echo Talon]

As long as the online ITunes store remains strong and there is no way to play the music from on a phne unless its licensed by Apple there will be a stranglehold.

Some service will come along with a standard that will allow multiple devices to utilize it. I.E. Nextel, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Creative, etc. This will make competition and lower prices.

[Echo Talon]

here

They will have something like this that will play video, music, function as a telephone, camera and get on the Internet.

[gondramB]

>>They will have something like this that will play video, music, function as a telephone, camera and get on the Internet.<<

And while that would be fine for me, it won't play music or video from ITunes... look for the IPhone coming in the not too distant future.

[Echo Talon]

why do you have to use Itunes?

[gondramB]

>>why do you have to use Itunes?<<

I choose not to use ITunes but they are the leading online music source and the only online place to get things like Beatles songs and Disney owned Video so they are a force in the market.

[Echo Talon]

Sony or someone will proabbly make an iTunes alternative.