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Hmmm...higher than expected, but lower than predicted. This leaves the both the bears and bulls happy and pissed off at the same time.

The iPod is "up" in more than one sense of the word.

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-123/hires/iss016e032312.jpg

Mar 17, 08 - 11:57 pm Comment from: qka

@Gilles

Thanks for that! If you didn't see it, there is an iPod (larger, hard disk model) on the "dashboard" in one of the windows to the left side.

iPods have been on a number of Shuttle flights.

Do they still sell the Zune?

Mar 18, 08 - 08:38 am Comment from: Jay-Z

@ Road Warrior:

If they stopped selling it, would anybody notice?

I just got a red 2 gig shuffle with my name on it all the way from Suzhou to Anchorage to Memphis to Mississaugua to Ottawa for C$75 (Apple converts its US$69 price by adding 10% to penalize Canadians, probably for the benefit of the relatively high cost Canadian retail distribution chain). This is a whopping improvement over the 1 gig version (C$55, US$49), so people like me who like the shuffle for its clip on capability will simply buy another one. Even if one already has nanos and classics, the shuffle beats them all for mobility as a music device. The unit sales for iPods have only one direction to go: up. The 2 gig shuffle will sell like hotcakes and will help raise Apple's unit market share. If one becomes a shuffle owner, it's likely a convert is made to the whole iPod line.