“Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster says that the latest NPD data suggests the company will sell 9.7 million to 10.5 million iPods in the March quarter,” Eric Savitz blogs for Fortune.
“That is higher than his estimate a month ago of 9.5 million to 10.3 million, although Munster says the new range is below the Street consensus of 10.8 million, and his own current estimate of 11.3 million,” Savitz reports.
“Munster maintains his Buy rating and $250 price target on the stock,” Savitz reports.
Full article here.
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.
@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?
@ 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.