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Apple sells 100 million iPods
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icruise
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Apr 9, 2007, 04:29 PM
 
Back in 2003, I posted this thread in which I looked back at the launch of the iPod two years earlier. Back then, the iPod had apparently just sold 1 million units, and I was sort of gloating about how wrong some people's original reactions to the device were. And now, almost 4 years later, they've reached 100 million. That's pretty amazing. I bought an iPod shortly after they came out, but even I had no earthly idea that it would become such a success, changing both Apple and the entire music industry. I just thought now would be a good time to think back over the last 6 years and consider how the iPod has changed things.

By the way, this article on MSNBC.com reads like an Apple ad.
     
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Apr 9, 2007, 04:41 PM
 
The iPod saved my marriage.
     
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Apr 9, 2007, 10:18 PM
 
i had a bet with a friend back in january when they would and i said in the first week of april and that is what i thought that they were going to announce with EMI (like to announce our 100 millionth iPod we will be selling DRM free music that is what i thought when i read about it that sunday) and i called my friend and was telling him how i won the bet the next day he called me and made fun of me but its all kool i was VERY close! if not right
     
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Apr 9, 2007, 10:57 PM
 
bought time!! I've bought like 9 of them so I feel we all could've done our fair share and stepped up to help them meet their goal.

     
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Apr 10, 2007, 10:49 AM
 
I knew it would be a success, but had no idea it would be the icon it has become. It's really reshaped Apple and brought them back into the limelight.
     
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Apr 13, 2007, 11:17 AM
 
iPod brought me back into music. Along with iTunes, iPod prompted me to start looking for new artists and hunting down old songs I hadn't heard in forever. The incredible ease of use that Apple brings to the table made it fun to shop for and listen to music again.

I was so tired of the attitude in record shops, of listening to hours of worthless radio crap to hear maybe a song or two I liked, and having to buy a whole CD when all I wanted was a song or two (I had grown up with singles, after all).

99 cents a song wrapped in a sleek, easy-to-use player, brought me back.
     
   
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