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Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results by archgrove on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:32PM (#2117704)
From the conference call highlights at macrumors.com:

"Music products: 19.45 million iPods. iPod touch sales grew 27% year-over-year. Now over 50% of iPod sales."

Over 50% of 19.45 million must be around 10 million.

Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results by ugh on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @05:36PM (#2117711)
Thanks! I think this is the first time they actually somewhat broke down the iPod numbers which makes sense because it allows them to emphasize the importance of iOS.
Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results by guywithabike on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @10:31PM (#2118452)
Yep - Macworld, in their conference call comments, noted that this is the first time they broke out iPod Touches. And for good reason. What an insane number!
Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results by wofser on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @02:47AM (#2119062)
Does it have to be raw numbers? Could it be that iPod touch sales (money) stands for more than 50% of all iPod sales?

If its true: Who buys all these iPod touch? Where I live (Sweden) iPhones are very common and touch is not. They are not very cheap either.

Re:Apple Reports First Quarter Results by ugh on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @09:52AM (#2119859)
I have an iPod touch (I’m from Germany.) and there are several reasons for that:

1. An iPhone is prohibitively expensive for me. I want my cheap prepaid phone, thank you.

2. iPhones only have up to 32GB of space, I need 64GB.

3. I need some kind of portable music device anyway that can save all my music.

I paid 350€ for it which is certainly relatively cheap, a great price for what it does.