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Re:iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million by bornhuetter on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:46AM (#4564613)
They didn't sell many iPods before iTunes came out. I think it's true that what drove the large numbers of iPod sales was probably iTunes, and the ability to legally download mp3s.

See iPod sales chart:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Ipod_sale...

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Re:iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million by josephlord on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:39AM (#4564882)
As someone else mentions Windows support was a big factor.

Pricing also was an issue, they were very expensive.

Another factor is that the market was smaller, Apple dominated the market very quickly (at least if you count the market as large capacity devices until they had the shuffle).

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Re:iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million by bryanlarsen on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:15AM (#4564762)
They also didn't sell many iPods before they added full support for Windows and for USB. I suspect that was a bigger driver of initial iPod sales than the iTunes music store.

The iTunes Music Store was probably a big reason why people upgraded to new iPods, though.

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