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iPod sales take a hit
For the first time since... well... ever, analysts are predicting that iPod sales will down from last year's quarterly numbers.
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster forecast between 9.5 and 10.3 million iPods will be sold over the first three months of 2008. That will mark a six percent decline over the same period in 2007.
This is actually seen as good news, given the dire predictions which were going around. Still, it means that sales of Apple's star attraction may finally be starting to taper off.
You knew it had to happen eventually.
I don't think anyone expected the iPod bonanza to go on forever. There are only so many people who will buy an MP3 player, and you can't keep up record numbers forever.
This isn't great news for Apple, particularly on Wall Street, but let's put it into perspective. The hit which the company will take isn't anything compared to the dark days of the 90's, and there's still very strong Mac and iPhone sales to rely on.
Still, if this means that the iPod is falling back to earth, who will become Apple's new star? Will the iPhone become the big seller, or will a new line of next-gen Macintosh computers follow the MacBook Air and put the "Computer" back into Apple Inc?
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