{"id":504,"date":"2003-12-31T13:17:33","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the-mini-ipod-analysts-speak-up\/"},"modified":"2003-12-31T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2003-12-31T18:17:33","slug":"the-mini-ipod-analysts-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the-mini-ipod-analysts-speak-up\/","title":{"rendered":"the mini ipod analysts speak up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the guys at news.com have a <a href=http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1041_3-5134102.html\">piece<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_mini_ipods_are_coming.html\">mini-ipod rumors<\/a> now.  they give a $121 million revenue figure for the ipod line (which you may contrast to the purely hypothetical <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_metaroj_music_store.html\" class=\"broken_link\">music store<\/a> revenue of somewhere around $20 million).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\">news.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1041_3-5134102.html\">Would $100 iPod compete or cannibalize?<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think Apple currently needs to sell a $100 iPod at risk of cannibalizing sales of existing models and sacrificing gross margins, &#8221; said Tim Deal,  analyst with Technology Business Research in Hampton, N.H. &#8220;Apple already has the market lead, so I don&#8217;t see the need for (the $100 version) when people are buying $299 and $399 models.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>put on your own analyst hat and decide if &#8220;up 9 percent from the prior quarter and 128 percent from a year ago&#8221; doesn&#8217;t suggest that all the musigeeks that want 10,000+ song ipods are already geared up, and it&#8217;s time to expand the market to the rest of the people&#8230; anyway, my cards are already <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/the_mini_ipods_are_coming.html\">on the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>an ipod in every pocket in 2004!<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/episteme.arstechnica.com\/eve\/ubb.x?a=tpc&#038;s=50009562&#038;f=174096756&#038;m=83800776944&#038;r=83800776944\">discussion<\/a> at ars-technica<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the guys at news.com have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}