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Apple Q1 2012: 37m iPhones, 15.4m iPads, 15.4m iPods

Tim Cook said that they sold 62 million “iOS devices” during the quarter.  If you assume that Apple TVs are not included here (I assume they aren’t), then 62M = 37.04 M iPhones + 15.43 M iPads + 9.5 Million iPod Touches.  Since they sold 15.4 Million iPods, the iPod Touches represent 62% of the iPods sold.

So there were 5.9 Million non-Touch iPods sold.  Currently that lineup includes the $49 Shuffle, the $129 Nano, and the $249 Classic.  Based on price, you’d expect the Classic to be the least popular. 

On Amazon though, the Shuffle is #6 in MP3 Players, the Nano is #7, and amazingly the Classic is #5.  How odd.

Before I looked that up I’d have expected that with the launch of iCloud Apple would probably kill the Classic off this year.  Yes I know iCloud isn’t enough for some people, but Apple is not known for keeping small percentage products around.  They like to make fewer things and make them well.  Even if killing off stuff makes some people unhappy.

I guess I still think that, but I’m surprised by the sales ranking…

Posted by Fanfoot on January 26, 2012 at 1:29 PM (PDT)

Apple Q1 2012: 37m iPhones, 15.4m iPads, 15.4m iPods

@2: Not many

They do specify that more than half were touches somewhere else, exactly how many more than half is the question I’d like to know. I see lots of touches and iPhones and iPads when I’m out and about. I haven’t seen a classic in over three years, and I’ve never seen a 6G nano either. I’m sure these things sell, certainly enough that Apple hasn’t dropped them altogether, but it’s really not niche they’re concerned about and nor should they be as much as their fans would like.

Think about it: they did NOTHING for the non-iPhone/iPad world and still outsold the entirety of every other tech maker out there 2:1 in non-phone/non-tablet “mp3 players”. And that is with actual competition in most of the niche gadget categories (even the touch has the very competent Galaxy Player). They have had no competition whatsoever for the classic for years. Whatever it sold, they can’t have much reason to update until whatever changes would have to be made to the motherboard & chassis along with firmware re-writes are substantially offset by expected sales increases, and I’m not even sure that’s possible for something that applies to such a small niche of consumers. It’s entirely possible that it’s profitable to continue making them as is, but the cost of improving it is too high for the sales volume.

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on January 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM (PDT)

Apple Q1 2012: 37m iPhones, 15.4m iPads, 15.4m iPods

I wonder how many of the iPod’s were the iPod Classic with the hard drive? I know people keep saying there’s no longer a need for the Classic now that there’s the iPhone and iPod Touch, but as someone who has an extensive music collection (legally acquired BTW) that still won’t fit on my 160GB model, I know I’ve been eagerly waiting a bump in capacity for years so I can access all my music, regardless of where I am (and the Cloud isn’t the answer until there are no caps on streaming from the wireless, cable, and FIOS - and Apple’s iCloud feature is useless for people with collections greater than 25GB.). I use my iPhone 4 as a miniature tablet, camera/video recorder, and communications device but not as a music device. So, as long as old folks like me are still around, I think the iPod still has a long life ahead of it.

Posted by Michael Bevel on January 26, 2012 at 6:34 AM (PDT)

Steve Jobs biography leaks, quotes appear online [Updated]

hes a loser

Posted by What on January 25, 2012 at 2:43 PM (PDT)

Apple Q1 2012: 37m iPhones, 15.4m iPads, 15.4m iPods

Considering there wasn’t one new iPod model this year, the fact there was only a 20% decrease in sales over the previous year is pretty impressive.

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on January 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM (PDT)

Apple hires Sony Ericsson exec to head Latin America

It’s finally a prove that Mr. Tim Cook is there because he deserve, afterall, and that he is it’s eyes VERY opned. We will see, I can bet, during 2012, the REAL thing about so called “brazilian taxes” on iPhone final price going to the trash. 100% of my best wishes goes to Mr. Teixeira, be VERY welcome… and to it’s ex… R.I.P.

Posted by Pedro Gama on January 24, 2012 at 9:50 AM (PDT)

Netflix streaming issues persist on Apple TV

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Posted by Drew Marino on January 22, 2012 at 4:28 AM (PDT)

Apple forcing removal of 'free memory' app features

Hi Charles,

For many years I’ve mainly stayed with MsDOS systems although not long ago a friend gave me an iPhone 4s.  Being a developer I was interested in writing an app when there is time.  Please note that I’ve been a Federal Whistle Blower since 1998. My time to surface in the Public hasn’t come yet. 

While using my Iphone like many others I eventually encountered many problems. Researching it become necessary to want to wipe the memory clean but after searching it became clear there wasn’t any REAL method to do so.  Frankly after reading your article it now seems this important function was removed and the community of users don’t know why.

Apple much like MS are involved with snooping on users.  Our country is embeded in a WH Coup linked to a World Wide Coup of sorts understood to be the New World Order.  At the time of this writing, this information shouldn’t be unknown!  Back when you wrote your article for you it may have been.  For me, it’s been known since the 90’s. 

I’m disappointed with my phone lacking a tgrue memory wipe funciton.  I more than suspect Applle has enough hooks within their OS to keep what ever snooping data from being disturbed.  All of this for me started when surprisingly my phone started showing serious data communications for no reason.  The only reason would be that the phone is being used as a wireless snooping device.

You’re welcome to write back to me with any questions you may have.

Federal Whistle Blower since 1998
Marty Didier

Posted by Marty Didier on January 21, 2012 at 5:12 PM (PDT)

Netflix streaming issues persist on Apple TV

I live in Canada. I have had an ATV2 for just over a year now, and it’s been awesome.  No issues at all.  Then on Jan 14 2012 it’s all gone down hill with netflix.  Can watch about 30s - 5min and it needs to buffer.  then again same thing.  Have tried rebooting, and all the tricks that have been mentioned on various websites, nothing.  Been on the phone with netflix.  They were saying it’s my isp.  Even after explaining it streams fine through wifi on my laptop and bluray player and that the ATV2 is wired not wifi.  Can watch HD vimeo and youtube without an issue.  And anything I rent from itunes is not an issue.

someone needs to own up here..

Posted by Kris on January 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM (PDT)

Singaporean carrier offers iPhone 4/4S models without cameras

A lot of US customers would benefit from this as well. Not just those in military service, but also military and other government contractors, whose employers and/or work sites strictly forbid possession of any form of photography equipment (cameras in phones included).

Posted by Farnsworth on January 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM (PDT)

iBooks Author EULA draws criticism

Query whether an ap is “free” if it has the conditions on use indicated by the licensing agreement.

Hope others know to go to the “app’s page” in the App Store prior to downloading the ap.

Posted by GG on January 20, 2012 at 9:22 AM (PDT)

iBooks Author EULA draws criticism

#1, Good point.

This is a non-issue.  If you don’t like the EULA of Apple’s (or any company’s) free software, don’t use it.  I can see complaining if one shelled out money to purchase a software license, but in this case one can simply walk away and make epub files with other software choices.

Posted by DP on January 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM (PDT)

iBooks Author EULA draws criticism

“Wineman argues, however, that Apple did not give him a chance to agree to the terms prior to installing the software”

The he should stop writing immediately and get an eye examination.  The licensing terms are available on the app’s page in the App Store.  I read them, and it clearly states what he claims it didn’t tell him in advance of installation.

Posted by Fred on January 20, 2012 at 3:01 AM (PDT)

Netflix streaming issues persist on Apple TV

ATV2 is unreliable and frustrating for streaming Netflix.  On a wired network with average download of 20MBper sec . it just stops playing. Switch to a different device,  LG BD 390, Macbook Pro, iPad . . . they all stream the same content fine. I’m to blame because I miss the the obvious conflict of interist of who gets the $ for streaming content, the Apple Store or Netflix. When your stuck on the side of the road, do you blame bosh for the bad fuel injector or the carcmanufacturer for using it and selling you a car that doesn’t work?

Posted by John on January 19, 2012 at 9:55 PM (PDT)

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 enables e-mail based FaceTime calls

my ipod will not let me face time with anyone

Posted by meagan back on January 18, 2012 at 3:32 PM (PDT)

Nielsen: iPhone 4S helps to close sales gap with Android

I switched from a Droid X2 to the 4s on Verizon. I think there are several reasons for the change in momentum:
- Many Verizon customers were smart enough to not buy the 4 in April but instead wait for a new iPhone
- Sprint
- Switchers (like me) from Android. I have used Android since the first Droid came out. While the specs have gotten better, Android phones have gotten buggier and (at least for Motorola) have worse displays. The new phones are also very buggy and unstable.
- iOS 5 with dual core in the 4S. I did not like iOS compared to Android until I could task-swap quickly and have good notifications. The 4s has killer hardware that beats just about every Android phone in responsiveness, stability, usability, quality, and the camera.

Posted by John C on January 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM (PDT)

Nielsen: iPhone 4S helps to close sales gap with Android

I doubt that it’s the iPhone 4S per se that’s responsible, more like the new “free with contract” price for the iPhone 3GS. Although it makes little objective sense since the $99 the 3GS cost before the 4S was announced amounted to only about 5% of the total ownership costs, data phone users have proven remarkably math adverse. Now that the major brand is free as well, the trend seems to be that iOS could even start outselling Android again this year; interesting.

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on January 18, 2012 at 8:23 AM (PDT)

iPad 3 announcement coming in early February?

@2: Ixnay to both those points.

1. Apple knows something you seem to be unaware of: their products sell even when “everyone” knows something new is coming out. Strange as this may seem to you, turns out most people don’t follow tech pages or even general news. I’ve been here for nearly 8 years, and Apple has been pretty predictable over those 8 years, yet I can’t tell you how many posts I’ve read from people who finally did find their way here only to complain they’d bought an Apple product for full price just a week or two (sometimes just a day) before the new model came out even though no regular would have purchased the then current product for anything other than emergency purposes for the previous 8 weeks. Everyone who knows the deal already knew there would be a new iPad this spring, so they aren’t buying announcement or not, and the rest of the people, well, they probably won’t notice such an announcement if it should come to pass.

2. Apple is not going to stop updating the iPad annually any time soon. The product is facing plenty of impending threat. Apple is updating their tablet products annually; collectively, their competition is updating every couple of months and, yes, most of those are either woefully behind the curve or fail for other reasons, but don’t assume everybody is ready to sign onto the fruit bandwagon. Samsung, in particular, is hot on Apple’s heels and the more distance Apple can keep between themselves and the competition the better, and the rumored 2048x1536 resolution would be just the thing to do that.

Posted by Code Monkey in Midstate New York on January 18, 2012 at 5:53 AM (PDT)

iPad 3 announcement coming in early February?

If this is true it would indicate a price drop on the iPad2 - otherwise Apple is killing its sales for a whole month (which seems unlikely).
I’m also dubious that Apple would introduce a new iPad when the current model is still selling well and seems to be facing no impending threat from other manufacturers.

Posted by Jon Myles on January 18, 2012 at 3:17 AM (PDT)

iPod nano 6G announced with Multi-Touch interface

do i need any additional items for my nano 6 to make the running component work?

Posted by eric on January 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM (PDT)

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IDG: iPad replacing laptop for over 10% of business users

This is a definite proof that 10% of all business users don’t actually do any work!

Posted by Frank J on January 17, 2012 at 2:20 PM (PDT)

iPad 3 announcement coming in early February?

A February announcement would be great, but it seems rather dubious that Apple would allow for a month-long lag on a product that from what everyone can gather is physically similar to the existing iPad 2.

I am not sure why Apple wouldn’t want to hold to the announcement to a similar pattern as last year.

In addition, Macotakara’s track record isn’t exactly the most accurate.

Posted by cxc273 on January 17, 2012 at 1:06 PM (PDT)

Netflix app updated with iPhone, iPod touch support

when I updated to version 2.02 for my ipod touch I lost the ability to use my account simultaneously on other devices.  My family is very upset as they were enjoying the flexibility of allowing each of us to watch what they want.  Looks like its on to Hulu for us.  Pretty sneaky on Netflix’s part.

Posted by joe in nY on January 17, 2012 at 4:23 AM (PDT)

CES iLounge Pavilion Day 4: Accessory Highlights for Kids

“More images and details are below.”

Where?

Posted by Norm on January 17, 2012 at 3:54 AM (PDT)