Apple CFO: iPod prices to decline

Apple said yesterday that the average selling price of iPods will likely decline in the current quarter. “We expect them to be down a little bit in the June quarter,” Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said during the company’s second quarter earnings conference call. This suggests that Apple expects to sell more lower-priced iPods, such as the 1GB iPod nano and iPod shuffle, and that a new high-end video iPod will either not be introduced during the quarter, or not significantly offset sales of lower-end models.