iPod Shuffle
It's time to talk about the iPod touch
October 13, 2010: 12:02 PM ETThe iPhone without a phone now dominates Apple's aging line of music players
Source: Company reports, Piper Jaffray
Both the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle were, at one time or another, Apple's (AAPL) best-selling MP3 players. But now, according to Steve Jobs' September iPod update, it's the iPod touch -- a considerably more expensive device, and one that generates a lot more revenue for the company.
Which makes it all the more curious that Apple -- which is relatively open about its unit sales (compared with, say, Amazon and its Kindle) -- has never shared its iPod touch numbers with investors. Perhaps next Monday's quarterly earnings report would be a good time to start.
In the meantime, analysts trying to track iPod touch sales have had to back into them using customer surveys, average selling prices and other tricks. In the chart above we've relied on estimates from Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, the only analyst we know who breaks them out.
Most analysts are content to publish overall iPod unit sales. The iPod numbers from the 33 analysts we've polled in advance of Apple's Q4 earnings report range from 8.18 million to 11.3 million, with an average of just under 9.6 million.
Below: Their most recent iPod estimates, alongside their Q3 accuracy ranking as measured on the Deagol scale (see here). We'll find out who was closest after the closing bell on Oct. 18.
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Taking advantage of rapidly falling memory prices -- and offering customers the lowest entry point in the iPod's six year history -- Apple (AAPL) today slashed the price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle from $79 to $49.
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