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Thursday, June 03, 2004

iPod hasn't paid the piper yet

Australian IT: "By the standards of many other wildly popular consumer technologies, the iPod and iTunes revenue and earnings contributions to Apple have so far been extremely modest, falling far short of the hype. To some sceptical investors, in fact, the Apple of today does not look so different from the Apple of a year or two ago. Sure, the firm booked $US264 million from selling 807,000 iPods in the March quarter, but its real business is still flogging computers. The markets for digital music devices and deliveries remain embryonic and chaotic owing to a lack of standards and ongoing piracy. But if the hopes of Apple investors and enthusiasts are to be realised and the company is to ride digital music and content back to the top of the heap, it is precisely this embryonic, fickle, ever shifting marketplace that Steve Jobs will have to master. So far, the signs are not universally favourable."

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