Apple sold 300 million iPods during 10 years

PanARMENIAN.Net - It is already 10 years since the iPod launched and during that period it become the number one selling music device in the world, according to comments made by Tim Cook at Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event.

He mentioned that market share in the U.S. has been over 70% “for a very long time”, during the course of which 300 million iPods were sold around the world.

Cook gave a little perspective to the numbers by adding that it took Sony 30 years to sell less than 250,000 Walkman cassette players. Of the 300 million iPods sold since the product’s birth, 45 million of them were sold in the last year between July 2010 to June 2011, TechCrunch reported.

On October 4, Apple announced it new iPhone 4S, new iOS5 and also new versions of iPod Nano and iPod touch. Both iPods now run on iOS 5 and are cheap to buy in the US.