Comments on: 100M iPods and Counting…. http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/04/09/100m-ipods-and-counting/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jim Courtney http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/04/09/100m-ipods-and-counting/#comment-5034 Jim Courtney Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:42:03 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/04/09/100m-ipods-and-counting/#comment-5034 The secret sauce for iPod is not simply the hardware but the entire iTunes support network behind it. None of the others mentioned above are offering content along with the hardware. I have the Nokia N90 -- supposedly with the same hardware as the iPod Nano, yet Nokia has yet to deliver on the <a href="http://www.nokia.com/A4136002?newsid=1081455" rel="nofollow">Loudeye acquisition</a> last October supposedly to provide content for N-series phones. It's the total user experience, including the hardware's user interface, that sums up iPod's success. The secret sauce for iPod is not simply the hardware but the entire iTunes support network behind it. None of the others mentioned above are offering content along with the hardware. I have the Nokia N90 — supposedly with the same hardware as the iPod Nano, yet Nokia has yet to deliver on the Loudeye acquisition last October supposedly to provide content for N-series phones.

It’s the total user experience, including the hardware’s user interface, that sums up iPod’s success.

]]> By: Gayla McCord http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/04/09/100m-ipods-and-counting/#comment-5030 Gayla McCord Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:25:24 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/04/09/100m-ipods-and-counting/#comment-5030 Make that 100 million and 1. All four of my teens have one now. The youngest wanted an MP3, but I thought it might be better in the long run for them all to have the same thing. More interchangeable that way. At least that's my whole thought process. Just kind of stinks that by the time the youngest of the four got his, the other three were not excited for him at all. Now we have to start something cool in reverse order. Any ideas? :) Make that 100 million and 1. All four of my teens have one now. The youngest wanted an MP3, but I thought it might be better in the long run for them all to have the same thing. More interchangeable that way. At least that’s my whole thought process.

Just kind of stinks that by the time the youngest of the four got his, the other three were not excited for him at all. Now we have to start something cool in reverse order. Any ideas? :)

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