Apple Inc. stated that it has sold 100 million units of its iPod, with the Cupertino, Calif.-based company declaring the product is “the fastest-selling music player in history.” Since the first iPod was sold in November 2001, the device has become a defining icon in the portable music world and can be seen everywhere.
The iPod has changed the way many music lovers acquire, store and listen to music, the company said. “Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of songs and albums,” musician John Mayer said in an Apple news release.
The iPod has become so popular that it has spawned spinoff industries that make everything from fashionable cases to speaker systems. More than 70 per cent of U.S. 2007 model vehicles have an iPod link, the company said.
The model and colour of number 100,000,000 are unknown, the website ilounge.com said, but “it appears to be in the company’s possession, rather than on a store’s shelves awaiting sale.” Apple kept unit number 10,000,000 as a memento, ilounge said. The iPod sales have been credited with boosting Apple’s profits and stock price.
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