Apple’s iPod, iTunes ‘big in Japan’
November 21, 2005
In Japan, iPod has 60% of the digital player market, and iTunes is the top online music service.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/16/apple_ipod_japan/
Apple to launch video iPod?
October 6, 2005
Announcements have gone out for an October 12 meeting, with the name “One more thing…â€, traditionally the phrase that Steve Jobs uses at the end of a meeting to drop a bombshell launch of a new product. It’s believed to be a 60GB iPod with a nan-sized click-wheel, presumably to allow room for a bigger color screen.
From http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1304 and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/apple_video_ipod_launch/
Apple #1 on Wired’s Top 40 Innovators list
October 6, 2005
Wired have released their Top 40 list of technology and innovation masters, listing Apple #1 for “consistently delivering quality and flair”, citing the sale of 8.2 million iPods in 2004, and iTunes taking 70% of legal music downloads. Others on the list include Google, Amazon.com and Vodafone. Microsoft does come in, at 28. See http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/wired40.html for the complete list.

