Apple's $7 Billion Christmas to be Paced by iPod Sales

Prediction that Apple's sales this quarter will break $7 billionwhile selling 20 million iPods.

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Disney sells 500,000 movies through iTunes

Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it has sold nearly a half million films through Apple Computer's iTunes store since announcing the distribution deal a little less than two months ago. Most likely because of this Fox is in discussions with Apple over putting their movies on iTunes.

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More questions surface about Zune/iPod survey

Apparently there are many people questioning the validity of the survey that claims that 58% of iPod owners would buy a Zune.

"The specific mention of an iPod is not in the language. Tell you what, show me a picture of a Zune next to a turd and I'll be 100% likely to indicate a Zune preference, but it doesn't mean I'm going to buy one."

Apple seeing incredible interest in new 2G shuffle

Even though there are reports on the web that its possible to bend the clip, Apple is seeing "tremendous" interest in its iPod Shuffle. Analysts are expecting that Apple might be able to sell 20m iPods this Christmas season because of the new Shuffle.

MS survey shows people might buy a brown Zune

MS survey finds that after people are shown Zune images and marketing material they might be willing to buy a Zune. Said another way, even when giving the best marketing material they could find 40% of people surveyed would still buy a player other than the Zune.

Microsoft to shut down MSN Music this month

Microsoft is about to shut down its MSN Music Store and redirect customers to the new Zune Marketplace. Microsoft has let down all the hardware vendors that support Microsoft's Plays For Sure as media from the Marketplace will only play on 1 device: the Zune.

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Apple iPhone rumor roundup

From the rumors that have been mentioned of the Apple iPhone, about its front face lighting up when you touch it, it seems like Apple will be implementing the technology shown in Nokia's prototype cell phone. Benq seems to have made a Black Box concept based on the same technology. With the talk recently of Apple patenting touch sensitive bezels it will be interesting to see what parts of the Apple iPhone will be touch sensitive.

While everyone seems to be discussing the iPhone in singular, there are rumors that there will be two phones. If this is true, then it lends more credence to the idea that Apple will become a cell phone service provider. This is because if they are launching a new service they will want to have more than one model to sell to people. The rumors are that one phone will resemble an iPod nano and the other will include a keyboard and be more of a smartphone.

2nd Gen iPod Shuffle seen as 'Dark Horse'; may become Best Selling iPod

Wu's sources also indicate that the new entry-level $79 iPod shuffle has received 'very strong' orders from Apple direct customers as well as third-party retailers such as Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA. "We continue to believe this dark horse could end up being the top selling iPod and gain significant share against flash competitors," he said

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