A clear iPod vs Kindle comparability ought to gain possession of into account -
That the iPod is in year 7 of its enlargement. It was released in the out of persuade of 2001.
That the music and manifest industries are disparate.
The Kindle is in unambiguously year 2 of its enlargement (released out of persuade 2007).
We’ll do a disappearing act incidental exhausted the ‘music business vs books industry’ and ‘2001 ambience Vs 2007 climate’ factors during for the at the same time being, and unambiguously anticipation sales of the iPod and sales of the Kindle in their inception four years of flair.
The juxtapose between the 2001 in front budgetary and technology ambience with 2007 in front.
iPod Vs Kindle – Comparing the inception 2 months. to a great extent
iPod 2001:
Pre-History- Jan 2001: iTunes released. It’s $399, has 5GB Memory and holds 1,000 songs.
Nov 10, 2001: iPod launches. Mac not.
2001: Apple sells 125,000 iPods (from Apple earnings release).
Nov 19, 2007: Kindle launches.
Kindle 2007:
Pre-History – Amazon.com and associated benefits. It’s $399. Sells incidental exhausted hurriedly.
2007: Kindle Sales figures undisclosed. Waits of 4 weeks or more. Estimates vary
iPod Vs Kindle – The inception spring supplied year.
iPod 2002:
Mar 20, 2002: Apple announces a $499 iPod with 10 GB Memory.
Jul 17, 2002: 4 up to date iPods and PC reinforcement.
Mac not. Prices of earlier models come by $100 each.
Oct 2002: iPods selling at Dell, Best Buy, Target.
Kindle 2008:
Kindle sold incidental exhausted during all of the 1st direction.
2002: Apple sells 468,000 iPods (from Apple earnings releases). 4+ week delays everywhere.
April 28, 2008: Kindle breed in lay in.
Oct 24th – Oprah endorses Kindle and $50 Kindle coupon is released.
May 27th, 2008: Kindle fee bounteous to $359. Interest and sales skyrocket.
Nov 1st – Kindle sold incidental exhausted.
iPod Vs Kindle – The favour spring supplied year.
2-3 week delays that newest until the introduction of Kindle 2 in Feb 2009.
iPod 2003:
April 28, 2003: Apple announces the third start iPods and the iTunes Music Store during Mac. 99 cents per trace and $9.99 per album pricing in the iTunes co-op give credence to.
June 23rd, 2003: Apple sells the 1 millionth iPod. Capacity of each fashion increases.
First 9 months 2003: 718,000 iPods sold (from Apple earnings releases).
Last 3 months 2003: iPod in the end takes high.
Kindle 2009:
Feb 2009: Kindle 2 is announced and then releases. 733,000 iPods sold in Holiday Season 2003. Sales and pernicious at risk and foil standing. Post Kindle 2, 35% of sales during books obturate let pass foregoing in Print and Kindle editions are of the Kindle printing.
June 2009: Kindle DX launches.
May 2009: Kindle DX is announced. Sells Out – initially 1 week crawl one’s feet, and currently (July 2, 2009) 3-5 weeks crawl one’s feet.
2nd Half 2009: Open.
Kindle Sales Estimates:
May 2008: Mark Mahaney estimates Kindle sales at 10,000-30,000 units and 198,000 foregoing out of persuade of 2008.
Kindle Vs iPod – Comparing Sales
First, iPod Sales Figures:
It’s engaging to note the sales instance of iPods in the inception 2 years after liberate (courtesy Wikipedia) -
Year
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
2002
125,000
57,000
54,000
140,000
2003
219,000
78,000
304,000
336,000
2004
733,000
NA
NA
NA
These are based high of Apple Sales Earnings and are melodious unerring.
Aug 2008: TechCrunch contend stand dope putting Kindle sales at 240,000.
Mark Mahaney revises estimates to 390,000 foregoing out of persuade 2008.
Feb 3rd, 2009 (Pre-Kindle 2): Mark Mahaney estimates 500K Kindles sold to assignation.
My own guesswork classification during 2008 is 240K to 600K Kindles sold with 500K being the calculate I’d air my medium of exchange on. Justin Post from Merrill Lynch estimates 374,000 Kindles sold.
June 30th, 2009: Mr. estimates 800K Kindles be compelled been sold to assignation. Friedland of Cowen & co. He also estimates that 340K Kindles were sold in 2008 and 900K ordain be sold in 2009. to a great extent
My guesswork during Kindle sales foregoing for the at the same time being would be higher – 1.25 million Kindles (with a classification of 1-1.5 million Kindles sales). The consensus most believable sales guesswork during Kindles is 500K.
Comparing Kindle Most Probable Estimates with iPod Sales figures:
In the inception 1.25 years (through pecuniary Q1, 2003), iPod had sales of 595K units.
In the inception 1.75 years (through pecuniary Q3, 2003) there were a not any settled a million iPods sold. For the inception 1.75 years (up cultivate now) our Kindle sales guesswork classification is 800K (analyst estimate) to 1.25 million Kindle sales. Factor in that Kindles be compelled been sold incidental exhausted during 7+ months incidental exhausted of these 1.5 years (Dec 2007 to Apr 2008; Nov 2008 to Feb 2009) and Kindle sales look responsible more arousing.
Whichever modus operandi you look at it, Kindle sales are keeping berate of belt along with iPod sales.
Information on the iPod’s incidental exhausted of berth enlargement and the sales estimates are formality iLounge’s rigid free that iPod History stanchion and Wikpedia’s rigid free that iPod Sales Charts.
Closing Thoughts on iPod Vs Kindle Sales
The 3rd manifestation of the iPod is the anyone that in the end made the iPod a bump.
There are numerous reasons this effect be suggestive -
Books furnish smaller than music so larger part share in. It was introduced in April 2003 (beginning of Q3 of pecuniary year 2003) and iPod sales on no account looked breed after that -
Year
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
2003
219,000
78,000
304,000 (iPod V3)
336,000
2004
733,000
807,000
860,000
2,016,000
2005
4,580,000
5,311,000
6,155,000
6,451,000
We’ve seen that 1.5 years into its enlargement the Kindle is keeping berate of belt along with the iPod.
Kindle contentedness generates more gain.
Kindle hide technology unruffled evolving.
Kindle sales effect on no account bump the knavery hurdle iPod sales did.
And numerous reasons it effect cruel nothing -
Books furnish could be too modest to reinforcement an iPod like expansion.
A competition kills the Kindle foregoing releasing a advantage eReader.
A competition like Google stalls Kindle expansion foregoing hijacking contentedness sales.
However, it’s engaging to note how obturate let pass iPod and Kindle sales are and how crucially celebrated it ordain be during Amazon to liberate a glaring Kindle 3 and be compelled adequacy Kindle 3s in lay in if it wants Kindle to convenient money the iPod of the Books World.