As Engadget points out, there may have been a spike in January because a whole bunch of people picked up new iPods and iPod gift cards for the holidays in Decemeber. Suffice it to say, if Apple was really the top music retailer in the country right now, they wouldn't be passing around an internal memo. They'd be sending out press releases with pictures of Steve Jobs stepping on a smiley face with blood poring out of its nose. Wait, smiley faces don't usually have noses, do they?
We're fairly certain that digital music will surpass physical media sales one day. That day just doesn't happen to be today.
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4-03-2008 @ 9:51AM
JayMonster said...
Looks to me based on that picture, that somebody is playing a bit of a game.
Top section shows Physical Media to be 70% of sales.
Bottom showing Apple on top of "equivalized sales" is probably their part of "digital sales" only. (Which comes as a suprise to nobody)
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4-03-2008 @ 12:19PM
skim said...
The "#2" announcement in February was based on sales for the year ending December 2007. January 2008 comes AFTER December 2007. I know it can be confusing.
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4-03-2008 @ 12:22PM
Joe said...
Apple's statement in February was based on NPD's data for DECEMBER, meaning that it predates the data from Ars Technica. You might want to fix that.
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