But NPD's data also show that the legal download services as a whole may have stopped attracting new customers over the past few months. accounted for 6 percent of total iPod sales in the quarter, even though that firm began selling its version of the iPod only in the last third of the quarter.Īpple's iTunes store, meanwhile, holds about 70 percent of the business of selling music files online. Sales of the iPod through Hewlett-Packard Co.

Data from the research firm NPD Group show that Apple's market share in the digital music player market has climbed even as new players have entered the market: Apple's share of the digital music player market went from 79.1 percent in August 2003 to 90.7 percent this August. Sales of its desktop machines were down, largely as a result of a supply problem that pushed the debut of the latest iMac desktop past the back-to-school shopping season, but both its lines of laptops sold better.ĭespite a steady flow of competing online stores and digital music players into the market, Apple's iPod and its iTunes Music Store remain at the top of the heap. The iPod brought in $537 million in revenue for the quarter, compared with $1.2 billion in revenue from desktop and laptop computers such as the iMac and PowerBook.Ĭomputer sales grew about 6 percent for the company over a year earlier Apple sold 836,000 Mac computers in the quarter. Apple reported that it sold more than 2 million iPods for the last quarter - a 500 percent increase over the comparable period in 2003.īut Apple's computers still make up more of the company's bottom line. The iPod continues to get more popular, the company said. In a call with analysts yesterday afternoon, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said revenue - $2.35 billion - was the most Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple had seen for a fourth fiscal quarter in years. The company said booming sales of its digital music player and laptop computers boosted quarterly profit to $106 million, or 26 cents per share, compared with the $44 million, or 12 cents a share, it earned in last year's fourth quarter. reported yesterday that profit in its fourth fiscal quarter jumped 140 percent from the comparable quarter last year. The iPod helped Apple's profit get up and dance.Īpple Computer Inc.

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