Linked List: February 3, 2006

Friday, 3 February 2006

The iPod Ecosystem ★: Damon Darlin, reporting for The New York Times, pegs the iPod accessory market at $1 billion per year:

Not when making add-ons for the iPod is a $1 billion business. Does that sound like hyperbole? Consider this. Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory, estimates Steve Baker, an analyst for the NPD Group, a research firm. That works out to three or four additional purchases per iPod.
Matt Neuburg Reviews Yojimbo ★: Matt Neuburg:

Bare Bones’s Yojimbo Web page asserts that the program has “no learning curve”; and this, allowing for the usual pedantic disagreements over what the phrase “learning curve” means, is absolutely true. Download it and run it; in less than a minute, you will know exactly how to put data into it and find what you’ve put in.
17-inch iMac G5 No Longer Available From Apple.com ★: And 20-inchers have been marked down to $1499, $200 off.