iPod faces fears of market saturation
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Business & money: Figures from Apple suggest that the iPod may be reaching  market saturation
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Sep. 10--Portable music players, such as the Apple range of iPods and the  other MP3 players sold by Philips and Sony are ticking timebombs from a  company security perspective.
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The iPod&#39;s importance to Apple, which has in the past been overshadowed by the likes of Microsoft and Dell in the desktop stakes, cannot be underestimated.
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Retailers expected Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player to be a hot item this holiday season but are still struggling to keep up with demand.
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Only one in five European iPod owners   regularly buys songs online, new research shows, a signal that   the music industry will need to rely more heavily on other ways   to recover revenue lost to piracy and illegal downloading.
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Analyst says model may come out to attract iPod-loving consumers weary of Windows security issues. SAN FRANCISCO  - Apple Computer Inc.
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The music industry has long hoped  mobile phones will help turn around weak music sales, but music  executives privately fear the most obvious contender, the  iPhone, may give too much clout to Apple Inc. , in  shaping the future of the fledgling mobile music market.
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Summer heat turns gadget makers' minds  to winter's chilly days, when shoppers buy millions of iPods  and sleek TVs, but consumers may be lukewarm to this year's  newest crop of gizmos.
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Millions of fans adore Apple&#39;s iPod, the world&#39;s most popular digital music player. Now, Apple has unleashed expensive new iPod models that do more: They can carry pictures with your music.
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The players are all about convenience and size. They are like carrying around hundreds of CDs without the load. The iPod dominates the MP3 scene, but new competitors hope to take a bite out of Apple&#39;s business.
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Apple Computer Inc.  may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors are turning the up the heat in the nascent online music industry.
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While the iPod has largely been responsible for Apple&#39;s recent revival, especially among investors, Forbes believes the company could be worth more if it were to spin-off its iPod and iTunes operations.
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Apple Computer&#39;s stock price hit its highest level in four years, passing the $50 mark. The company recently announced that it shipped more than two million of its wildly popular iPod music
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Shares of Apple Computer Inc.   on Wednesday fell to an eight-month low after a Wall Street  analyst said updated versions of the popular iPod digital music  player may be delayed.
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For the Wall Street Journal, Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry write, &#147;In Monday&#146;s column, we predicted that the combination of the iPod&#146;s popularity and the increasing worry over viruses, security holes and spyware in Windows PCs will lead to the second coming of Apple Computer as a home-computing power. To say that struck a chord would be putting it mildly. Boy, did we ever get mail &#151; including a significant number of people who said that the iPod, Windows security concerns or a combination of the two had made them switch to a Mac or plan to do so.&#148; [Paid WSJ subscription required.] [Dec 23]
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Almost any iPod owner will tell the same   story: they wouldn't swap the iconic device for any   alternative. But the battle is wide open for the hearts -- and   pockets -- of the vast majority who still have no MP3 player.
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A New York Times story published yesterday cited a report from Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, which inferred that since the ratio of iTunes songs sold per iPod sold has been steadily rising, a disconnect could be occurring between the two products in a changing portable media market.