Are there any numbers on how many video-playing iPods have been sold? I
haven't seen any breakdown to date, just total installed base and new
shipments for all iPods.

Kbc,


According to Chief executive Steve Jobs at the Macworld Expo in San
Francisco eight million of the new video iPods launched on October 12
have been sold.
Excerpt:

?Chief executive Steve Jobs told the Macworld Expo in San Francisco
the company sold a record 14 million iPod music players in the fourth
quarter, a leap from 4.5 million in the same period of 2004.

Jobs said that total included eight million of the new video iPods
launched on October 12.?


Source: 
iPod sales go through the roof
The Age: January 11, 2006 
http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/ipod-sales-go-through-the-roof/2006/01/11/1136956233041.html


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Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research in November
estimated  that 3 million iPod video units will be sold for the
quarter ending in December.


Excerpt from The San Jose Mercury News dated November 21, 2005:

?The iPod video ``is doing very well,'' said Shaw Wu, an analyst with
American Technology Research. ``It's doing better than expected.''
Resellers such as Amazon.com have had a hard time keeping enough in
stock, Wu said.
And in a note to investors Wu wrote that the video iPod is
``surprisingly outselling even the very popular iPod nano.''


Wu estimated that for the quarter ending in December, Apple will sell
9.4 million iPods, 5 million iPod nano models and 3 million iPod video
versions. The balance will be the iPod shuffles and the
now-discontinued iPod photo.?

San Jose Mercury News: Nov. 21, 2005
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/13223025.htm


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I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Thank you. Data is helpful, although I noted other sources (WSJ) that
said 8 million figure was for the number of videos downloaded through
iTunes, which wouldn't necessarily be the same as 8 million video
playing iPod units. But it puts my the ballpark, I suppose.
launched on October 12