Thread: The Register's take on Kindle Sales
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Old 08-26-2008, 02:54 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Tom90deg View Post
*Taps lectern* Ok, now everyone, today is a quick lesson. Repeat after me. "Just because we don't sell 1 million units in the first day does not mean we are a failure." Thank you!

The iPod has messed up people's thoughts on how tech gets sold...if it doesn't sell a million in a month, toss it out, it's a failure. How many units did the iPod sell initially? anyone know?
The iPod didn't sell a million in the first month; nor in the first year. It came out at about the same price, sold about the same number of units and had many of the same DRM problems as the Kindle. At the time, it faced a lot of competition from non-apple-itunes-store handicapped MP3 players. Sure, it also played non-drm MP3's (but then again, so does the Kindle - along with letting you read several non-DRM ebook formats that you can load via USB).

The iPhone no doubt has set an outrageously high expectation of initial sales - but it's also a several generation in iPod, in many respects, not a "new" genera of tech.
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