IPod Christmas sales remains hot Microsoft said not discouraged

Christmas has always been the best time to foreign shopping, iPod is a lot of people for yourself or for friends and relatives matching Christmas gift. However, Apple on the one hand, to be proud of their sales, on the other hand, it had to worry about for iTunes.

We got the iPod after first thing of course is to go to iTunes to download music, in this case, iTunes is the user's "warm" almost brought down the Detroit News reported that iTunes store delays up to 20 minutes.

The Macworld Magazine's editor Dan Frakes said this sort of thing generally busy shopping holidays are common, he suggested that iPod users do not feel so impatient, and so few point to go and download music. The "year of 364 days, iTunes is good. However, on this day, all the Apple online store, "he said," it's a good idea to listen to your favorite CD, download boom subsides to purchase music. ”

In addition to the iPod and Canon Powershot Digital Elph digital camera, Garmin GPS navigation system tied for the most hot-selling consumer electronics products, black and white 13.3 inch MacBook notebook with Sony VAIO notebook 15.4 '' together become the most popular PC products.

While Zune only listing on 14 November the first week after yielded remarkable results. According to market research agencies, NPD statistics listing header 4 days, once the Zune portable media player sales of 9 percent and 13 percent of revenue. At that time, the Zune in the second market, is higher than SanDisk but far behind the iPod. IPod was in sales and revenue, accounting for 63 per cent, respectively, and 72.5 per cent.

During the Christmas season, Amazon top 10 best-selling consumer electronics product list has almost no Zune appears. But Microsoft says that Zune sales reached its internal goals. Microsoft said that as the market promotion of increased and process improvements, believe that this player will win the favor of the market.

Despite this, Microsoft is still very satisfied with that have reached the expected sales targets inside, claiming that as companies continue to increase outreach efforts, and technological enhancements, Zune sales volume will gradually increase over time.

The following are other Amazon holiday shopping: some statistics

• December 11, the busiest day of the order of 400 million;

● In promotions, 29 seconds to sell Xbox 360 1000, 34 seconds to sell 1000 units Axion portable DVD player;

● 2006 most expensive MP3 player: Trekstor i.Beat Organix Gold 1GB to sell $ 19999;

• Top selling game host: NDSL, PS2, Xbox 360;

● The best-selling game of hosts: the new Super Mario Brothers "," brain training "," crazy football law;

• Top selling DVD film: "the Pirates of the Caribbean 2: poly hunguan (two-disc collector's Edition)", "the Pixar cars (Widescreen Edition)", "an inconvenient truth";

● The best-selling songs: Josh Groban's "Awake" and the Beatles "Love", Sarah McLachlan's "Wintersong";

● The best-selling software: "world of Warcraft: the Burning Crusade" (subscription), the Sims 2: pets, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5;

● Best-selling Bluetooth headset: Logitech Mobile Express, Plantronics Voyager 510, Motorola H700.