The music comes from a 64GB Apple iPod touch that can store more than 14, 000 songs.
By contrast, Bernstein expects Apple iPod sales will grow just 6% to 22.4 million iPods over the year-ago period.
Which is why the Apple iPod economy will snap the shovel economy forward.
Just imagine if all of the components in the Apple iPod had to be manufactured and assembled in the United States.
The invite-only event, including journalists and industry insiders, will feature a full bar, appetizers and a give-away of five special edition Apple iPod Touches.
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Rip open a Cisco switch, an Apple iPod, an Xbox 360 or any big corporate disk drive and you'll find a Marvell chip inside.
Indeed, the memory in an Apple iPod alone, not long ago worth millions, is today worth a microscopic fraction of what it once was.
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In the end, the most important tools are the ones that you personally use every day--whether it's a mouse, a spatula or an Apple iPod.
By Greider's logic, the Apple iPod is wrecking America's economy.
The device, which is about the size of an Apple iPod Nano or a square-shaped matchbox, can be attached to a strap and worn on the wrist or the upper arm.
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For example, a consumer shopping for an Apple iPod might just be thinking of it as a portable device, not realizing it can also be used with a car stereo or for movies.
The security firm found that the increasing popularity of media players like the Apple iPod and greater use of tiny USB drives, that many people carry on a keychain, is exposing many firms to real security risks.
Today the Apple iPod (pictured left), elegantly designed by Apple's Jonathan Ive, measures only 4.02 x 2.43 x 0.78 inches and weighs in at a mere 6.5 ounces, but it will let you carry up to ten hours of music in your hip pocket.
Following in the footsteps of a groundbreaking and widely-cited 2007 UC-Irvine study, which disaggregated the components of a Chinese-assembled Apple iPod and assigned its constituent value to the companies and countries responsible for their production, two researchers at the Asian Development Bank Institute applied a similar analysis to the Apple iPhone.
While Zune is busy building a service aimed at displacing Apple's iPod, Apple has been using the iPod as a way to suction up users into its iTunes digital media store.
For its part, Eos appears to be overhauling its sales effort. (The company denies this.) One quirky promotion promises a free Apple video iPod for purchasing a round-trip flight by August 31.
The iPad commercial, which made its debut during Sunday's academy awards, shows what users of Apple's iPod Touch have long known: Apple has mastered the art of turning computing into a snackable experience.
Most iPhone owners enjoy ecosystem integration of other Apple devices such as the iPod, Apple TV, and the Mac PC. iCloud allows consumers to seamlessly share media across devices.
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Apple, iPhone and iPod are trademarks of Apple Inc.
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"We believe there is confusing similarity between Apple's IPOD mark and the PROFIT POD mark, " says a recent letter from Apple legal to Mach 5.
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Three people from last year's list missed the cut, including Sim Wong Hoo, whose Creative Technology's iPod-type player lost ground to Apple's popular iPod.
The portable music player market keeps expanding, even as Apple 's iPod increases its dominance.
Gadgets like Apple's iPod can store more movies and music while selling at cheaper prices.
It's a design that probably presages some future version of Apple's iPod digital music player.
In 2005 Apple reinvented the iPod again, introducing the even smaller Shuffle, with flash memory and no screen.
Like Apple's iPod Touch, it draws the line at making phone calls, however.
Nowadays that seems self-evident: Apple's iPod and Motorola's Razr succeed as much for their shape as for their innards.
Apple's iPod, which has been overshadowed by the iPhone and now the iPad.
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