100 million iPods which is like over 100 billion songs

Caught this little bit of news while killing time at Thunderbird Coffee as my VW Golf continued to spend my money. Pretty hard to believe that so many have been sold in about six years. I remember how skeptical I was too because the first one was a hard drive and the superior, yet very limited MP3 players then were like the Diamond Rio which used RAM (I had one as well). Woo hoo, 64 Megabytes of RAM which could store a WHOLE hour of music versus the first iPod’s 60+ hours (based upon 15 Pop songs/hour). I’m glad I was wrong and RAM prices have dropped to make the current iPods. Lately, I’m on my fourth iPod because I keep selling my used ones to people who can’t afford them new. And I have also bought two for my wife (same reasons). I think I have bought two more as gifts for other people (the Scotts of PVP and Kenny’s fame). So I know I contributed to at least eight to the 100 million mark. I also want to thank the rest of you who bought them as well. I think it’s a pretty cool milestone and an awesome successor to the Sony Walkman I grew up with in the Eighties.