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iPod's Success Provides a Boon to Ancillary Businesses

Monday, January 30th, 2006 at 2:55 PM - by Staff

With over 40 million iPods sold since the MP3 player's introduction in late 2001, the product's success has provided a boost to start-up and existing businesses alike. Writing for the Burlington Free Press, Dan McLean profiled that phenomenon in Vermont, explaining how a local college freshman started a company that sells 11 iPod accessories and an older entrepreneur opened a business that converts CDs, LPs and cassette tapes to digital format.

In addition, Apple computer specialist Small Dog Electronics has opened a web site exclusively devoted to selling iPods and accessories, according to Mr. McLean. And Macworld UK on Monday reported on a story in The Scotsman about Wolfson, a Scottish firm that has seen a boom in revenue thanks to the use of its chips in Apple's iPod, Sony's PSP and other consumer electronics.

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