James Fee
10-11-2004, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a58iozj_2jXM' target='_blank'>http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a58iozj_2jXM</a><br /><br /></div>"<i>After clothes, money and a car, an iPod is what U.S. teenagers want most this holiday season. A survey of 600 high school students by Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster found Apple Computer Inc.'s digital player No. 4 on their wish list. And the iPod wasn't even among the items Munster suggested -- the kids wrote it in. ``It was really surprising,'' said Munster in an interview from his office in Minneapolis. ``They didn't say music player. They said iPod. Teens want to be cool, they want their music, and the iPod is a cool way for them to get their music. Style matters, simplicity matters, experience matters,'' Munster said. "That's what Apple sells, and that's what they're doing different from everyone else.'' </i>"<br /><br />Frankly I'm not surprised. If it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't even know iRiver was selling digital music players. ;)<br /><br />All kidding aside, it is looking like another huge holiday season for the iPod and iTunes.