Apple: Good news and bad news
The good news: BusinessWeek says iTunes is the number-two music retailer in the US behind Wal-Mart. (Neither can hold a candle to pirated music, however; more people get their tunes that way than any other, by a huge margin.)
The bad news: Windows Mobile-based phones are outselling iPhones by a huge margin. Microsoft reports 14.3 million phones using Windows Mobile were sold in the past six months, compared to fewer than 4 million iPhones.
And, Engadget says, "it expects to hit 20m WinMo phones sold by June." That’s compared to the 4.5 million Apple expects to sell.
As usual with Apple, though, comparisons aren’t direct because only Apple sells Apple products, whereas (in this case) Windows Mobile is used in handsets from a whole lot of phone manufacturers.
