Amazing!
Apple has increased 88% its benefits during the last 3 months. The main reason was that apple sold 10 million of ipods in only 3 months!!!
during the last 5 years more than 100 million of Ipods were sold. This is the typical example how an innovation may impact and changing the behaviour of consumers in a very short period...
It also shows that no business (music cd's etc.) is not forever...companies need to innovate.
What amazes me most is the fact that we made the quantum leap from cassettes to cds in 19 years (1963-1982). Again from CD to IPOD it took us 19 years (1982-2001). Do we wait another 19 years for the next big thing?