Hey Hey - perhaps only a few of us noticed that while iPod sales are indeed shrinking, Apple’s doing a great job protecting itself from the impact of this through iPhone sales and the extension of the iPod brand into new families of intelligent device, a la iPod touch.
As this graphic shows, iPod sales have been contributing a shrinking amount of revenue to Apple’s general performance, skip past the break to see another graph which shows us in clearer terms the shrinkage of iPod revenues.
These attractive stats come from Philip Elmer-DeWitt over at Fortune. He notes that as recently as 2006, iPod sales a