How much is the iPod line faltering - - or how well is the rest of Apple's line doing in comparison? It turns out that after GAAP accounting is taken out of the equation, the iPod line, which once was Apple's profit leader is now #3 in profitability, beating only Apple's AppleTV line.
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 accounted for 55.5 per cent of