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IPod Touch Was This Year's Favorite Stocking Filler
Wired: Gadget Lab — What did you get for {insert holiday here]? Very probably it was an iPod Touch. The graph above, from Market Share, shows the iPod Touch's browser usage over the week including Christmas Day, where there is a sharp bump. We've long had a feeling that Mobile OS X – the OS run by the iPhone and the iPod Touch – was the next big thing not just for Apple but for computing in general, and this seems to prove it. Of course, once you get your new toy hooked up to the web, what do you do? Start buying things, that's what. After all, Christmas is the season of shopping. The numbers show that there was also a sharp ...

News: iPod touch drives holiday app sales, traffic
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — Strong holiday sales of the iPod touch drove growth in App sales and web traffic on Christmas day, according to a new report. Mac Rumors, citing information from several developers, reports that sales of both Top 100 and other titles were boosted by 3x-4x on Christmas day, attributing the growth to the iPod touch based on Amazon.com’s sales reports and rankings, which show the iPod touch atop the MP3 Player category and the 8GB model among the site’s strongest-selling holiday electronics items. In addition, Net Applications’ browser marketshare graphs also show a strong spike around the holiday, with the iPod touch’s marketshare ...

Huge iPod Touch Sales Over Christmas Brings App Store Surge
Touch Arcade — As MacRumors reports, it appears that Apple’s high-end iPod, the iPod touch, has experienced a huge gain in marketshare this holiday season, based on sales numbers seen in the iTunes App Store. Heading into Christmas day, the #1 ranked application in the App Store was the $0.99 iFart Mobile, selling around 13,000 units per day.  On Christmas day sales of this app jumped to nearly 39,000 units.  But it wasn’t just this lovely application that saw a massive jump in sales; a number of developers in our forums reported boosts of 3x-4x across all titles, including those outside the top 100 rankings. Mark ...

Apple iPod Touch A Big Christmas Winner (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... We're not the only ones who saw a big spike in traffic on Christmas Day from iPod touch users: Web metrics service Net Applications says the iPod touch's Web browser market share soared on Christmas day to 0.21%, up fourfold from its mid-December share around 0.05%. It's staying up since then, too -- 0.16% on Dec. 26, 27, and 28. (See chart below, ...