iPod sales expected to skyrocket

Analyst Charles Wolf (Needham & Co.) predicts Apple will sell 13.3 million iPods in 2005, with that figure to jump to 23.5 million in 2006. That's a lot of white headphone-toting individuals waiting to happen!

One of Wolf's more interesting predictions is the expectation that 100 million Windows users will be iPod owners by 2008. He thinks the iPod trend will generate a critical mass that could result in a surge in Mac sales, even if only a nominal fraction of the Windows-iPod converts decide to leave the Dark Side. He also predicts company revenues to climb to $11.7 billion next year.