Apple shifts a million iPods a week

Apple shipped over 14 million iPods during the last quarter of 2005

Apple's figures for its most recent quarter have shown that the company sells over a million iPods a week.

Apple shipped 1,254,000 Macintosh computers and 14,043,000 iPods during the last quarter of 2005, representing 20 per cent growth in Macs and 207 per cent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

"We are thrilled to report the best quarter in Apple's history,” said chief executive Steve Jobs.

"Two highlights of an incredible quarter were selling 14 million iPods and getting ready to launch our new Macs with Intel processors five to six months ahead of expectations.

"We are working on more wonderful products for 2006, and I can't wait to see what our customers think of them."

International sales accounted for 40 per cent of the quarter's revenues.