iPod sales expected to go up and up

If you're already way sick of seeing people wearing those white iPod earbuds everywhere you go, you might not want to leave the house for the next couple of years. An analyst with Needham & Co. is predicting that the number of iPods sold is going to hit 13.3 million next year and then nearly double to 23.5 million in 2006 (sales are soaring right now, but remember that Apple only sold a total of two million iPods the first two years or so it was around). And this is despite Creative's "declaration of war", too.