December 12, 2006 > Apple sales strong as holiday shopping starts

San Jose Business Journal, November 27_Apple Computer Inc.'s line of iPod music players was the most popular electronic device sold online over the Thanksgiving shopping-intense weekend.

Cupertino-based Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPods took five of Amazon.com’s top 10 spots of most-purchased consumer electronic items, and 10 of the top 25 spots.

Redmond, Wash. based Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) rival Zune product was left far behind, with even an iPod accessory outselling the Microsoft media player.

Amazon reported that Apple's 2-gigabyte silver iPod Nano was the top-selling electronics device, followed by the black 30-gigabyte video iPod and the newly released 1-gigabyte iPod Shuffle.