When iPod was released almost 10 years ago the accessory market was slow to pick up. In the beggining a couple of vendors offered more or less good speaker options, one could buy a pair of headphones and a screen protector decals – and that was it. Ten years after, the iPod accessory market is a jungle – you can pretty much find anything you want (or need) and that uses or helps use the iPod (see image below – iLounge iPod Toilet Paper Roll Dispenser).
Enter the iPad! This time around the accessories market will not be dormant for years – there is a slew of new accessories being announced or already demoed (I am already getting spam posts with links to iPad cables, screen protectors, cases, etc.) To sum this up, here is what Belkin one of the largest iPod accessories manufacturers had to say on the subject:
“The iPad market has huge potential,” said Jamie Elgie, a product management director; at accessory company Belkin International. “We think it has the potential to be game-changing and we need to be on top of it.”
