Scribd. My Reading List: Unread. Apple iPod Accessories Not Cheap With 'Tax' - Complaints on iPod and iPhone Accessories. Apple sold 22 million iPods in the first quarter of this year—a boon for the nearly $2 billion MP3 accessories market, which Apple audits for licensing fees sometimes near 10 percent per product.
"It's trying to control that environment so it can control the level of the quality of the piece," says a product decision maker at a global consumer electronics company. (Photograph by Paul Sakuma/Associated Press) Last year, when Apple introduced the original iPhone and the latest generation of iPods, another new product came out of Cupertino, Calif., but this one received little fanfare.