You know, if Nostradamus were alive today, he would probably be a financial analyst. The closest we have, though, is Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray. A mild-mannered one, Gene is expecting Apple to sell 8 million iPods by the end of this quarter, citing a good sales report from the company in recent weeks.

According to MacObserver: "Mr. Munster noted that Apple's iPod market share in May was 76%, which was flat with April. However, he said: "The iPod number will likely be a nonevent for the June quarter. More importantly, we believe the Mac number has room for upside. We expect new versions of iPod and positive seasonality will be a catalyst for this segment of the business in the back half of 2006."