Apple is close to launching an Arabic language version of the iPod, as the Middle East becomes even more attached to the increasingly popular handheld music player.
"iPods have become an iconic product for people of all ages across the Middle East," Elias Abou-Rustom, general manager of Arab Business Machine, told Gulf News.
"Apple is working on this. A prototype has already been made available to us," he said, adding that the two firms were also working together on a localised Arabic version of the Apple Mac's OS 10 Tiger operating system.
"Apple's growing product line has also seen significant success in the Middle East through 2005," Mr Abou-Rustom added.
The news comes as Apple revealed that it sold over 14 million iPods worldwide in its fiscal first quarter at the end of 2005.
This helped it to increase its revenues by 64 per cent, from $3.49 billion to$5.75 billion in the run-up to Christmas.
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