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Posted on Sunday, May 14 2006 @ 11:09 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DM Europe
writes a consumer survey from In-Stat shows a whopping 49 percent of all MP3 player owners has an Apple iPod.
The rapidly growing worldwide market for Flash-based and hard disk drive (HDD)-based players is to jump from 140m units in 2005 to 286m by 2010, according to a report from market research firm In-Stat. Drivers for this market include falling price points, the availability of legitimate subscription and pay-per-download online music sites, increasing Flash memory capacities, and enhanced functionality.