October 13, 2004

iPod Dominates Marketshare

NPD Group in their latest study put Apple's iPod at 68% of the MP3 player market and 82% of the hard-drive market. Pure utter domination. The Rio brand, which was the first MP3 player, only has 6% share now. Good riddance too. My first two MP3 players from Rio both broke down within a year. Flash memory players are SUPPOSED to be more durable, then how come my iPod is still running like a champ for a year and a half now. Rio also had horrible user interface and build quality vs. iPod. Read