Build Your Own Computer: Blog » touch http://buildyourown-computer.com/blog Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:19:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 End of the iPod era http://buildyourown-computer.com/blog/2009/09/17/end-of-the-ipod-era/ http://buildyourown-computer.com/blog/2009/09/17/end-of-the-ipod-era/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:03:32 +0000 khanbm http://buildyourown-computer.com/blog/?p=107 This month, Apple released an upgrade to its iPod line. But amid the hype surrounding its careful marketing and intentional secrecy about the content of the launch, a different truth is emerging: that we are seeing the twilight of the stand-alone digital music player (DMP), a product category little more than 10 years old. [ad#Adsense] [...] No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

This month, Apple released an upgrade to its iPod line. But amid the hype surrounding its careful marketing and intentional secrecy about the content of the launch, a different truth is emerging: that we are seeing the twilight of the stand-alone digital music player (DMP), a product category little more than 10 years old.

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That does not mean digital music players will vanish. Quite the opposite: the sector is still growing. Increasingly, though, the products have some sort of connectivity — whether wi-fi, mobile phone, Bluetooth or all three.

But if you look closely, signs the stand-alone player is in decline are all around. The first, and most obvious, was Apple's announcement in its latest quarterly results that iPod sales fell year-on-year for the first time since the product's launch in October 2001. As the iPod dominates the market for DMPs, any drop in its sales indicates a fall in the market.

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