Apple has 72.3 percent of MP3 player market in February
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 10, 2007 at 2:27pm
Apple dominated the MP3 player market in February with 72.3 percent market share. Other companies in the top five (and their marketshare) were: Sandisk (9.7 percent); Creative Labs (2.7 percent), Samsung (2.5 percent) and Microsoft (2.5 percent). The tables from Bloomberg are ranked by total dollar volume and unit share in descending order.
These figures are for retail channel sales only and don’t include direct sales, sales from Wal-Mart or warehouse clubs. On April 9 Apple announced that the 100 millionth iPod has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
hmurchison Says:
Good. I think Apple has done more than anyone to define the online download and DAP market and deserves to have a such a large lead.
Posted on April 10, 2007