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Originally Posted by Kolenka
Yeah, this is basically what happened before the iPod and other market dominators appeared in the MP3 market..
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There never was an early period when nobody dominated the MP3 market. In the beginning Diamond pretty much owned the field.
Creative and several others were trying to wrest a portion of the market away, with liumited success.
Apple jumped in with a ton of capital, and a new clientelle made up primarily of apple users who hadn't been into digital music before. Apple came to dominate sales of mainstream recording house music, and their iPods have been highly profitable, but they do not and never have owned a majority share of the market. at the end of the 90s the market became highly fragmented. Today much of the market is in convergence units of some sort.
When iPods were launched, they weren't even a factor in several significant sectors of the market. Apple didnt realise the need to make players more rugged than the hard drive technology of their early units allowed, and if you were buying a player to waer while woring out or woring in a trade job you quickly dissabused yourself of Apple's offerings.