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Originally Posted by Phogg
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.
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The iPod has been the overwhelming market leader in mp3 players for quite some time.
Whilst they weren't first to market , they were the first to make a really appealing mp3 player. Previous efforts had been mostly small-capacity solid state devices with limited memory and awful user interfaces. They came along with a well designed, large capacity (5GB was considered large at the time) player that people found easy to use.