Flash MP3 player sales to rise more than 40 percent
updated 09:00 am EST, Wed January 19, 2005
Flash MP3 player outlook
Global sales of portable digital music players are this year, according to Creative Technology, the world's second-largest manufacturer of MP3 players. Reuters reports that Creative cited estimates from market research firm IDC and said in a seminar in Taipei that Creative and its rivals (including Samsung and Apple) would collectively sell 35 million portable flash MP3 players in 2005, compared with 25 million in 2004. "Apple is the leader in the mini hard disk-drive (HDD) music player market, with a roughly 60 to 70 percent share...But Samsung and Creative together hold 13 percent of the global market share in the fast-growing segment that uses flash memory chips, Tsai said."
