Cellphones to eliminate iPod market?
updated 12:10 pm EDT, Wed July 5, 2006
Mobile dominance by 2010
A new report based on an IMS Research study covering "Global Markets for Handheld Media Players" has forecast the downfall of the iPod. Apple's dominance in the media player industry may all but vanish over the next five years because it is "regional and temporary," according to cellular-news.com. The report alleges that iPods will be unable to keep up with all-in-one cellular devices that are exploding onto the scene due to falling flash-based media prices. Consumers will choose one integrated device rather than tote both a mobile phone and an iPod, according to the report. Apple's iPod Nano was a key factor in the lowering of flash media prices in recent months, and saw "staggering" demand through the 2005 holiday shopping season which resulted in a record quarter for Apple.






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The whole premise here is that they assume that Apple will not continue developing the iPod. Of course the iPod as it is now will not match up to products of the future. Apple will continue to innovate. Because no one knows exactly what the future holds for iPod development, these assumptions are a waste of time and very shortsighted.