Some mobiles great for mp3s !
p2pnet.net News:- The average American digital music player contains 375 songs, says a new study.
“Despite a relatively high average of 375 songs per player, 50% of digital music players hold fewer than 100 songs – suggesting a perfect target for limited capacity mobile phone / digital music player hybrids,” says Canada’s Solutions Research Group.
Not at all incidentally, Apple is about to announce a deal with Motorola to launch an iPhone.
A quarter of digital music players have 100-499 songs while the remaining 25% have more than 500 songs, says the report.
In other items of interest:
21% of young Americans (12-29) have a digital music player. Among those 30-49, ownership is 12%, and among those 50+, it drops to single digits: 4%.
Apple is the leading brand with a 53% market share of all digital music players, with Sony and RCA tied for a distant second with 9% share each.
iPod owners are big music fans: they have significantly larger libraries (504 songs on average) compared to owners of other digital music players (246 songs).
Motorola’s iTunes phone has significant market potential for Cingular – 14% of Cingular’s customers have a digital music player but a larger proportion, 17%, say they want to buy one in the next twelve months.
Mobile phone customers are already consuming music on their phones: one-in-four Cingular (26%) customers have downloaded a ringtone at some point in the past (lower than Sprint Nextel customers at 32% but higher than Verizon at 19%).
Only one-in-five (22%) digital music player owners bought a song online at some point in the past, suggesting a majority of the music on the devices come from owners’ CDs and P2P file-sharing sources.
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September 6th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
375?? is that all , my iriver has 15,000
September 7th, 2005 at 12:04 am
…as door jams, or paper weights, aquarium decor, leveling a table leg…or how about just as an effing telephone! what would be so wrong with that?
September 8th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Yeah… I don´t really think those figures are viable. Hell, no one asked me and I have a tonne.
But in the whole market, aren´t there more small 1 gigger players anyway? The results may be skewed that way.