The iPod: great future or terminal decline?

Compare and contrast:

The iPod is dying and will die in 2006

While there’s much to quibble with in the second article*, it’s still an interesting exercise in perspective, and looking outside a niche.

*For instance, just because a phone ships with MP3 playing capacity, doesn’t mean it’ll be used, whereas an MP3 player is going to be used to play audio files, by default. Thus, the comparison isn’t like-with-like. There may be 90m musicphones out there, but how many are being used for music?

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About Adam Tinworth

Adam is a digital journalism analyst, trainer and consultant. He started his career publishing newspapers for the children on his street in the 1980s, edited student magazines in the 1990s, and then spent a decade as a business journalist. In 2006, he moved full-time into digital journalism development. Since 2012, he's been trading as an independent consultant, and has worked with everything from national and international newspapers, to small local charities.