On 20/11/2007, Carlos Roman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Xiph wiki has the list: > > http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers > > > > The part about Chinese-made players being Vorbis-aware > > without documentation is interesting. > > > > I'm not aware of publicly available marketshare data for > > portable players though (that is, non-iPod). NPD in the US > > probably has that info for $$. > > > > Sean > > Well in 2004 the NPD said iPods accounted for 92.1% of the market for > hard drive-based music players > (http://www.news.com/Its-all-about-the-iPod/2100-1041_3-5406519.html). > The market wasn't as crowded then, but gives an impression of how many > have been sold. > > Figures for sales in January 2007 from NPD show: > Category: MP3 > Rank Brand Unit Share > 1 Apple 72.7%
That's almost a Microsoft-style monopoly! > 2 SanDisk 8.9% > 3 Microsoft 3.2% > 4 Creative Labs 2.9% > 5 Samsung 2.0% > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=AAPL > :US&sid=ap0bqJw2VpwI > > Out of just those top 5 I think SanDisk and Samsung might be the only > ones that support OggVorbis without some sort of hack. Also, these > figures only give current sales and not current market share. > > All the backstage podcasts that have been done have been available in > several different formats, any chance we could find out which format was > the most popular? Then again, probably not a good sample of users to do > such a test on. > > If people really want OggVorbis support then you might want to try and > let Radio know about it > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/contact/podcast_form.shtml. Personally I > don't think it would be "Value for Money" for Licence Fee payers to do > it, but then that is just my opinion :) > > -Carlos. > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
