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> Sometime I think that those of us that have a PC automatically assume that
> everyone else in the world has a PC too. Obviously this is not true, and while
> the awareness of PC's has certainly risen to heady heights many people still
> only use them at work or not at all. MP3 is reliant on PC's .. MD is not,
> sure I have a great PC (PIII500, 256MbRAM, 13Gb HDD, SCSI CDR),
> but not everyone does.
In the USA and in Europe, 10% of the population has a PC. That equals
about
1 out of three families. This number stays the same. It doesn't grow.
The PC
market has reached a point where it's a 'replacement' market.
For MP3 to breakthru, people will need the means to download and archive
the
MP3 files... I've seen one other solution than a PC. A sollution comming
from
TeraTec. But it was offcourse expensive.
Philips tried to introduce CDR recording in the form of a CDR home deck.
They
saw a big 'market' due to the PC based CD Recorders. They made a
mistake... People
who where in CD Recording already had a PC. and people who wanted to
record digital,
already had DAT or MD.
It's the same I think for MP3. PC users will use it, but others not.
There is only one thing that wories me... Mobile phones and the
upcomming new standard
will allow us to listen to MP3 music using our phone. It will allow us
to connect to a
site and listen to it! It's not a joke, you could have seen prototypes
on the Geneva
telecominication conference. It's due for somewhere between 2002 and
2005!
Cheers,
Ralph -> who had to be very carefull since he knows more than he is
allowed to write!
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