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Dell Announces New Music Player, Download Service
gotr00t writes "It appears that Dell Computer Corp. has announced that by the end of the year, they will have released their digital audio player, known in short as the 'Dell DJ.' Along with the player, there will also be a digital music download service. Looks like Dell is also joining Apple in the consumer products category."
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Not true. If you read the article you are referencing, it states clearly about the Q4 2002 sales of portable MP3 players:
US Retail Dollar Market Share for MP3 Players Q4 2002 %
APPLE 26.98
RIO 10.13
The above is as far as dollar amounts. As far as actual units sold in the same quarter:
US Retail Unit Market Share for MP3 Players Q4 2002 %
RCA 12.95
RIO 11.27
APPLE 11.23
So, Apple generated the most revenue during 2002 Q4 among all other competitors in the U.S., but as far as units sold they are behind RCA and RIO.
As far as your figure of 58%, it comes from the following statement:
The latest market share numbers show the Windows version of the iPod is the most popular product, controlling 58 percent of the units sold, compared to 42 percent for the Mac version.
This sentence is somewhat poorly worded (and taken a little out of context as well), but my reading is that out of all iPod sales, Windows version had a share of 58%, and Mac version had a share of 42%. Also as evidenced by the numbers presented, RCA and RIO are actually outselling iPod in terms of units sold. So, assuming those relative trends it would be impossible for iPod to hold 58% market share in unit shipments in the PC market.
Having said that, I would like to see more recent numbers from 2003, and over a longer period of time than just one quarter. If anyone has seen such information or reports, it would be interesting to look at.