Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on the convergence between cell phones and digital music players and the expected impact (not good) on the Apple iPod.
By way of example they note that Nokia expects to sell 80 million music phones in 2006 alone and pointedly remark that Apple has only sold a grand total of 60 million iPods since inception. Nokia can with some justification therefore claim to be the world’s biggest maker of music players. The article does hold out a ray of hope for the iPod by noting that only about one half of music capable phones are actually used to play music. Apple is of course fighting back mostly by means of the as-yet unannounced iPhone.
The question is, one supposes, does convenience trump cool? …the tone of the article suggests yes.
Wake-up Call for the iPod – Wall Street Journal, Nov 30, 2006
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I think convenience almost always trumps cool. I’m amazed the iPod lasted as long as it did.
I’m not surprised the iPod lasted for such a long time. No music player was more convenient or more cool, in my opinion.