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Report: MP3 player sales fell by over 20 percent in UK in 2012

article published on 26 December, 2012

According to a new report by Mintel, sales of MP3 players fell 22 percent in the UK year-over-year, a very strong decline even for an industry on its last legs. Sales fell by £110 million to £381 million. Mintel goes as far as to say that sales will be half of that by 2017, with a worst case scenario seeing the industry decline 90 percent to just £25 million in the same time frame. ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic
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_ 		27. December 2012 @ 10:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Honestly there is no more value in PMP in most countries because technology has revolutionized and will continue to do so. They should seriously be handing out most PMP devices for free and Ipods/Droid clone media players should have an MRSP of $25 or less globally. Even then, like this article says they will have no value, and by 2017 neither will our current handsets, regardless of being table or cell.
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