Music services still dance around wireless play.(Focus)

RCR Wireless News, December, 2006

Byline: COLIN GIBBS This was supposed to be the year of the music phone, but as the holiday season approaches the home stretch, on-the-go music lovers are still hoping to find dedicated MP3 players in their stockings. U.S. sales of portable digital music players is expected to slow as the market moves beyond early adopters to mass-market users, according to a recent report from JupiterResearch.

But the user base for such devices will increase steadily in coming years, the firm predicts, growing from 37 million customers this year to more than 100 million in 2011. Apple Computer Inc.'s ubiquitous iPod will continue to account for the lion's share of predicted sales, JupiterResearch said, but new offerings such as Microsoft Corp.'s Zune, which hit...

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