Apple iPod Takes 60% of Japanese Portable Player Market

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 17, 2005 - 4:09am.

Tokyo - Apple has announced that its iPod digital music player now accounts for 60% of all players sold in Japan, citing a report in Business Computer News, while its iTunes Music Store has also become the leading digital music retailer since launching in Japan in August. The company's market share for the iPod has surpassed 50% of the Japanese market since September, BCN reported. "It has been a tremendous year for Apple and music in Japan with the opening of the iTunes Music Store and the introduction of the impossibly small iPod nano and fifth generation iPod," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.
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