“Vendors of non-brand name flash-based MP3 players have reduced their retail prices by 10-20% for 512MB models and 20-35% for 1GB models in the Taiwan market. These vendors, most of whom are based in China, have slashed prices to avoid potential stagnant sales or excess inventory due to the launch of Apple Computer’s iPod nano, according to a local industry source,” Jimmy Hsu, Phoebe Chen, and Adam Hwang report for DigiTimes. “In related news, about 200 small and medium-size makers of MP3 players in Guangdong, China have been forced to close operations during the first half of this year due to tough competition, according to China-based on-line media SINA.com.”
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Again apple is making the mp3 player space more competitive and is driving down prices for everyone! Now all we need is a 16 gb nano! but would that still be called a nano?
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16gb nano qill be called mano
>about 200 small and medium-size makers
200 Makers?!! That’s a lot. How many are there? Does that mean there are more than 200 left still making them?
And if each maker of an MP3 player makes more than one player (excluding Creative who seem to have about 100 of their own), that’s a LOT of players on the market. Talk about confusing the punter with choice.
And with all these players, you would think that it provides good competition to Apple, yet they are still seemingly the only company making what people really want.
The iPod is a Killer… It’s got more blood on it’s hands!!!
“about 200 small and medium-size makers of MP3 players in Guangdong, China have been forced to close operations during the first half of this year due to tough competition”
They’re dropping faster than you can name them.
What comes after nano? Isn’t it pico?
I have a feeling those 200 would have to include manufacturing of parts and such like the little nipple on the Chiba, plastic shells, little circuit board shops etc…. I did see this little cube thing with an OLED screen on Walmarts’ site that looked really cool….
MobiBlu
This is the first one in a while I looked at for longer than 30 seconds. It has a little loop so you can hook it on a laniard. Not too shabby.
Seriously,
What are they going to sell in flea markets now? Whenever lower middle class America wanted some cheap knock off like Mikey sport shoes (with their non-trademarked swish, a PioNear CD-Radio, a Sonee Walkm’am, that is where they would go, right?
So, now where those same redneck losers get their Appel iBuds???
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…moldy fish
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“200 Makers?!! That’s a lot. How many are there? Does that mean there are more than 200 left still making them?
And if each maker of an MP3 player makes more than one player (excluding Creative who seem to have about 100 of their own), that’s a LOT of players on the market. Talk about confusing the punter with choice.
And with all these players, you would think that it provides good competition to Apple, yet they are still seemingly the only company making what people really want.”
All fair observations, of the north American market. In asia, things are quite different… They have significantly more choices in products there due to how unregulated and wild the business market is there… Anyone can make pretty much anything if they have a factory, and getting them is easy since you don’t have to pay workers much to be paying them 100x more than they make as a poor asian dirt farmer.
Like the flea market wierdo said, that’s where that stuff ends up when it hit’s our shores, of which a very small percentage actually does. It’s the same kind of stuff found at places like Fry’s, only not as blatantly ripping off major US brands.
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