Bowing to pressure from iPhone fans, Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Communications moved to give Apple fans lining up for the new iPhone Friday a special offer on the price of Internet usage for the latest version of Apple's media player, smart phone hybrid.
Bowing to pressure from iPhone fans, Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Communications (nyse: RCI - news - people ) moved to give Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) fans lining up for the new iPhone Friday a special offer on the price of Internet usage for the latest version of Apple's media player, smart phone hybrid.
C. have to install Sprint music software, rather than using Windows Media Player or Apple iTunes, which most people already use.
She expects media player makers to greater exploit Apple's tense relationships with record labels.
's annual developers' conference in San Francisco Monday, the company's chief executive took a moment to detail his plan to go global with Apple's hot-selling phone and media player.
At Apple's annual developers' conference in San Francisco Monday, the company's chief executive took a moment to detail his plan to go global with Apple's hot-selling phone and media player.
As of last year, 45% of adults used Microsoft 's Windows Media Player for downloading video, while 10% used RealNetworks ' Real Player and 6% used Apple 's iTunes or Quicktime, according to Forrester Research.
Apple's dominance stems from the popularity of its iPod media player and its integration with the iTunes software.
Granted, Google didn't seem to have many options: Apple, by far the dominant player in online digital-media sales, doesn't currently license its Fairplay DRM, and Microsoft is one of Google's biggest competitors.
He moved Apple beyond personal computers into the digital media device market with the iPod music player in 2001, the smartphone market in 2007 with the iPhone and the tablet market with the iPad in 2010.
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The new gadget will come equipped with a camera and digital music player and could blunt some of the multi-media appeal of Apple's gadgets.
From keeping the waning iPod classic in the lineup to leaving the still-potent iPod touch untouched save for a blanching and price reduction, the venerable digital media player line seemed all but ignored at a time of year when Apple once primed the holiday pump for MP3 players.
In keeping with Apple's own acknowledgment that the standalone iPod is dying, sales of the iconic media player dipped 8 percent year-over-year (10.2 million units were sold), while 7.4 million iPhones were moved representing a 7 percent uptick from this period a year ago.
While, as a digital media player, the Movit mini may not fare much better than other MP3 players Apple has stared down, it represents a new entry in a class of mobile computers free from carrier bonds that likely represent the future of the portable media player''s high end.
Moreover the halo effect from the hot-selling media players has led to a surge in sales of Apple desktop and laptop computers that has made Apple a player in the computer market once again.
It has everything that critics and Nintendo fanboys said Apple would never have: a monstrous business that threatens to dominate portable gaming the way the iPod devoured the digital media player market.
Close behind is Microsoft's Media Player, with 38%, then QuickTime, with a distant 14% share. (Apple disagrees that its share is so low.) That, despite such gimmicks as a Disney promotion on boxes of Frosted Cheerios cereal giving away QuickTime software.
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