Forrester Research has released its latest consumer technology report, and it claims that the growth of music-capable mobiles will restrict the growth in sales of MP3 players, which are set to go from 40 million households at the end of this year to 48.4 million in 2012 (these figures are for US households).
It's a plausible theory, with phones getting ever more storage capacity and slicker interfaces for playing music. It's arguably also shown in Apple's decision to launch the iPhone, to try and cannibalise its own sales, rather than have Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc nab its customers.
What about in the home though? We can't help feeling there'll still be growth in the number of people buying iPods and similar devices to store their music on and pipe it through their hi-fi. Although maybe more hi-fis will come with built-in hard drives and MP3-playing capabilities, come to think of it.
(via Cellular News)
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