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Re:Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related... by djrogers on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:38PM (#14715615)
But the iPod Touch didn’t crush Archos, diamond, and Rio. It came about after the iPhone was in the market...
Re:Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related... by spiralpolitik on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:14AM (#14715988)
According to Wikipedia both Diamond and Archos players were DOA by 2005, two years before the iPhone was released. Creative struggled on for a few years post iPhone. 2005 was the year of the iPod Photo and the iPod Video, although the beginning of the iPod as multi-function device started in 2002 with addition of the PDA functionality.

By 2006 Apple had 72-74% of the MP3 player market, with SanDisk, Creative, Zune, Sony, Samsung, and other accounting for the remainder. I seem to recall most of the damage was done by the iPod Mini.

Re:Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related... by djrogers on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @01:58AM (#14741893)
Correct, all those MP3 players were killed by the mini and the nano, some by the big iPod. None of them competed with the iPod Touch which was a post-iPhone product.
Re:Jawbone is being liquidated as its CEO launches a related... by dilemma on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:56AM (#14716177)
Mini wasn't a multifunction device though.