Nothing really surprising in this article from Troy Wolverton from MercuryNews.com
In the five-week period from Nov. 19 to Dec. 23, iPods accounted for 57.3 percent of all players sold at a panel of electronics stores that notably didn’t include the Cupertino company’s own retail outlets. Apple’s share was up from 42 percent for a similar period last year. Milpitas memory-products maker SanDisk was No. 2 with 19.2 percent of units sold, down from 22.1 percent last year. Microsoft, which debuted its new Zune player in November, came in fourth behind Creative Technology with 2.8 percent of the market. Creative had 3.4 percent.
