Portable Audio Overtakes Home Audio

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In 2005, portable music equipment outsold home audio equipment.
For the first time, more money was spent on iPods and other MP3 players than on CD players and in-home stereo equipment.

1979 - Sony unveiled the Walkman.
2003 - Apple unveiled the iPod.
2006 - Microsoft introduces the Zune.

Gleebit: Notebook computers, which have outsold desktop computers for years, are not counted as portable music players for the purposes of this survey.

Source: Consumer Electronics Association