It may not be BS, but it can be misleading. All that the graph is really saying is that they CURRENTLY have a larger market share. It does not reflect the amount of players sold over the same period, which honestly by reading the graph may be even, but I think that a bar graph would better reflect the actually volume sold. This is one of those statistics that is really not important to the overall format war because what is most important is the number of players/discs sold.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It may not be BS, but it can be misleading. All that the graph is really saying is that they CURRENTLY have a larger market share. It does not reflect the amount of players sold over the same period, which honestly by reading the graph may be even, but I think that a bar graph would better reflect the actually volume sold. This is one of those statistics that is really not important to the overall format war because what is most important is the number of players/discs sold.