iTunes passes Real Player in uniques

This shouldn’t come as a surprise for anyone but iTunes has surpassed the god-awful Real Player for unique users in 2007. Of the four major music players (Real, Quicktime, iTunes and Windows Media player) iTunes was the only one to post a positive growth average. In the last four years iTunes has grown from the paltry 669 uniques to over 35,000. Real Players has remained generaly stable over the same period never dipping below 27,000 or over 35,000 uniques. The real shame of it all is that Windows Media player is still the top dog by a wide margin. Since 2003, Windows Media Player has never had less than 45,000 and this year has over 75,000. It’s unique number over the last year has completely stagnated and even slipped a little.

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