There’s an article on Gizmodo this week about how portable CD players are still outselling digital music players by a wide margin. The article quotes an IDC survey that says while 53% of all US households have a portable CD player, six percent have some sort of digital music player.
Six percent, folks. Think about that the next time you read a breathless article about how podcasting is changing the world as we know it, and you’d better join the legions of white-headphone-wearers or you’ll be cast to the…. well, someplace where unhip people go.
The author refers to the higher cost of iPods and other digital players being a factor in that low number, but the most poignant part of the article is this:

The other reason you have to factor into the CD player