Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:

My wife said, “You’re kidding, right?” but no, I’m not. It’s been five years to the day that the iPod was introduced. Seems like it’s been around forever, and as we know, it’s taken over the majority of the MP3 player market.

Difficult as it may be to fathom, it was only five years ago that Apple, long known as a cutting-edge computer company, launched a product that enabled people to carry their entire music collections in their pockets. The easily-navigated personal jukebox transformed the way people listen to music. Now, there are roughly 70 million of them out there. [Source: CBS News]

We Say: Apple is clearly the market leader, but it needs to continue innovating to keep the lead. As we all know, the Zune is due out soon, and while that most likely isn’t going to make much a dent short-term, Microsoft has one huge marketing machine.[tags]apple, ipod, mp3, audio, digital media[/tags]