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The headphone industry was generating $2.3B in revenue in 2013 [1], with premium headphones making $1B of that. Needless to say, the world is much larger than y

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• hbosch 10y ago
  I wonder how much of that "premium" segment is owned by Beats? Regardless of their quality, this CNN article[0] claims that beats owns a quarter of the total headphones market and over half of the "premium headphones" segment. These other stats claim that Apple & Beats, combined, account for 70% of future purchase plans for teens.[1] Th definitely have the edge with regards to marketing. And also, looks like just recently Bluetooth headphones are outselling wired headphones.[2] With Apple controlling Beats, and Beats nearly controlling the headphones market, I still think this problem will end up affecting a mere niche demographic one year from today. -- 0. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/tech/beats-headphones-audio-market/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/13/tech/beats-headphones-audio-ma... (from 2014. Also, beware opening on mobile, it's banner heavy for me) 1. http://www.statisticbrain.com/headphone-industry-market-share-statistics/ http://www.statisticbrain.com/headphone-industry-market-shar... (March 2016) 2. http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/28/bluetooth-headphone-sales-surpass-others-for-first-time-with-apples-beats-in-top-spot http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/28/bluetooth-h... (July 2016)