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According to a recent report by In-Stat research company, the low price points and broad availability of legal music files will have as a consequence the growth of MP3 players’s market- to nearly double by 2010. The market for flash-based and hard-disk drive (HDD)-based portable audio players will more than double in the next five years, from 140 million units in 2005 to 286 million by 2010. Apple’s iPod music player continues to dominate the rapidly growing MP3 player market as the survey also showed that nearly 50 percent of MP3 player owners had an iPod, representing a strong installed base. Apple’s iPod has been the top selling MP3 player in the US, garnering nearly 80 percent market share in March and leading by a wide margin in several international markets, such as UK, Japan, Australia, and Canada.