Yeah, must be just a mirrage that 95% of the people that I see everyday on the subway and on the street, wear ipods.
All a matter of where you live... where I am, on the bus and subway, maybe 10-20% of the folks wearing earbuds are Ipods.. the rest are generic CD players with MP3 or other brand MP3 players.
I will amit the Ipod nano is pretty neat in terms of its size, but I'm more than happy with one for well under $100 that plays more hours of music than I'm ever going to listen too before changing the tunes in it.
Of course, I'm not worried about having status symbols or looking cool either...