RSSReports: Dell Exits MP3 Player Business
By Ed Oswald | Published August 23, 2006, 2:53 PM
After announcing in February that it would no longer produce hard-drive based MP3 players, Dell has apparently also exited the flash-based music player business as well. Rumors of the Dell Ditty's demise began to circulate after the Shuffle rival was absent from the company's August catalog, and as of Wednesday afternoon, Dell-branded players were gone its online store.
Dell had been in the MP3 player market since 2003, but as never gained any appreciable share. User reports on Dell-owned forums indicated the players were available online for as low as $39 before selling out. With the exit of Dell, only four major players in the Windows-based digital music player industry remain: market-leader SanDisk, followed by Creative, Samsung and Sony, which recently added WMA support to its devices.
Did another company such as Creative or another who continues to manufacture MP3 players create this for DELL? DELL usually has other companies provide the hardware and rebrands it -- their printers have been Lexmarks in the past for instance.
Personally, I thought that the Ditty was a rather clever device and offered much more than an iPod Shuffle at a great price!
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|Boo Hoo Cry me i river
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"I'm sure people will
say the same thing
when Apple leaves the
computer business"
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And, let's face it, Apple is a music store
...NOT a computer maker anymore !
Scoffers and mockers couldn't abide The DataRat
pronouncement that the Mac is dead. But funeral
services are ~already~ under way.
Let's face it: Steve Jobs was all superficial trite
external show, and how long could THAT last ?
Now the MacIntosh snobs and BetaNews must
move on to the next fad.
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The Computer Rodent
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|Apple makes fancy PC and a nice PC OS.
They just have to go a bit further and use only standart components. :)
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|They waited too long to bail on an effort they waited too long to start. Gee.
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|Dell made music players? :-/
(joking folks)
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|Dell should get out of the computer business altogether just because their laptop batteries went on fire.
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|It's no secret that lithium batteries are the most unstable batteries ever created. Maybe laptop computer companies (including Dell) should go back to NiMH batteries. Sure, you'll get shorter battery life, but at least the possibility of your laptop catching on fire is much less likely.
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|Will this be the first Dell on Woot?
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|Woah!
Dell was in the MP3 player business??? ;)
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|I'm sure people will say the same thing when Apple leaves the computer business. lol ;-)
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|Holy **** I'm so upset
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