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Dell Announces New Music Player, Download Service
gotr00t writes "It appears that Dell Computer Corp. has announced that by the end of the year, they will have released their digital audio player, known in short as the 'Dell DJ.' Along with the player, there will also be a digital music download service. Looks like Dell is also joining Apple in the consumer products category."
Apple did it first with IPod and ITunes... how does that make Dell so brilliant?
a music service that doesn't impose draconian so-called copy-protection measures on its audio files
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Isn't Micheal Dell who said a while back, before Steve Jobs was called back that Apple should sell their assets and redistribute money to the shareholders?
What a moron. Never liked the guy, crap computers (and I'm certainly not the only one to think that) and annoying commercials.
I'll never buy their stuff.
iTunes for Windows and the iTMS for Windows along with it, will be out October 19th
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CB
free ipod and free gmail!
Fixed link: http://www.businesswire.com/photowire/pw.092503/bb 8a.jpg
CB
free ipod and free gmail!
Kudos to Michael Dell.
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"So with this huge market share, what R&D has Dell contributed to the world? Absolutely nothing, except for their one invention: a tech support button [theregister.co.uk] on their machines which never worked properly and they longer support. Every single aspect of Dell's business is copied from other manufacturers. There is absolutely no innovation going on there."
Bull. How many major PC makers did PC advanced PC customization before Dell, where you pick exactly what components you want from Monitor to Video Card to Speakers? Dell also led the way in direct customer sales. And their supply-chain is one of the best of ANY company.
Brian
check out the cost of the hd that's inside an iPod and they're not making much at all on these things.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Not true. If you read the article you are referencing, it states clearly about the Q4 2002 sales of portable MP3 players:
US Retail Dollar Market Share for MP3 Players Q4 2002 %
APPLE 26.98
RIO 10.13
The above is as far as dollar amounts. As far as actual units sold in the same quarter:
US Retail Unit Market Share for MP3 Players Q4 2002 %
RCA 12.95
RIO 11.27
APPLE 11.23
So, Apple generated the most revenue during 2002 Q4 among all other competitors in the U.S., but as far as units sold they are behind RCA and RIO.
As far as your figure of 58%, it comes from the following statement:
The latest market share numbers show the Windows version of the iPod is the most popular product, controlling 58 percent of the units sold, compared to 42 percent for the Mac version.
This sentence is somewhat poorly worded (and taken a little out of context as well), but my reading is that out of all iPod sales, Windows version had a share of 58%, and Mac version had a share of 42%. Also as evidenced by the numbers presented, RCA and RIO are actually outselling iPod in terms of units sold. So, assuming those relative trends it would be impossible for iPod to hold 58% market share in unit shipments in the PC market.
Having said that, I would like to see more recent numbers from 2003, and over a longer period of time than just one quarter. If anyone has seen such information or reports, it would be interesting to look at.