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Dell Offers $100 For Old iPods
Mz6 writes "Dell unveiled an offer that grants music player customers a $100 rebate on a
15GB Digital Jukebox when they
send in an Apple iPod music player to be recycled. 'We want to help drive further awareness of the products we have available and...the plusses we have to offer,' said Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn. Thus the iPod offer 'is a way to call out what separates us from the understood leader in this particular market.' Dell is also offering free shipping, free software, and 25 free songs through MusicMatch and brings the overall cost for the DJ down to $99." Helpful tip: If you have a dead iPod, do the rebate offer, and sell the Jukebox on eBay.
The result is win-win for the consumer because, assuming the Dell players are nice in their own merit, owners of older iPods are receiving a good deal on a nice upgrade while at the same time helping to wrest the industry from a virtual monopoly. If Apple is scared enough, it will respond as best it can by making appropriate adjustments to product/service price/quality in order to get everybody a better deal. Therefore, whether your loyalty is held with Dell or Apple, this is a move that would seem improve the standing of both companies' clients.
Bad Biz think about it. Its like when the Chinaese enter into a market and make a product and lose money on every sale untill they have driven every other company out of bussiness and they control the whole industy, can anyone say Hyndai or Toyota?
Linux is like living in a teepee. No Windows, no Gates, Apache in house.
send in Broken iRaq and get back shining Afaganistan
why do people expect apple's stuff to work with anything else? there is not exactly much of a history of that happening...
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