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Dell Quietly Leaves MP3 Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-gently dept.

An AD-Esque Sitcom writes "Dell has quietly retired from the portable player market. The Dell DJ Ditty — whose website is nothing more than an error now — was absent from Dell's catalogue, and the company was not offering any follow-up products, instead preferring to stick with PCs, printers, and not killing people in fiery laptop-related explosions. Dell will still be a third-party reseller of other MP3 players like the Creative Zen, but has left the Windows-based player market to the four big players — SanDisk, Samsung, Sony, and Creative."

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  1. Hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Atleast they didnt leave explosively. You gotta give them credit for that much.

  2. Now they've lost so many opportunities... by w33t · · Score: 4, Funny

    to kill people in fiery MP3-player-related explosions.

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    1. Re:Now they've lost so many opportunities... by RuBLed · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...they still have the opportunity to kill people in fiery printer-related explosions, at least that one would be a little more colorful.

  3. Re:Explosions! by w33t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course we need these sorts of comments in the summaries! You vacuous, ill-educated buffoon! ...and when you say "flamebait", are you reffering to the comment or the laptop battery?

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  4. Whose website is nothing more than an error now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, they still make the player.

    The website is down until they get some replacement batteries for the server.

  5. Re:A Lesson for Late Comers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Stick to your core competency"

    Yeah, I wish Apple would have listened to you before they started selling iPods :-)

  6. dude! by minus_273 · · Score: 5, Funny

    dude! you're exiting the market!

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  7. Re:HA! by bacterial_pus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quick! What rhymes with Ditty?

  8. Re:Explosions! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do we really need these sorts of comments in the summaries?

    No kidding! I have a Dell laptop right here, and I've never had a singl....AHHHHHHHH!!!

    SEARING HEAT!!!

    FLAMES!!!!!!! CHEMICAL SMELL!!! THE HEAT.. IT BURNS!! Good god HELP ME!!!! MY GENITALS ARE ON FIRE! They are reduced to USELESS CINDERS!!

    Oh god now my laptop has LEPT INTO THE AIR WITH EXPLOSIVE FORCE! Flaming SPARKS are RAINING on my HIGHLY FLAMMABLE HAIR! Same has now erupted into flames! AHHH!!!!!!!! The pain is UNBEARABLE!

    My EYES!!! Filled with BURNING LITHIUM!!! OH GOD WHY, WHY!

    ARGHGHH!!!!!!!! The laptop has completed it's ascent and subsequent DESCENT.. now it CRASHED ON MY HEAD!! PAIN!!! The FLAMING SHARDS are now propelled HORIZONTALLY!!!

    NOOOOOO!!!! NOT MY FIREWORKS COLLECTION!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! I should've listened to my DEAR MOTHER and not stored them under my work desk. I SHAKE MY FIST AT MY MOTHER!!! CURSING her for bringing me into this world, only to MEET WITH A FLAMING LITHIUM DEATH!!! MY FIST THEN SHAKES AT MICHAEL DELL, the bringer of HELLFIRE!

    My charred body, lying prone on the ground, PRAYING that the SWEET RELEASE of DEATH will deliver me from TORMENT!!! YOUR RECALL IS USELESS TO A CORPSE.

  9. Not completely accurate by digitalderbs · · Score: 4, Funny
    instead preferring to stick with PCs, printers, and not killing people in fiery laptop-related explosions.

    I'm a Dell representative, and I'd like to say that this statement is not entirely true. We're also in the business of selling monitors, and we'll continue to kill people in fiery laptop-related explosions.