Dell Quietly Leaves MP3 Market

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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microsoft.. why else?

[User 956]

ell 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. Of course they bailed on the market. Microsoft is about to enter it and drop a shitload of cash in an attempt to gain marketshare, just like they did with xbox. The most likely scenario is that they're going to initially cannibalize non-ipod sales.

Re:A Lesson for Late Comers?

[bangenge]

apple would have loved to have stuck to their core competency, but they gambled. but they had a good (and you might even say great) marketing strategy, a good (again, conservative estimate) product and a market still not really saturated at that time. i have to admit, although you might say luck had to do a lot with the ipod's success, they did what they could to eliminate the need to rely on luck. dell apparently realized that they can't compete with the 50000000lb gorilla in there with the other known consumer electronic brands (sony, panasonic, creative) already having a tough time themselves. coincidentally, i was "watching" tv the other night (i'm in japan right now and i don't understand japanese that much), and i saw a chart that *probably* says that apple has about 50% share of the MP3 player market, with sony at 20% (i hope someone can check me on this one). if sony can't get a bigger share HERE in japan, why should dell have it? as much a lot of companies want to come out with an ipod-killer, they really can't do much about it.