iPod kills off Dell rivals
It may not be the official party line but what else can you blame when a company like Dell decides to axe it's hard-disk series of MP3 players? According to a Dell spokesman, the company has decided to withdraw from the high-end of the MP3 player marketplace, axing the 5Gb Pocket DJ, 20Gb Dell DJ20 and 30Gb Dell DJ30 music players. The only player that Dell will continue to sell is the 512Mb Flash-based DJ Ditty. Liem Nguyen at Dell said: “We are streamlining our product portfolio”.
He denied it had anything to do with Apple's dominance of the MP3 player market and said it was more to do with customer demand. Considering most customers are demanding iPods, we'd have to conclude that it has a lot to do with Apple after all. Still, losing a big player like Dell is bad news for us consumers since less iPod rivals means less competition in the market and ineveitably, higher prices. More details here.
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