Three Digital Jukebox Players Scrapped
Dell has stopped selling three of its Digital Jukebox hard-drive based MP3 players. While they will still sell the sub-$100 DJ Ditty, the three iPod-alternatives were dropped because they failed to be competitive with… iPods, especially the not-so-recently introduced iPod Nano.
Truthfully, the Digital Jukebox series never had any appeal to me, price or design-wise. So, cutting them off seems to be good news. After all, with Dell branching out so extensively to consumer products, it is inevitable that a few of them would fail. But if you still want to know more about Dell’s Digital Jukebox, read this review on it by PC Magazine. PCMag gave it three out of five stars.
[News via statesman.com]
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House of Dell » Dell’s Pull-Out From MP3 Player Market: Why? said,
Pingback • February 17, 2006 @ 3:39 am
[…] Getting out of failed ventures is an acceptable move which no company can avoid, even if it is the mighty Dell. So, when Dell announced that it would be scrapping its failed Digital Jukebox line of hard-drive MP3 players recently, it really was not that surprising. As a reason for the move, Dell stated that it “…saw an opportunity to streamline and consolidate our (Dell’s) portfolio.” […]
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House of Dell » Dell DJ Ditty Review said,
Pingback • February 5, 2006 @ 8:08 am
[…] With Dell’s recent announcement that it would scrap three of its Digital Jukebox MP3 players, this review almost became obsolete. Luckily, Dell announced that it would continue producing the sub-$100 DJ Ditty. […]