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WSJ: iPod edges out competitors
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Technology columnist Walt Mossberg measures the iPod against a few of its clones, including the Dell DJ and the Samsung Napster YP-910GS: "I still give the edge to Apple, but the margin is very slim and the other players, especially the Dell, are credible alternatives. The iPod wins because it is lighter and thinner, comes in higher capacities, has better built-in software, and integrates much better with Apple's download service than the Dell and Samsung do with their companion services. But I am very impressed with the Dell DJ, which is less expensive than the iPod, yet has roughly double the battery life and a very clean user interface that borrows a lot from the iPod itself."
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Naturally emulating features found on the iPod, but the thing is just like the iTms, Apple will make it work and the rest will simply copy/ride the coat tails of Apple.
It's not as though dell has original ideas, so it's expected that others will compete. If there were no iPods believe me, dell wouldn't bother coz they wouldn't think of it.
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Dell has yet to have an original idea. They follow the market,
and pretend they do it better than everyone through their
commercials... it is smoke and mirrors...
The 'Dell engineers' must be smoken something funny,
and snorting something off of mirrors...
Has anyone seen the new MP3 player by AP..DELL.?
It is a poor man's IPOD....
Sad.
very sad.
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Then again, Dell's always been really good at following Apple's footsteps.
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Hey, maybe Apple Lawyers should take a stab at it... :P
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However, there is an issue that the iPod and, more importantly, Apple's iTMS is still quite vulnerable on - the ACC file incompatibility and lack of adoption by non-Apple portable music players.
iPods are the only portable devices that can play the ACC file format without a questionable (in terms of quality of sound) and necessary conversion to the MP3, WAV or AIFF format for use with auto CD players and existing non-iPod devices. I worry that like the agressive marketing moves and now apparent dominance by the DVD+R format (anyone noticed the incredible deals on +R blank media and almost total LACK of deals on -R media?) a similar "incompatibility " of the ACC format could really hurt Apple - and eventually iPod sales in the long run.
It seems to me that Apple could once again be facing the issue where a cheaper and more widely adopted "standard" and agressively marketed software (MP3) eventually gives rise to a hardware market domination by it's competitors. Clearly, ACC is superior in every respect to MP3 - however wasn't the same true for the original MacOS versis Windows?
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Why is it that the new Dell DJ and the Samsung are not being criticized for their obvious lack of support for AAC?
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VERSUS not VERSIS
sorry.
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