Dell dumps line of hard drive-based MP3 players, nobody notices for over a month
Monday, February 06, 2006 - 11:54 AM EDT"Dell has dropped its line of hard drive-based MP3 players, but it's taken more than a month for anyone to notice. The absence of the Pocket Digital Jukebox players from Dell's website was spotted last week by Bloomberg. The news agency asked Dell about it and learned the products were canned late December/early January, it reported," Tony Smith reports for The Register.
"Apple continues to dominate the market. In the US, it has a market share of around 70 per cent. Creative and Samsung have under ten per cent apiece, so there's not much left for all the other player providers, of whom there are many, Dell among them," Smith reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews reader "Peter G." for the link.]
MacDailyNews Take: This reminds us of when RealNetworks "Harmony" hack stopped working on iPods, but nobody noticed for a month and a half either.
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