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August 24, 2006

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Ding dong, the DJ Ditty is dead!

Posted Aug. 24, ’06, 10:16 AM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Apple » Rivals

That’s right, the DJ Ditty is gone forever. I’m really, really sad inside. Aren’t you?

IDG News Service:

When DJ Ditty was first announced last September, Dell had hoped that the player’s monochrome display and support of Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio format would give it a leg up on the iPod Shuffle.

Dell claimed that with the Windows media format, the player could hold nearly twice as many songs as a comparable iPod Shuffle.

Game over, fellas.


2 Comments

macnuke said:

0 x 2 = 0

simple math.

August 24, 2006 6:14 PM
jwbjerk said:

As i recall, it could hold more songs, IF you encoded them at (something like) 64KBPS compared to the iTunes standard of 128KBPS. Not a very compelling reason to buy an uglier product.

Don't worry, i'm sure we'll be hearing about many more iPod-killers in the years to come.

August 24, 2006 7:18 PM

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