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Daring Fireball on Dell's Ditty

daring fireball logoLast week Dell released the DJ Ditty, a $99 512 MB shuffle competitor with a screen and FM tuner. Hot on its heels, John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame has put together a great commentary that is part research, part speculation, and a whole lot of humor, poking fun at a device he doesn't think Dell is even proud of. Check it out, and have yet another nerdy laugh at the expense of Dell's products.
 

Last week Dell released the DJ Ditty, a $99 512 MB shuffle competitor with a screen and FM tuner. Hot on its heels, John Gruber of Daring...
 

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jimmie

I can write what I want,lol. What does my writing about the Hamptons have anything to do with DJ Ditty? If he has a place out in the Hamptons then he has some good taste. I just find it funny that Dell obviously named this referring to him, I just don't think he is that influential. Sorry if you're a fan.

September 22 2005 at 7:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
glad

#2 Mmmm I am not sure if you should be having a laff at P. Diddy's ever changing name and then a few articles before tell everyone about your weekend in the Hamptons, which if I am not mistaken is where (P) Diddy has a place.

September 22 2005 at 5:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Splashman

Gruber's spot-on. And I can't help but hope that eventually (give it another 100 years or so) Apple's efforts at raising the bar will start to pay off. We'll know it's happened when Dell, Microsoft & Sony release a product which Mac owners might actually consider purchasing. Now stop laughing -- yes, I'm an incurable optimist, but it could happen, couldn't it? Couldn't it?

September 21 2005 at 8:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jimmie

I find this very humorous as well. I had to write about it. Here's my link: http://www.gadgetsonthego.net/2005/09/meet-dj-ditty.html Dells needs to just bury this.

September 21 2005 at 8:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Noah Dylan Goldblatt

I find it humorous that Apple is so easily able to defend even its mass market, plastic, non-clickwheel iPod shuffle against the Dell on this one. Apple's marketing department must have spent weeks thinking up how to pitch listening to music completely randomly as a positive. Now Dell goes and wastes that marketing push and tosses in an impossibly small, yet very un-nano, screen that nobody cares to read. And how could anyone believe that a Dell engraving adjacent to a Dell splashscreen looked good? Can anyone imagine someone proud to own one of these?

September 21 2005 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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