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September 22, 2005

iPod Shuffle vs Dell Ditty

Now that Apple have introduced something even better than the iPod Shuffle, it is time for the idjits to try cloning the shuffle - just to demonstrate that they are waaaaaaay behind the times. One of this idjits is Dell who have released the "Ditty" which, as Daring Fireball points out, Rhymes With ShDitty:
See news item that Dell had released a new flash-memory-based music player to compete against the iPod Shuffle: the Dell DJ Ditty. ... Note vague resemblance to a 50-cent Bic lighter
Of course the article goes into a lot more detail including this absolute gem of a quote:
Follow footnote to see explanation that this storage estimate requires encoding songs as 64 kbps WMA, which bit rate is half that of Apple’s default of 128 kbps AAC, and roughly equivalent in fidelity to that of transmissions carried over tin cans and string, but which, perhaps, is not a dirty marketing trick, but, rather, a fair assessment, considering that anyone with such profoundly bad taste in industrial design who would consider purchasing this device probably also has such bad taste in music as not to notice that their 64 kbps-compressed songs sound like mush.

Posted by Ozguru at September 22, 2005 12:30 PM

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