It seems that Dell is going to make another run at the music player business. Last year, year Dell acquired a little music software outfit called Zing which in 2006 was demonstrating a concept design that essentially put Wi-Fi streaming inside a portable player, thus giving it the ability to, among other things, play Sirius streams.
One of our favorite things is to listen streams from Last.fm and Padora and Sirius streams aren't on the iTunes App Store. The good thing about Dell that it may work with Rhapsody, which isn't a bad service at all and also to include streaming capabilities, or might launch it's own music service.
If it supports MP3 music files, as it presumably would, it would support music sold on Rhapsody, Amazon, eMusic and whoever else has decided to go the MP3 route. The problem, will of course, come down to marketing and positioning aganst Apple, and we all know how that tends to work out.
It could be a trial balloon meant to test market potential. It’s not like Dell doesn’t have on its plate, though CEO Michael Dell is promising a “big second half” of the year. A music player won’t get Dell there, that much is certain.
One of our favorite things is to listen streams from Last.fm and Padora and Sirius streams aren't on the iTunes App Store. The good thing about Dell that it may work with Rhapsody, which isn't a bad service at all and also to include streaming capabilities, or might launch it's own music service.If it supports MP3 music files, as it presumably would, it would support music sold on Rhapsody, Amazon, eMusic and whoever else has decided to go the MP3 route. The problem, will of course, come down to marketing and positioning aganst Apple, and we all know how that tends to work out.
It could be a trial balloon meant to test market potential. It’s not like Dell doesn’t have on its plate, though CEO Michael Dell is promising a “big second half” of the year. A music player won’t get Dell there, that much is certain.
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