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Dell to Try to Take on Apple's Online Music Dominance?

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BusinessWeek reports on an upcoming plan from Dell to try to topple Apple's dominance in digital downloads.

The threat is being spearheaded by a former Apple executive Tim Bucher who left Apple on bad terms:
According to a lawsuit later filed by Bucher, Jobs said: "People think you are sometimes manic-depressive.... I think I'm going to have to ask you to leave the company." Bucher was stunned: He'd been promoted only a few months earlier. Bucher left Apple but soon sued for wrongful termination. He says the charges of mental illness are "completely false."
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Bucher has since taken a job with Dell and is leading a 120 person team to counter Apple's current dominance in online music and movie distribution.

Dell is reportedly working on standardizing a system across computers, mobile phones and online music sites to provide a universal system for digital distribution.
Central to Dell's plan is software acquired a year ago when it bought Zing, the company Bucher founded after leaving Apple. The software handles behind-the-scenes translations so that content can be "zinged" between computers and other compatible devices. Dell hopes to announce the Zing software as a feature on small, cheap laptops expected in September and to have the software installed on all of its consumer PCs by the end of the year.
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Details remain sketchy but some analysts are understandably skeptical about Dell's chances. Dell is expected to unveil details of their plan in September.

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Hmm...

Doesn't sound like cheery news, but probably doesn't go anywhere.
 
Dell could never be a threat to Apple's music industry...and the whole "revenge" thing is really dumb.
 
It looks like this Dell Mp3 Player is backed by some pretty smart minds... Though I think it will FAIL.... Nothing has really put a dent in Apple's market share.... And their have been some attempts that haven't gone so well... A.K.A. The Zune
 
This should come easy seeing Michael Dell wants Apple to hand out all it's stock back out to share holders because Apple is failing.
 
I think we've heard this song from Dell before.

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I'm actually curious as to what their plan is... since amazingly enough even though Apple makes Macs their software (iTunes) is on the majority of PCs!
 
iTeen said:
Dell could never be a threat to Apple's music industry...and the whole "revenge" thing is really dumb.
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I agree.... It's like saying Apple will take over Dell and HP in PC sells! (Seems reasonable with Apple's 73% market share)
 
"People think you are sometimes manic-depressive.... I think I'm going to have to ask you to leave the company."
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Lol Funny, i could so see Steve saying that.
 
competition is a good thing but, really, I only see it as everybody else just playing catch up.
 
I'm usually all for these types of things (MS Mojave Experiment) but this sounds just plain stupid.
 
Hmm... Napster, Rhapsody, PlaysForSure, Zune. Good luck to you and your merry band of 120 adventurers; I hope your quest is successful.

At least you have the cachet of the Dell brand on your side. And I have found your 121st employee:

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From a serious perspective, what is it about these people that prevents them ALL from understanding that the music downloads and superior software are just loss leaders that help sell HARDWARE?

Duuude, take a memo:

No compelling hardware = permafail, guaranteed

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I'd be happy if they could list artists correctly, I know Apple can't, often doubling the same artist and having their recordings split due to a letter capitalisation. :mad:
 
I've always seen Dell as a reseller and not an innovator.

People are happy with iTunes and apple and are not looking for an alternative.
 
this is inta-fail simply because dell seems to have the wrong mindset

See a famous line by steve jobs "For apple to succeed, microsoft DOES NOT have to fail"

Once apple adopted that mindset, notice how much smoother things started to go?

See right now dell is thinking they need to take down apple... and why?? almost for pety revenge, honestly the guy who came up with this idea must be crazy... once again steve proves his ability to pick out bad employees.

Its simply not gonna happen, and dell is stupid for trying
 
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