The Sky Is Falling! Dell Is Selling iPods!!!
Dell sells rival Apple's iPods
Ian Fried, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, News.com
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In a case of strange bedfellows, Dell Computer has started selling Apple Computer's iPod portable music player, CNET News.com has learned.
Dell Computer will carry just the Windows versions of the iPod, with some models currently available for order by phone from Dell. Web sales of the digital music player are expected to start shortly.
"Yep, Dell is reselling iPods," Apple said in a statement provided to CNET News.com. "We are delighted to offer our 5GB, 10GB and 20GB iPods for Windows through Dell's direct retail channel. iPod has been a big success to date, and we would like to make it even bigger."
Apparently the draw of Dell's online store for Apple and the lure of the iPod for Dell were enough to convince the bitter rivals to set aside their differences. The two companies compete especially hard in the education market, where Dell has moved ahead of the Mac maker to become the largest seller of computer gear to schools.
iPod on Target
Separately, Apple on Wednesday confirmed plans to start selling the iPod at all 1,100-plus Target stores beginning this week, in a move aimed at broadening distribution of the digital music player.
As previously reported, Target will be selling both Mac and Windows versions of the iPod, with all stores stocking 10GB versions of both Mac and Windows.
"We're thrilled that Target will significantly expand the availability of Apple's award-winning iPod to even more customers," Tim Cook, an Apple executive vice president, said in a statement. Apple plans to place a working iPod on display in every Target store.
Analysts say strong sales of the iPod could help Apple beat its financial goals for the current quarter, despite the sluggish economy.
"It could sort of save the December quarter, given the sorry state of home PC sales," Needham analyst Charles Wolf said last week. Adding a retailer like Target is key to reaching more potential buyers, Wolf said.
Wolf estimated that Apple might be able to sell as many as half a million of the devices this quarter, assuming that the company can grab about 15 percent of the world market for portable music players and that sales reach the 4 million units that some market researchers are projecting.
In September, Apple said that electronics retailer Best Buy would carry the iPod.
Ian Fried, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, News.com
update
In a case of strange bedfellows, Dell Computer has started selling Apple Computer's iPod portable music player, CNET News.com has learned.
Dell Computer will carry just the Windows versions of the iPod, with some models currently available for order by phone from Dell. Web sales of the digital music player are expected to start shortly.
"Yep, Dell is reselling iPods," Apple said in a statement provided to CNET News.com. "We are delighted to offer our 5GB, 10GB and 20GB iPods for Windows through Dell's direct retail channel. iPod has been a big success to date, and we would like to make it even bigger."
Apparently the draw of Dell's online store for Apple and the lure of the iPod for Dell were enough to convince the bitter rivals to set aside their differences. The two companies compete especially hard in the education market, where Dell has moved ahead of the Mac maker to become the largest seller of computer gear to schools.
iPod on Target
Separately, Apple on Wednesday confirmed plans to start selling the iPod at all 1,100-plus Target stores beginning this week, in a move aimed at broadening distribution of the digital music player.
As previously reported, Target will be selling both Mac and Windows versions of the iPod, with all stores stocking 10GB versions of both Mac and Windows.
"We're thrilled that Target will significantly expand the availability of Apple's award-winning iPod to even more customers," Tim Cook, an Apple executive vice president, said in a statement. Apple plans to place a working iPod on display in every Target store.
Analysts say strong sales of the iPod could help Apple beat its financial goals for the current quarter, despite the sluggish economy.
"It could sort of save the December quarter, given the sorry state of home PC sales," Needham analyst Charles Wolf said last week. Adding a retailer like Target is key to reaching more potential buyers, Wolf said.
Wolf estimated that Apple might be able to sell as many as half a million of the devices this quarter, assuming that the company can grab about 15 percent of the world market for portable music players and that sales reach the 4 million units that some market researchers are projecting.
In September, Apple said that electronics retailer Best Buy would carry the iPod.
Comments
"Hell has officially frozen over."
Maybe Apple will become a company that only produces the iPod and other digital lifestyle devices.
It's like Microsoft selling Oracle software!!!
"Dude, you're getting.. an iPod! ...but you're fired!"
Screed
Crow T. Robot: "Madness! Madness!"
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I'm starting to take that seriously...
[Addendum]
From <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020827_9548.htm"; target="_blank">Business Week Online</a>:
[quote] Tech-data tracker IDC has forecast 2003 sales of 25 million portable digital-music players with total revenues of $5 billion. Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Co., predicts that Apple could capture as much as 20% of that market, especially if the iPod becomes a must-have Christmas item in the absence of other cool tech toys. (Wolf owns Apple stock, and Needham makes a market in Apple shares.) That would translate into $1 billion in annual revenues and $130 million in profits.<hr></blockquote>
Screed
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Now watch AAPL go up to like $17.50-18.00
Should've bought at 13.60. "D'oH!"
Look at Sony kicking ass in the PDA space with over 10% of the market! And they aren't the most affordable do-dads either, but they sell. I think it's time for Apple to make a PDA. Yes, they're rather pointless, but people like to buy them, so why not sell some. And for heavens sake, a digital Camera please. It's time, the market is growing all the time, plenty of room for everyone, and lots of people willing to pay to upgrade.
<a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/03.marketshare.php"; target="_blank">http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0207/03.marketshare.php</a>;
Yeah, it means 2 things to me: 1. it's really popular and they want to milk it for all it's worth, and 2. this might be some kind of grand experiment into making more of these accessories and getting away a bit from the Mac/"we sell the whole widget" philosophy. It just makes me curious about what else they're thinking about, because they probably don't want to make the iPod a one hit wonder with the kind of success they're having with it.
<strong>Sometimes, profits win over pride. Even Jobs's.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually I'd say it's Dell's pride. Apple isn't selling Dell's products. Its like Apple is saying, look how good our product is, even Dell wants to sell it.
So I'm sure Jobs feels pretty good about that.
Dell is plenty smart, what he has, he scratched and clawed for. Jobs, OTOH, is extremely lucky to have found himself in the right place at the right time, the rest of his career has been basically to trade on his own, ill deserved, reputation as a luminary.
Apple is not nearly as healthy as their bank account suggests.
<strong>Or why not sell a few now, and have a cheaper knock-off ready to go next season?
Dell is plenty smart, what he has, he scratched and clawed for. Jobs, OTOH, is extremely lucky to have found himself in the right place at the right time, the rest of his career has been basically to trade on his own, ill deserved, reputation as a luminary.
Apple is not nearly as healthy as their bank account suggests.</strong><hr></blockquote>
if I didn't know better I would think that you were a bot and the above was your automated response to everything
Apple's christmas season looks pretty good this year, best buy, target, and now dell
how well do you think apple stock will do?
apple has done it again though...iMac was a giant success, and I think the iPod was just as big or bigger respectivly scaled from a computer market to digital device. do you think apple could do this again with another digital device?
Your insights into Apple are as screwy as that guy that said the company would go to Intel processors next year.
I remember when the iPod came out there were a bunch of surverys on how well Mac users, in general, thought it would do. Half of the people thought it would fail. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />