Daring Fireball’s take on the Dell DJ Ditty
This post was published 4 years 2 months 1 day ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Quite simply the best analysis of Apple Shuffle’s competition: The Dell Ditty.
1. See news item that Dell had released a new flash-memory-based music player to compete against the iPod Shuffle: the Dell DJ Ditty.
2. Note that no picture of said Ditty accompanies news item.
3. Visit dell.com.
4. Note that no picture of said Ditty appears on front page of dell.com, even after several reloads to cycle through random promotional images.
11. Note vague resemblance to a 50-cent Bic lighter:
13. 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.
