Dell’s iPod clone, the DJ, dropped in price this week from $249 to $199 for the 15GB version and $299 to $279 for the 20GB. While the DJ isn’t quite the status symbol the iPod is, it does, you know, play music, and its battery life is usually around twice of the iPod’s.
Good thing the player prices are dropping, too, because music downloads are slowly creeping up in price. The WSJ has a story on the increasing album prices on services like iTunes and Napster, despite the fact that retail prices for the albums are far lower than what they sell for online. I guess that’s what happens when you let a company set the price for its album on services that have little competition (not counting free P2P services like Kazaa).
