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Dell Stops Selling iPods.
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Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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December 19, 2003
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Byline: Amy Schatz
Dec. 19--There are many places to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s popular iPod digital music players this holiday season. But Dell.com is no longer one of them.
Round Rock-based Dell Inc. stopped reselling Apple's iPods in mid-November, about two weeks after the company launched its own competing MP3 player.
"We've stopped selling them permanently," said Mary Fad, a Dell spokeswoman.
Both Apple and Dell declined to explain why the two companies scrapped their reselling agreement.
"The iPod is the number one digital music player on the market and is available at thousands of retail locations and online," Apple said in a statement. "As a ...