Dell selling iPod competitors

Dell, which once was one of the Apple's ally, is now selling the closest competitor to the Apple iPod video -- the Creative Labs Zen Vision.

Dell is selling the product in the price range of $249 to $349, although the capacity of the players is still not at the same level of Apple's offer.

It is interesting to see that Dell has chosen to compete with Apple using a third part player, since they probably have capacity to produce cheap mp3 player units. Probably Dell figured out that it would be difficult to compete with the iPod on volume and decided to stay out of this area, and just observe what Creative Labs can do.