Posted on 11/24/2015 8:42:13 AM PST by Swordmaker
"Don't Think Different. . . Think Same!"
That mind-closing statement is just one from the upcoming biopic, "Michael Dell."
When a confused and obviously new-on-the-job Dell "engineer" shows Michael Dell the latest plastic Windows PC box to emerge from the Dell "labs," and is told to just start shipping it without even turning it on, the confused sap asks, "Bu, but, we need to make it great?"
In a nearly memorable emotional highlight, Dell responds with brutal clarity, "No! You need to make it cheap!"
Later, in the film’s most revealing line, Dell discloses his company’s entire raison d'etre, the driving force behind all of its products:
"I don't know. Doesn't matter. Nothing matters."
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Wrong Conan clip.
A long, long time ago, a guy I know interviewed at a company. Place was running out of the back of a warehouse, workshop was planks laid on sawhorses, office furniture was lawn folding chairs. Guy took one look and said, "Forget this.....". He threw the interview.
Place turned out to be Dell. He'd have been the 8th or 9th person in. 20-odd (more??) years later, he's still kicking himself over it. :-)
Here is the link....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeiI8cd5rO4
(”We’ve got to make these laptops thick, with the fans in the back”)
If it’s a Pentium 4, that would be a good thing. Otherwise it would be too hot to actually use it on your lap.
Gateway started in a barn
new report out today that dell is installing something- can’t remember what- but it compromises user’s security/info- it’s kinda like awhile ago when computers had tracking software installed- or cameras or something- without the user’s knowledge-
I didn’t pay too much attention to article unfortunately- so don’t know the specifics- but did note it was causing an uproar, and rightfully so
Will this be coming out before or after the movie “Living history” celebrating Hillary which I believe is coming out in September of 2016 starring Julia Roberts as Hillary?
Place turned out to be Dell. He'd have been the 8th or 9th person in. 20-odd (more??) years later, he's still kicking himself over it. :-)
I knew a VC who entertained a couple of long-haired hippies showing him a motherboard and taking big and asking for money. One of them literally stunk with BO. He was incredulous and got rid of them. Yep - Jobs and Woz.
I knew the guy who turned-down being badge # 9 at DEC. Talk about decades of kicking himself. I also saw an interview on TV of the guy who had the opportunity to buy 1/3 of Microsoft for $50,000. “I think about that a lot,” he said.
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Dude...I won’t be getting this Dell.
Not even from Redbox.
Thank you for that triple listing; I just pinged the Windows list on the third one. :-)
Sorry, my point was that he’s still kicking himself, too.
Genius doesn’t look like the movies.
There are many different strategies that can succeed in a free market. (Oh how I wish we had one!)
You can go with quality, with quantity, with value, with low price, with great service. There isn’t a single magic formula. I don’t fault Dell for making things affordable. They gave the consumer something he wanted.
I like my Macs better than my PCs, but I have both because each fills a niche. Also, the Microsofts and the Dells are part of the tech ecosystem that keeps Apple innovative. If they had no competition, they would just rake in the money with no pressure for new R&D.
Master of the understatement. :-)
Buddy of mine got in on the Google IPO, and tried to get me to buy at - IIRC - $70.
"No", I said, "Waste of Money."
Meh, C'est la vie. :-)
I met the Founder of Gateway.
A really nice guy and now travels the USA in a RV.
He didn’t have kind words to say about Dell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeiI8cd5rO4
It's "Laugh at Dell Day", a little humor at Dell's expense... PING!
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
One of the three founders of apple
“Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) is a retired American electronics industry worker. He co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, providing administrative oversight for the new venture. He soon, however, sold his share of the new company for $800 US dollars, and later accepted $1,500 to forfeit any claims against Apple.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Wayne
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