Are they finally planning to take Michael Dell's advice to Steve Jobs and Apple to heart?
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The important things now are the operating system and application software. Dell has nothing to offer there. They failed to invest in the future, and they've missed their chance to bring something innovative and compelling to the market.
Instead, Dell is planning on bringing out a new iPod competitor by bringing back the Dell DJ name. That’s going to work well... not.
Wasn’t one of Michael Dell’s criticisms of Apple and one of the “sure signs of failure” that Apple didn’t own a significant number of factories? Well, if Dell sells off their factories, they should probably just fold up shop and give the money back to their shareholders. I mean, that’s what Michael Dell said in the past that he’d do with another company if it was in a similar situation....
They tried to muscle in on the business support services against HP and IBM. But I think they had to admit that the push had failed. They were hoping to expand into other parts of the business to create reoccurring revenue that IBM gets so fat on. But without big Unix servers that run production databases like IBM, Sun and HP they didn’t have a chance. More businesses on the Windows side are just buying the hardware than slapping VMWare ESX on top. So I would assume the number of Windows Server licenses purchased from Dell has shrunk thus negating the need for Dell Server Support other than hardware warranty. Essentially they are becoming just a hardware only company.
Perhaps they should think about buying out Canonical so that they have a Linux version to push support contracts on.
Are they finally planning to take Michael Dell's advice to Steve Jobs and Apple to heart?
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One way I’ve seen it put goes something like, ‘It’s difficult to make a living with a product that has the same markup as bananas.’ Apple is beating with better products.
Ouch. I wonder what’s going to happen with those huge tax incentives cities gave them to build there to create local jobs — that now may be going away.
Like dominoes the US PC vendors are falling to the Asians. IBM sells it’s PC division to the Chicomm government, Gateway to Acer, Dell will now be outsourcing everything too it appears. Once the Asians get good at design even that will start leaving our shores.