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.
Here’s the original citation:
http://news.cnet.com/Dell-Apple-should-close-shop/2100-1001_3-203937.html
October 6, 1997 2:00 PM PDT
Dell: Apple should close shop
By Jai Singh
Staff Writer, CNET News
ORLANDO, Florida—When it comes to the state of Apple Computer, everyone has an opinion.
And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one.
“What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders,” Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.
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Michael Dell should follow his own advice. Apple is worth over FOUR times what Dell is right now.