Posted on 11/01/2005 12:26:00 PM PST by Panerai
To Hell with Dell.
replace broken Optiplex? Wha happen?.......
Dell To Jobs: Shut Down Apple
(10/06/97; 4:00 p.m. EDT)
By David Braun, TechWire
ORLANDO, Fla. -- What would Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell do if he should wake up one morning as Steve Jobs, acting CEO of Apple Computer? Clearly a fate too ghastly to contemplate, Dell at first attempted to duck the question, put to him Monday by a panel of analysts here at the Gartner Group's conference on the future of information technology.
"I hope that will never happen to me," Dell said. But just pretend he WAS Steve Jobs, what would he do, the interrogators persisted.
"I would shut down Apple and give the shareholders their money back," Dell said, to a mixture of applause and boos from the more than 7,000 IT managers in the audience.
Apples fortunes aren't rising because Dell's are sinking. Dells are sinking because Apple is wiping the floor with all PC manufacterers. Apple is making a high quality product that works, while the others are all still bogged down in the same old technology running the same old Microsoft, bug laden, virus inviting, tired operating system. Hold a Powerbook G4 in one hand and any other laptop in your other hand you can see the difference.
8 years is a long time to hold a grudge.
My Dell from Hell turned me into a Mac user, and I've never looked back.
They'd have to pry my Powerbook G4 out of my cold, dead fingers.
This is why Apple wins. Dell doesn't even recognize their competition as having something worth competing against. You can't win until you recognize what your competitor has and try to do it better.
"8 years is a long time to hold a grudge."
Hell, who's holding a grudge? Here we have a thread, eight years later, with the tables nearly completely turned. I thought it was a pertinent quote to include, myself.
During my last problem, phone techy said I needed a new sound card and insisted he send someone over to install it. What showed up at my door was an unshaven Indian national who smelled like a perfume factory....(turns out I didn't need the card.)
I recently talked my son out of buying one of these pieces of crap. I think I will return to building my own.
Now that's product loyalty! But, I totally agree. They didn't have to pry my Dell from my hands, I tossed it before I went out and bought a powerbook G4.
LOL. That's exactly what happened to me. After 18 months of dealing with what Dell so hilariously calls "tech support".
My comment was somewhat in jest but I will disagree with "the tables nearly completely turned". Dell earned $14B in reveneue as opposed to Apple's < $4B.
indeed, that is what is killing them. offshored tech support.
I hate to tell you, but I bet if you crunch the numbers, its Apple's iPod and iTunes store sales that are fueling it financial numbers, not the computer sales. My Thinkpad runs as well or better than any Apple powerbook ever made, and I bought the TP after extensive comparisons with the PB. And the knock on Microsoft is tiresome.
"And the knock on Microsoft is tiresome."
Tiresome it may well be, but undeserved it's not.
You can't name one problem I've had on my PCs running Windows in the last 5 years that you haven't had on your Mac.
NOT ONE.
Shhh! Don't feed the bears!
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