Is it wrong that I enjoy the struggles of Dell?
Dell Trails Its Rivals in the Worst of Times – NYTimes.com.
It’d be easy, to oh, you know suggest they shut down and return the money to their shareholders like Mr. Dell suggested Apple do 11 years ago. But I won’t go that far. After all Dell has thousands of employees, and is a Texas company – so I hope the company can do well again.
I always thought Michael Dell’s statement about Apple just showed him to very obtuse – Dell was and is and always will be just another maker of PCs. He can differentiate with price, support, and maybe a little with design. Apple, was and is for whatever reason, one of the trail blazers of the consumer tech world.
If Apple had shut down 11 years ago, think of all the things we’d have missed. OS X, the iPod, the iPhone. What exactly would the universe be missing if Dell Computer had just disappeared instead?
