Dell CEO jabs at Apple, forgets how to count

@Splashman

I agree with most of what you are saying. But I beleive that Apple will lower their prices as it becomes more economically feasable to make quality machines. Raising their prices puts them back in the position of being more expensive for less bang.

Tho, I so very much want to see Macs become the best bargain for the byte. Price is a big turn off right now for many users.

Looks like Dell should shut down and give the money back to the shareholders...

#6 > "do you really think it's fair to characterize Michael Dell's comments as a jab?"

He's probably thinking of the sentiment behind the "Apple should close its doors and give the money back to the shareholders" quote, which most certainly was a painful jab, and may justify being a bit critical of the utterer's subsequent comments.

I think the Steve remembers it too, or he wouldn't have sent the company-wide email earlier this year pointing out the market cap of AAPL had exceeded that of DELL.

Splashman said what I would have. As he and other commenters have pointed out, entries that misrepresent what the source material says undermine the credibility of the blogger who writes them.

under the umbrella of zune there will be multiple devices, like a game boy and small movie player. It will do OK but not take over more than 20% of iPods market.

Sorry, DELL has everything to gain and nothing to lose by running OSX.

The only reason why Dell said they'd run OSX is to please Mac fanboys and put the pressure on Jobs to open up the operating system to include non-Apple hardware. Jobs has everything to gain and nothing to lose by running OSX. He doesn't give a rat's ass about Apple as a competitor to Dell in terms of selling PCs. Apple is, and will continue to be, a very, very tiny marketshare. You can act all smug and think that dangling OSX in front of Dell's face will make him scared or jealous, but the reality is Dell couldn't give a shit about that. What he might be worried about, though, is Apple's ability to integrate music/video/photo into the OS and monopolize the industry like they have with iPods. That scares many people, including me, a Mac user.

The real thread to Mackie Dull is HP! Get it? HP. My IT department is dumping Dull in favor of HP due to poor customer service from Dull! Even some of my co-workers who did not care what kind of box they get are moving toward HP. Once the heard mentality stats switching in mass, Mackie Dull will be in trouble staying on top. The same 10, 20 years rule will apply to every one, even Dull and MicroSh#t!

And on a completely unrelated topic: Do TUAW contributors get paid by the post?

David Chartier needs to do his homework Dell's CEO is Kevin Rollins... Well for now it is