Comments on: Two Stupid Comments From Two Different PC Executives In One Day

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:23:02 +0000

PS – sorry about the spelling errors above. I am about to go to work and I don’t have much time 🙂

By: John

John — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:21:04 +0000

I am not sure I would call someone “bone headed” and point out their facuasl inaccuacies so readily if I were you. You too made quite significant factual arror. The statements you quoted were made in Australia and the top ‘o the line here is $939 not %699 despite the UA$ being close to parity at the moment. True, still short of the 1.5k but much closer than you think. What irks us here is that Apple is not the only one gouging the Australian market. When the $au drops the wholesale price always (and I mean always) rises quoteingt the strengthening US$ but when the AU$ rises again companies such as Apple and Sony never, and I mean NEVER make commensurate drops in wholsale prices to the extent that there is now a huige difference between pricese here and elsewhere. But bompanies such as Dell do alter their WS prices to make them much more competitive. So to Australians his statement is not so far-fetched.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:14:01 +0000

Ba-Zing!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:44:50 +0000

I can’t say where I heard things… but Dell (and others) aren’t just sitting around. Their R&D teams are busy. Look reality is Microsoft has missed the bus on this one completely, thinking they don’t need a mobile OS aside from Windows 7. But that doesn’t mean traditionally Microsoft based vendors (like Dell) are sitting around waiting for Microsoft to point the ship in the right direction.

Android will be the prominent OS for the vast majority of upcoming products from those vendors and I would expect that the 2nd half of the year will see a big push in the tablet space, despite comments from their leadership in the opposite. The problem I see is vendors like Dell hitting a price point that makes their offerings a viable alternative to Apple. Dell makes solid products for cheap – but can they match what Apple is doing? Based upon the Streak 7″ … my guess is no. From what I’ve been hearing, they are playing catch up right now and until they have a product they feel they can compete with, I would expect to keep hearing the same old rhetoric.