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Dell to Try to Take on Apple's Online Music Dominance?
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The competition clause in Bucher's Apple contract will ensure that they (Dell) will only be able to use his "excellent leading and innovation skills" as opposed to some nice and juicy Apple secrets to develop their service or Apple will shred them to pieces. Especially after this dumb public revenge announcement..
Good luck to Dell. Dell customers buy their computers for their cheapness, not for a wholesome software, hardware and cloudware (did I just invent that word?) multimedia experience.
edit: just checked: didn't invent cloudware, Damn!
Good luck to Dell. Dell customers buy their computers for their cheapness, not for a wholesome software, hardware and cloudware (did I just invent that word?) multimedia experience.
edit: just checked: didn't invent cloudware, Damn!
Sorry, NO.
They did NOT make a good computer, they made cheap computers with very BAD customer service. They still do.
Get real here - all Dell has EVER done is buy cheap components and load Windows on to the thing.
They cant write software, they dont actually design or build hardware, just cases.
This Dell music idea is the biggest crock since the last big crock.
Zing. Dell. Enough said - its not even real, its vapourware of the worst kind.
Shouldnt even be a thread.
And to quote from a post on another Mac site:
'Dell writing software? That's an interesting concept. And a novel one as well. Dell has as much experience writing software as Elvis did.'
Lets see, Dell's getting a lot of bad press lately; so they want to try to compete. the fact that someone Got fired and a competitor picked them up smells like NDA, trade secret, and intellectual right fraud, if it can be proven. But the only way it will hold out is if he went strait to Dell right after Apple and did not wait a year. Most non-competes state you must wait a year after leaving a company before going to a direct competitor - but we do not know the full terms of his contract and letting go. Plus anything can be fought.
But seriously, I can see this Mp3 player will have a bunch of random parts like Dell's laptops:
Samsung Screen
WD harddrive
Phillips DVDS burner
Kingston memory
Online App store and music store, oh that is a laugh. there is too much competition right now start another one. Beside itunes got the market on PC's and Mac's. I can just see it now, more trial bloatware on a PC to clog up disk spaces and resources. And if it is from Dell, expect crappy support.
But seriously, I can see this Mp3 player will have a bunch of random parts like Dell's laptops:
Samsung Screen
WD harddrive
Phillips DVDS burner
Kingston memory
Online App store and music store, oh that is a laugh. there is too much competition right now start another one. Beside itunes got the market on PC's and Mac's. I can just see it now, more trial bloatware on a PC to clog up disk spaces and resources. And if it is from Dell, expect crappy support.
Oh yeah, didnt Micky Dell say Apple should be closed down and the cash given to the shareholders?
And we are wishing this jackass good luck? WHY?
Dell should be gone in 3 years anyway - their short game of cheap crap is over.
Dell is NOT 'competition', Dell is a nasty PC co. that has held back the industry along with Micro$oft for years.
Plus they have hired Enderle - a man with very little skill or sense.
I am actually angry that so many here think its all ok - these people are trying to drag us back into the 70's with the record biz selling us rubbish for high prices.
THINK, will ya?
And we are wishing this jackass good luck? WHY?
Dell should be gone in 3 years anyway - their short game of cheap crap is over.
Dell is NOT 'competition', Dell is a nasty PC co. that has held back the industry along with Micro$oft for years.
Plus they have hired Enderle - a man with very little skill or sense.
I am actually angry that so many here think its all ok - these people are trying to drag us back into the 70's with the record biz selling us rubbish for high prices.
THINK, will ya?
Oh and another thing
Dell does have software for diagnosis and PC tune ups.
too bad the dang thing diables your mouse, and then asks you to click continue or cancel... HA HA HA HA HA = Dell writing software.
Wait!!!! I remember a bunch of rolling bilboards travelling around laster year with some math mumbo jumbo on it (in the style of how Einstein did equations), and at the bottom it said "Understand this? then you should apply to work at Dell in Texas."
IBM was pissed because the rolling billboard was trolling around Research Triangle Park in Durham just outside their doorsteps.
The city of Winston-Salem was pissed, because they paid huge incentives to get Dell to build a plant here, to create jobs in an otherwise high unemployment area. Then to have a rolling billboard to lead people to Texas, after the plant was up and running....
I was looking for a job a few years ago, and I tried to get a job at Dell. I was told I was over-qualified; they only do hiring through cattle-calls (ie mass job fairs), and they only hire programmers from within.
Of course knowing how they lay off and re-higher every couple of months to a year - I am glad I didn't get to work for them.
Dell does have software for diagnosis and PC tune ups.
too bad the dang thing diables your mouse, and then asks you to click continue or cancel... HA HA HA HA HA = Dell writing software.
Wait!!!! I remember a bunch of rolling bilboards travelling around laster year with some math mumbo jumbo on it (in the style of how Einstein did equations), and at the bottom it said "Understand this? then you should apply to work at Dell in Texas."
IBM was pissed because the rolling billboard was trolling around Research Triangle Park in Durham just outside their doorsteps.
The city of Winston-Salem was pissed, because they paid huge incentives to get Dell to build a plant here, to create jobs in an otherwise high unemployment area. Then to have a rolling billboard to lead people to Texas, after the plant was up and running....
I was looking for a job a few years ago, and I tried to get a job at Dell. I was told I was over-qualified; they only do hiring through cattle-calls (ie mass job fairs), and they only hire programmers from within.
Of course knowing how they lay off and re-higher every couple of months to a year - I am glad I didn't get to work for them.
LOL...
Leave it up to Michael Dell to go ahead and hire him..
http://www.ihatedell.net/
(picture on far right)....
Leave it up to Michael Dell to go ahead and hire him..
http://www.ihatedell.net/
(picture on far right)....
Dell hiring a disgruntled Apple employee will not get anywhere near iTunes or the success of the iPod,iPhone. It took many many years for iTunes to get as big as it did. Dell will not be anywhere near Apples success.
I am typing from a Dell right now. Can't wait to get the new Macbook next month. I am ready to chuck this thing off a building.
I might just do that too. Youtube myself throwing my old Dell PC off the SAN FRANCISCO GOLDEN GATE Bridge or something to that extent?
Then I'll email it to the media and Dell themselves. Here's what I think of you're crappy products mother F*****'s.
I am typing from a Dell right now. Can't wait to get the new Macbook next month. I am ready to chuck this thing off a building.
I might just do that too. Youtube myself throwing my old Dell PC off the SAN FRANCISCO GOLDEN GATE Bridge or something to that extent?
Then I'll email it to the media and Dell themselves. Here's what I think of you're crappy products mother F*****'s.
No wonder their computers are worthless, they use a retail corporation philosophy of expendable labor. It amazes me how seemingly intelligent people just can't seem to make good decisions when it matters.
Even IF Dell got its' hands on "trade secrets" from Apple, they would have it so screwed up by the time they go done making it work on Vista, it wouldn't matter. Apple has no competition on this, Dell still has to work in Vista.
I agree with your point. Unfortunately, many people resist change simply because it is. Dell might survive a bit longer just because people go there by default. Dell counts on this for a certain percentage of sales. I know several people that bought new dell's simply because the old one quit working; never even considering that the product should have lasted longer (than 18 MONTHS
). Companies like Dell create progressively shorter life-expectancies in computers, and people keep buying them. Thinking is an issue for a lot of people.
Funny enough, Dell was my last PC before switching to Apple four years ago. I do not miss it. This music thing will fail like most of their computers.
Dell can't even handle building PCs. How the hell is it going to manage this one? If they're having trouble in the PC market, they have no clue what's in store in the music industry.
So fix the capitalization? I think iTunes should treat spacing and capitalization differences as differences, rather than trying to lump them together. You've got all the tools you need to manage your library however you like.I'd be happy if they could list artists correctly, I know Apple can't, often doubling the same artist and having their recordings split due to a letter capitalisation.
I don't see why a depressive person should get a free ride. If he was depressed, and he was allowing that to affect his performance at the job, or that of others, then Jobs was well within his rights to reprimand or terminate him as appropriate. We definitely don't know how serious his problem wasor how Jobs reacted to itbut what he says in a money grab lawsuit is certainly not something we can trust.
No company should have to make accommodations for an employee's depression.
Like, a day or two before Apple's announcement of updated computers and iPods? LOL...
Sure, I'll forget the thousands spent on horrible Dell computers, and the abuse from their Customer Service Reps. Sure Michael Dell and Steve Ballmer - anything you say...
I did...
I'm embarrassed to admit it but I actually bought one last month, XPS 1530... the company I work for gets 20% discount, I had a coupon for an additional 10%, plus I hit the store on one of the "deal" days... either way, I got a pretty good deal but the craftsmanship doesn't come close to Apple's MBP. Anyway, it plays Crysis at all medium settings with a nice and steady frame rate... but, I did re-image the hard-drive... uninstalled Vista and put XP on it. I just realized how funny "X" "P" put together is... it's like a laughing face sticking its tongue out at the customer, courtesy of M$...
At the end of the day, I have a 17" Powerbook (got it right before the intel machines came out), does the job, but am not ready to upgrade to MBP yet. My MacPro does the "heavy lifting".
I'm embarrassed to admit it but I actually bought one last month, XPS 1530... the company I work for gets 20% discount, I had a coupon for an additional 10%, plus I hit the store on one of the "deal" days... either way, I got a pretty good deal but the craftsmanship doesn't come close to Apple's MBP. Anyway, it plays Crysis at all medium settings with a nice and steady frame rate... but, I did re-image the hard-drive... uninstalled Vista and put XP on it. I just realized how funny "X" "P" put together is... it's like a laughing face sticking its tongue out at the customer, courtesy of M$...
At the end of the day, I have a 17" Powerbook (got it right before the intel machines came out), does the job, but am not ready to upgrade to MBP yet. My MacPro does the "heavy lifting".