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Dell to Try to Take on Apple's Online Music Dominance?

Uh hello people! Competition is ALWAYS good. No matter how crappy it is! Microsoft's windows SUCKS because there is no one else to even come close in sales. So where is the urgency? The innovation? Exactly. There is none.

So i personally HOPE that dell does well. For one, it is Apple. They will not be beaten in the music market. All that we could see are lower prices, more deals, and more innovation in iTunes. All good things. And if dell fails!? They will be fine, they are second only to HP in the laptop market. (Not that we want them to do well... Haha)
 
Good competition is good (see amazon).
Bad competition just lowers the perceived value, by frustrating the consumer and screwing over the primary producers, this case the artists.

Just can't see Dell being good competition, I can see them just going after price and the way they are talking 'Freedom' they will be locking those tracks up tight in DRM or what ever new term the PR department signs off on.

Good Competition would offer something new to the market to generate new demand then use that to bargain better prices for all concerned.
 
Don't jump to conclusions about why old boy was fired based on what he says. Everybody wants to file suit when they are fired. It's an embarrasing thing. I've been fired twice in my life and both times I wanted to file suit. Of course that was the second stage. The first stage is wanting to blow-up the building. I'm sure that's run across his mind too. :)
 
Glideslope said:
You have that right. I do disagree with the Bi-Polar diagnosis. While there could be tendencies, IMO, he really fits the pattern of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, especially the lengths he has gone to to seek "revenge."

Dell is making a hug mistake giving this guy their money.
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This is obviously an observation made by someone with a limited understanding of how to diagnose using DSM-IV criteria. You cannot simply look at a few quotes and determine the exact nature of someone's "mental illness." Sure, you can make assumptions and your observation is as valid as a bipolar diagnosis (based on known information), but can you prove one over the other? As a side note, the DSM-IV (which is the "Bible" for psychology and psychiatry) is a political tool (developed by a board of mostly psychiatrists, who are MD's) designed to facilitate insurance reimbursement and implies that, in this case, bipolar disorder is treated the same as a broken arm. Obviously its' not, but that is how it is. Lumping individuals into diagnostic criteria makes us feel better about our own delusions of predictability; when in fact, people are substantially more complicated than any individual diagnosis. Be careful when you make posts like this, some of us do know what you are talking about.
 
zinging of music sounds a lot like....

pushing of data in MobileMe. but whatevs

It's always good for Dell to fail a little bit more in the public eye so that everyone can see how good Apple is. Why does Apple even need advertising? They have Dell to do it for them :D
 
wmw71190 said:
zinging of music sounds a lot like....

pushing of data in MobileMe. but whatevs

It's always good for Dell to fail a little bit more in the public eye so that everyone can see how good Apple is. Why does Apple even need advertising? They have Dell to do it for them :D
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well said, LOL
 
Dell must be almost insane to directly compete against Apple and well-entrenched MP3 player manufacturers like Creative and Sandisk, along with big names that successfully got into the market such as Sony and Samsung. :rolleyes:

That's why Amazon's MP3 downloader program works with iTunes and Windows Media Player 11.0, since that effectively serves almost the entire market for portable media players.
 
jazman said:
Don't jump to conclusions about why old boy was fired based on what he says. Everybody wants to file suit when they are fired. It's an embarrasing thing. I've been fired twice in my life and both times I wanted to file suit. Of course that was the second stage. The first stage is wanting to blow-up the building. I'm sure that's run across his mind too. :)
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I was fired from EDS in July, when they told me they were letting me go, I said "Yes! I'm free from Hell!" I never once thought about filing a lawsuit. I thought it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It gave me the excuse I needed to go back to college.

By the way, with competition all things get better. Advancement is only possible through competition.
 
Apple don't get lazy, please!

As usual Apple has to stay beyond bleeding edge. Innovation and forward thinking is expensive and more prone to failure.

Companies like Dell, Amazon and even Microsoft come in to a established marketplace and improve. They allow someone (Apple) to take risks and establish a market. Then they analyze the market and most importantly find faults and fix them. They will examine Apple's business plan and make small improvements.

Apple had a nightmare getting the RIAA and music companies to unify and produce itunes. Amazon came along later and got a better deal with the music industry. Amazon had insight and a better ecosystem to release DRM free music. Thanks to Apple the music companies and the RIAA were more comfortable with DRM free music, Amazon didn't innovate, they made small improvements.

Dell could very well have the next big idea, don't discount based on history ever.

hint, hint ... Apple make a untangling cord for the ipod/touch/phone ... do something with the cord.... I spend most of my time doing cord-management
 
BigHungry04 said:
I was fired from EDS in July, when they told me they were letting me go, I said "Yes! I'm free from Hell!" I never once thought about filing a lawsuit. I thought it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It gave me the excuse I needed to go back to college.

By the way, with competition all things get better. Advancement is only possible through competition.
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EDS is still around? I know a few people who went and worked for them in Tampa, Florida - Old Labcorp folks.....
 
shervieux said:
EDS is still around? I know a few people who went and worked for them in Tampa, Florida - Old Labcorp folks.....
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Yeah they're still around, at least for a couple more months. HP bought them in May, and the sale should be complete either this month or next month. Then EDS will be known as EDS, an HP Company.
 
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