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Dell's Perplexing Strategy

The Dell troll is full of dribble here.... Apple doesn't need to "overtake HP or Dell or IBM" to be successful... by all measures (product quality, customer satisfaction, OS, customer service and support, easy of use, PROFITABILITY, etc ) they are much more successful than any of these companies, and they have certainly have shown that you CAN make money with PC's.

So here's Dell: So we build Chevys (and not very well) and now we're going to try our hand in the Maserati market? This company is totally off its rocker. And at the price of the Adamo, it comes bundled with the magnificent (SIC) MSFT Vista to try to compete with Apple and OS X. Good luck and watch this stock continue to sputter.


On Mar 19 07:54 AM cloughg wrote:

> Question - I presume your stats only focus on the consumer market
> share and CPU share? 80% of Dells revenues come from business to
> business sales therefore I would expect a predominately consumer
> focused manufacturer such as apple to be streaks ahead in the consumer
> space.
>
> 2008 Stats for Dell's consumer only business - Notebook units grew
> 43% in 2008 while desktops units were down 18%. Dell grew Notebook
> units in the consumer space 1.9 times faster that the rate of the
> industry concluding that Dell is gaining market share in the consumer
> space.
>
> Overall stats (consumer & business sales) are: Apple sold 2,5million
> Macintosh® computers during quarter Q4 compared to Dell's 4.47 million
> units. Therefore despite Dells Q4 decline in market share share they
> still shipped nearly double the number of units that Apple shipped
> in Q4.
>
> In 2008, Hewlett-Packard Company accounted for 20% of Intels net
> revenue (17% in 2007) and Dell Inc. accounted for 18% of Intels net
> revenue (18% in 2007). No other customer accounted for more than
> 10% of Intels net revenue including apple.
>
> The Adamo notebook on its own is not about gaining market share for
> Dell, im sure Dell dont beleive that launching a single notebook
> will do this.
> What is it will do is re-enforce the brand and image change that
> Dell are attempting to make and will continue to make throught 2009.
>
>
> The Adamo is a consumer gimic. Consumers buy gimics as they are emotive
> buyers if Dell continue to drive innovative designs like this in
> the consumer space it will continue to change the perception about
> Dell in both the consumer and business markets which can only be
> a good thing.
>
> The real money for Hi Tech companys is in the large corps - Servers,
> Storage and services are where the big $$ sit. Not in shifting tin
> like PC's, notebooks into consumers etc - there is simply no margin
> in this area.
>
> Tell me one fortune 500 that runs on apple? None
>
> Thats why apple will never overtake Dell or HP or IBM the dont have
> crediability to play with the big boys in the market area which makes
> the real money

U.S. Companies Figure Prominently in Asia-Pacific's Top Brands of 2008 Survey

This is a clear indication of the tremendous potential for market growth for Apple once they start putting more resources into this region.