Dan Poarch

Could a Dell/Apple Partnership Work?

Well, with all due respect, you need to be more aware of the Apple/Dell history. When asked in 1997 what he would do with Apple, he said, "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders." Admittedly, Apple was in a tough spot in 1997, but it had potential [clearly]. Perhaps this was just competitive bravado, but it's emblematic of his lack of vision.

As well, Dell makes horrible hardware. I could make a longer lasting PC with off-the-shelf electronics and LEGO bricks. They are nothing more than the market-leader in the consumer PC cul-du-sac. A feedback chamber of more oblique options, less quality, that features the overwhelming-website-a... Sorry to be so critical, but I'm convinced that the desktop market will collapse when it's discovered that the PC industry is in a self-destructive race to the bottom. This won't be good for any of us.

How Michael Dell could do anything for Apple, without licking Steve Jobs' boots first, I don't know. They are just plain incompatible. Even Steve's love of surprises isn't enough to tempt him, in my humble opinion.