I just came back from Dell’s financial analyst meeting, and the firm is doing amazingly well. That wasn’t the way it was a few years ago when folks were calling for a shakeup at the top. Michael Dell, along with an excellent team, turned the firm around, and he kind of did it by channeling Steve Jobs. Last week, Steve Ballmer had to respond to calls for his ouster by arguing that no one matches his energy or conviction. Agreed — but clearly folks are questioning the quality of the job he is doing. The week ended with the release of a memo to RIM’s management from a RIM employee.
I don't see how Dell is anything like Apple: they make cheap pc's for the windows market, abandon Linux at the first opportunity, and have decent sales of pc's servers and networking gear to the enterprise market but only their pc's have made a dent in the consumer space. Versus Apple, who have explosive profits due to (overcharging for) their innovative, attractively-designed, market-leading notebooks and (extremely) overpriced desktop computers. Apple's phones and music players and tablets dominate in the marketplace; do you know anyone with a Dell Streak?
Since Michael Dell challenged Apple to sell their stock back to their customers, Apple has turned around to be a dominant player in consumer electronics, including some middling share of computer sales (bigger than HP, the largest pc seller, and thus bigger than Dell). Meanwhile Dell's stock has not shot up over $350 - it's currently $16.65. So your comparison doesn't hold up at all.
I don't see how can anybody praised STEVE JOBS. They are both Steve J. & Steve W are big thieves. They stole ideas from the originals such as XEROX PARC'S.
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Dell's Lesson for RIM and MS: Do It Steve Jobs' Way
Posted by: Rob Enderle July 4, 2011 05:00 AMI just came back from Dell’s financial analyst meeting, and the firm is doing amazingly well. That wasn’t the way it was a few years ago when folks were calling for a shakeup at the top. Michael Dell, along with an excellent team, turned the firm around, and he kind of did it by channeling Steve Jobs. Last week, Steve Ballmer had to respond to calls for his ouster by arguing that no one matches his energy or conviction. Agreed — but clearly folks are questioning the quality of the job he is doing. The week ended with the release of a memo to RIM’s management from a RIM employee.
Since Michael Dell challenged Apple to sell their stock back to their customers, Apple has turned around to be a dominant player in consumer electronics, including some middling share of computer sales (bigger than HP, the largest pc seller, and thus bigger than Dell). Meanwhile Dell's stock has not shot up over $350 - it's currently $16.65. So your comparison doesn't hold up at all.